The enormous
turnip
Bulgaria , Sofia
2010
THE ENORMOUS
TURNIP
Contents
New words
Tale
Exercise
Characters
Dramatization
Methods
BULGARIAN FOLK TALE
PUPILS 7 – 8 YEARS OLD
PurposesDeveloping skills –
listening, speaking, reading.
Revision of language structures.
Introducing new vocabulary
ResultsTurning English into
means of communication
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THE ENORMOUS TURNIP
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION
COMPETENCE
ORAL COMPREHENSION Children can:
Understand the story
Understand “can” and “can’t”
Understand description about family and animals
Understand and follow a role-play situation.
Guess and say words by listening the spelling
ORAL INTERACTION
Children can:
Answer to questions about “The enormous turnip” story.
Participate in games using the language.
Use classroom language to communicate.
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE
ORAL PRODUCTION Children can:
Say the members of their family.
Say the animals
Say the colours.
Tell “The enormous turnip” story.
Describe the characters.
Describe a friend.
Introduce themselves.
WRITING PRODUCTION Children can:
Write short descriptions about the characters.
Fill speech bubbles in the pictures.
Fill gaps to complete words or texts about the topic.
Label colours, parts of the body, animals, members of the family.
WRITING RECEPTION Children can:
Read and understand “The enormous turnip” story.
Put in the right order scrambled sentences of the story.
Read and understand information given to choose the right answer
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
MATHEMATICALCOMPETENCE
Children can:
Count and sum up the characters.
Solve simple mathematical problems through counting the numbers of people and animals
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
SOCIAL AND CIVIC COMPETENCE Children can:
Collaborate with each other in groups.
Take care for the plants and animals.
LEARNING TO LEARN
Children can:
Sequence the story using different sequencing cards.
Use reading techniques to extract relevant information.
Memorize songs and poems about the topic.
KEY COMPETENCIES DESCRIPTORS
CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC COMPETENCE
Children can:
Participate in a role play about the story.
Perform songs and rhymes.
Use different artistic techniques to create pictures and books related to the story.
Listen and repeat . Play a tape and children repeat in small groups .
Role play .
For the next lesson – dramatization .
For homework – put in order the pictures in activity book .
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ActivitiesReminding the story.
Retelling in Bulgarian.Explain the new words:
enormous, turnip, pull out can’t move.
Listen and point. Children listen to the story and point to the pictures in the pupils book.
Name the characters: a girl, a dog, a cat, a mouse, grandparents.
We’ve got multimedia lesson and we can use it in class
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New words
can’t move – не се движи
enormous -огромна pull out -дърпам
turnip - ряпа
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read the story
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Colour. Write the correct numbers
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Colour. Write the correct numbers
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Colour. Write the correct numbers
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Characters
grandpa
grandma
girl dog
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play
play
play
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