Unit 15 : Festivals

Language Focus: Reading

 

Chinese New Year also known as Lunar New Year is the most important holiday for the Chinese. It spans from the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and ends on the 15^th day; however, informal celebrations often start weeks before and ends weeks after. Vietnamese, Koreans, Taiwanese and other populations with which the Chinese have had extensive interaction or where there are large Chinese populations also celebrate the new year. Visits to friends and family are common. Elders give small red envelopes containing lucky money to children. New clothing is worn to signify a new year. The colour red is considered festive and lucky and is worn and displayed throughout the new year celebrations.

The reading worksheet for the reading comprehension is at this link. You may print it out.

http://www.schoolfamily.com/print-and-use-tools/document/977-chinese-new-year-reading-comprehension-worksheet

 

Click on this link for a very interesting Word Guessing Game about Chinese New Year. Year 2 children surely will like this game.

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/hangman/chinese-new-year

Unit 4 : Story Time

Language Focus: Reading

Gingerbread Man Poem

Once there was a gingerbread man,
Baking in a gingerbread pan.
Raisin eyes and a cherry nose,
Trimmed right down to his fingers and toes.
A gingerbread man in a gingerbread pan!

Here's the old woman who made him so sweet,
A treat for her and her husband to eat,
She made him with flour and sugar and eggs,
She gave him a face and two arms and two legs.
A gingerbread man in a gingerbread pan!

Now open the oven to see if he's done,
This gingerbread man, he know how to run.
Out of the oven and onto the floor,
Now run away out the kitchen door.
The gingerbread man, he's out of the pan!

Now chase him old woman, now chase him old man
Chase him, yes chase him as fast as you can!
Through the garden and out the gate,
Catch him right now, before it's too late.
The gingerbread man, he's out of the pan!

Along came a cow who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!

Along came a horse who wanted a snack
But the gingerbread man, he never looked back
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan! 

Along came a farmer who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan! 

Along came a dog who wanted a snack
But the gingerbread man, he never looked back
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!

Along came a hog who wanted a treat
And the gingerbread man, he looked good to eat
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
I'm the gingerbread man and I'm out of the pan!

Along came a fox who wanted a treat,
And this gingerbread man, he looked good to eat.
Jump on my back, my gingerbread pet,
And we'll cross the river, so you won't get wet
Mr. Gingerbread man, who's out of the pan!

There was no place to go, there was no place to run
And a ride on the river could be lots of fun!
So off with the fox did Gingerbread go
And what happened next, you already know
To the gingerbread man, who's out of the pan

That sly old fox had a de-lic-ious treat
And the old man and woman had nothing to eat
Not a bite was left for the cow or the dog,
The horse or the farmer or hungry old hog
There's no gingerbread man in or out of the pan!

So let us go home and get out the pan
And we'll make ourselves a new gingerbread man!
And when he is eaten, we'll make us some more
But this time we'll be certain to lock the back door!
A new gingerbread man, in a gingerbread pan!

After the poem is through, students are to arrange the story cards in the same order as in the story. Click the link below for the story card.

http://www.dltk-teach.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/c-sequencing.gif 

Unit 16 : What I like To Do

Language Focus: Writing

Pre-writing activity:

Students are to complete the table in the 1^st slide of the slide share below.

Sports worksheet from luz cotera


 

Students are guided to answer the questions and write the answers in a paragraph.

Eg.

        There are 6 students who can swim. Sharon and Abigail can play tennis. Jacky and Raymond can’t play basketball. None of us can ski as it doesn’t snow here in Malaysia.