Objectives: to explore the calendar; to give more practise in memorising the months. Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks and look at the months in Activity 1b. Explain that some months have 30 days and some have 31, and there is one which has even less than 30 days. Together with the pupils find a month among the months which has 30 days and write it in a relevant box. Do the same thing with the other boxes as well. After that have the pupils continue exploring the months and complete the boxes. When they finish, ask which month has less than 30 days and get the answer ‘February’.
Answer key:
Activity 4a Look and guess. Objectives: to raise awareness of the short forms of the months; to prepare for the next activity. Explain to the pupils that sometimes they may meet some short forms as shown in their Classbooks. They are the first three letters of the months so there should not be any problem to guess what short forms are for what months.
Answer Key:Dec — December; Sep — September; Mar —March; Jun — June; Aug — August; Oct — October; Jul — July; May — May; Apr — April; Jan — January; Nov — November; Feb — February
Optional Activity 4b Work in groups. Play “Write a month”. Objective: to consolidate months through having fun STEP 1: Divide the blackboard into 2 parts. Write the short forms of the months on the first part in the following order one below another: Jun Oct Sep Dec Aug Mar Jul Feb Apr Jan MayNov. Then write the following order on the second part: Nov Mar Feb Sep Dec Apr Aug Oct Jul May Jan Jun.
STEP 2: Divide the class into two groups. Have the pupils stay in two rows.
STEP 3: Explain that with your signal a representative from each group will come to the blackboard and write the full form of a month (for example, Aug — August). As soon as the representative finishes, the next pupil must hurry to write the full form of the next short form, etc. The group which finish writing the full forms quickly and with fewer mistakes will become the winner.
