Unit 1 All about me

Activity 1b Write the order.
Objective: to enable pupils to put the months in order
STEP 1: Check the pupils’ knowledge of the order of the months by asking if there is anybody who can say the months in order in their mother tongue. Ask a pupil to say them. When s/he finishes, ask some more pupils to do the same.
STEP 2: Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks and look at the jumbled months. Explain that the order of the months in English is just the same as in the mother tongue: it also begins with January and ends with December. Then ask them to choose the month February among the jumbled ones and write the number 3 on it. Explain that this because February is the third month of the year. When you see everything is clear to everybody, say that they should go on in this manner until they have numbered all the months.
Activity 1c Check.
Objectives: to enable pupils to listen to check their answers; to practise the pronunciation of the new words
After the pupils finish numbering the months on the calendar, you can play the DVD and ask them to check their answers. Play the DVD the second and the third times. The pupils listen and repeat after the DVD. While repeating, draw the pupils’ attention to the correct stress in months that have more than one syllable as shown in bold type in the DVD script.
DVD: A typical calendar. The months and their sounds appear one by one in the correct order:
Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November,December.
Activity 2 Play “Say in order”.
Objective: to reinforce saying the months in order
This is a usual Chain Drill activity. You can organise it in pairs, rows or the whole class according to your choice. Pupil A says a month, Pupil B says the month next to that month in order.
Activity 3 Write the months in the boxes.