Newsletter- Summer 98

Skills

Story Contents ( The great treasure hunt )

Reading

·        Using the new words in different contexts

·        Describing the story process

·        Reading aloud short simple texts with fluency

·        Repeating new words and some short sentences

·        Understanding the concept of the story

·        Expressing ideas

·        Being able to read silently

·        Using board wall to improve students’ vocabulary knowledge

·        Offering answers when questions are asked during the story

·        Repeating and summarizing the story

·        Listening and identifying the story

·        Reading and talking about the story in groups

·        Discussing the story in class and sharing ideas with their friends

·        Taking part in group story telling

·        Retelling the story using several sentences

·        Making progress in reading skill by increasing reading speed

·        Being able to say the words’ definition and make sentences

·        Being able to guess the word definition through pantomime

·        Being able to give the words’ synonym or antonym

·        Being able to predict the incoming events of the story

Writing

Listening

Speaking

Vocabularies

The treasure hunt:

Research, switch on, dig, spade, and whisper, and look for, inside, odd, the same, what’s the matter? , hunt for, heavy, excited, terrific, the wood, reply and…..

Summer Festival

Jobs festival

 ( The students had to make some posters about jobs, wrote down related information regarding each job and talked about each of them)

For example:

·        Football player, nurse, vet, electrician, plumber, reporter, journalist, architect, exercise trainer and…..

·        Nurse: A special helper for doctors. She works in many places like hospital, doctor office, nursing homes,…

·         Journalist: A person who writes for newspaper, magazine or news websites….

                               Games

·        Pantomime the word

·        Guess the word

·        Role-play

·        Fast reading

·        Matching game (words and their synonyms or antonyms)

                               Extra activities

·        Making dictionary in the class