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Smiles 3 Celebrate

This document provides teaching notes for a lesson about Halloween. It includes: 1) An activity to introduce Halloween by showing pictures and discussing costumes, sweets, pumpkin lanterns, and trick-or-treating. 2) A song for students to listen to and sing about Halloween. 3) An ending activity where students make Halloween mobiles by drawing and cutting out pictures to attach to coat hangers. The lesson introduces vocabulary related to Halloween traditions and encourages students to discuss how Halloween is celebrated in different cultures. It incorporates listening, singing, drawing, and craft activities.
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Smiles 3 Celebrate

This document provides teaching notes for a lesson about Halloween. It includes: 1) An activity to introduce Halloween by showing pictures and discussing costumes, sweets, pumpkin lanterns, and trick-or-treating. 2) A song for students to listen to and sing about Halloween. 3) An ending activity where students make Halloween mobiles by drawing and cutting out pictures to attach to coat hangers. The lesson introduces vocabulary related to Halloween traditions and encourages students to discuss how Halloween is celebrated in different cultures. It incorporates listening, singing, drawing, and craft activities.
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Let’s Celebrate!

3 (Teacher’s Notes)
Happy Halloween! Extension (optional)
Aims
To talk about Halloween; to sing a Halloween Write the following incomplete sentences on the
song. board. Allow the pupils some time to read the texts
Language focus silently and complete the sentences. Check the
 Happy Halloween! Trick or treat! pupils’ answers.

Target vocabulary
1 It’s Halloween. Look at my ______________!
 sweets, pumpkin, lantern
2 These are my Halloween ______________ .
Extra materials Yummy!
 Pictures showing Halloween celebrations for 3 This is a Halloween __________________ .
the Beginning the Lesson activity It’s a pumpkin.
 Photocopies of the Halloween templates, one
set per pupil (p. 119) for the Ending the Answer key
Lesson activity.
1 costume 2 sweets 3 lantern

BEGINNING THE LESSON 2 How many cats? Count and say.


(An activity to present the topic of the lesson.) Explain the activity. Allow the pupils some time to
find and circle the cats. Then count the cats as a
class.
Before going into class
Answer Key
Find some pictures showing Halloween
celebrations from magazines or on the 14
Internet.
Write Happy Halloween on the board. Tell the pupils
3 Let’s sing! (Track 55 CD2)
that Halloween is celebrated in the UK and USA on Mime knocking on a door and say: Knock, knock!
the 31st of October. Show the pupils the pictures and Trick or Treat! The pupils repeat after you. Follow the
explain to them, in L1 if necessary, that children same procedure and present the rest of the song.
usually wear scary costumes. They usually carry a
pumpkin lantern with them and knock on people’s Play the CD. The pupils listen and follow in their
doors saying “Trick or Treat”! If the people say “trick”, books. Divide the pupils into two groups and assign a
then the children can do something mischievous. If verse to each group. Play the CD again for the pupils
they say “treat”, then the children get sweets. Do to sing the assigned verses. Time permitting, play the
they have anything similar in their own country? song again for the pupils to repeat the song as a
When do they celebrate it? What do they usually class.
do/wear? Have a class discussion, in L1 if
necessary.
ENDING THE LESSON
(An activity to consolidate the language of the lesson.)
1 Listen and read. (Track 54 CD2)
Explain to the pupils that they will be making a
Refer the pupils to the pictures and elicit words such Halloween mobile.
as costume, pumpkin, lantern, sweets. Play the CD.
The pupils listen and follow in their books. Material needed

Piece of paper
String
Stapler
Coat hangers

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Let’s Celebrate! 3 (Teacher’s Notes)

Ask the pupils to think of and draw pictures of things


they associate with Halloween, e.g. pumpkin, scary
costumes, ghosts, skeletons, lanterns, sweets, etc.
They draw each picture on a separate piece of
paper, colour it and cut it out. Then help them staple
strings onto the pictures and tie the strings onto their
coat hangers. Alternatively, photocopy the templates
on the next page and hand them out to the pupils.

Encourage the pupils to leave the classroom by


saying Happy Halloween!

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Let’s Celebrate! 3 (Teacher’s Notes)

Happy New Year! Ask some pupils to read the words. Elicit what
numbers they rhyme with. Allow the pupils some time
Aims
to complete the activity. Play the CD. The pupils
To talk about New Year; to sing a New Year
listen and check their answers. Play the CD again
song.
with pauses for the pupils to repeat, chorally and/or
Language focus individually. During this stage present/elicit any
 Happy New Year! unknown words. Finally, ask individual pupils to read
the text out loud.
Target vocabulary
 hold hands, fireworks
Answer Key
Extra materials
 Photocopies of the New Year photo frame, 2 late 3 mix 4 door 5 new
one per pupil from p. 209 for the Ending the
Lesson activity. 2 Let’s sing! (Track 57 CD2)
Say: Every new year is for living! The pupils repeat
BEGINNING THE LESSON after you. Repeat with the rest of the song. Play the
CD. The pupils listen and follow in their books. Play
Say as you write on the board: Happy New Year! the CD again and encourage the pupils to sing along.
Encourage the pupils to repeat after you. Ask the
pupils to tell you, in L1 if necessary, words that come
3 Make a Happy New Year badge!
to their mind when they think of this celebration and
write them on the board. During this stage Show the pupils the examples and explain the
present/elicit words such as fireworks and hold activity. The pupils design their own badges on
hands. pieces of paper. If you wish, you can write some New
Year wishes on the board for the pupils to copy. Go
1 New Year Countdown! Find the words around the classroom, providing any necessary help.
that rhyme with the numbers. Then Upon completion, the pupils can use safety pins and
listen and check. (Track 56 CD2) wear their badges and go around wishing one
another Happy New Year!
Explain the activity. Explain to the pupils what a
countdown is. Revise numbers 1 to 10 and write
them on the board. If you wish, elicit words that
rhyme with the numbers.
ENDING THE LESSON
CRAFTWORK
e.g. one: fun, sun, run
two: blue, new, do, you Before going into class
three: bee, me, three Have the photocopies of the New Year photo
four: door, more, floor frame, one per pupil, ready to use.
five: drive, alive, dive
six: mix, fix, tricks
Hand out the photocopies of the New Year photo
seven: heaven, eleven
frame. Ask the pupils to colour and cut it out. Once
eight: gate, late, hate, plate
they have finished, tell them to take it home and use
nine: fine, line, shine
it to stick on it a family photo. As an extension, you
ten: pen, again, men, then
can create a classroom New Year photo.

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Let’s Celebrate! 3 (Teacher’s Notes)

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Let’s Celebrate! 3 (Teacher’s Notes)

10 Pupils go forward two squares.


Happy Easter! 11 lamb
Aims 12 Sunday
To talk about Easter; to play an Easter game;
13 Pupils go back to Start.
to sing an Easter song.
14 flowers
Language focus 15 Pupils go back one square.
 Happy Easter! 16 Pupils draw an extra egg in their basket.
17 basket
Target vocabulary
18 Pupils go back one square.
 bunny, chocolate egg, hot cross bun, spring,
19 bonnet
chick, lamb, basket, bonnet

Extra materials 2 Let’s sing! (Track 58 CD2)


 Photocopies of the Easter bunny template,
one per pupil for the Ending the Lesson Draw a simple sketch of a hot cross bun on the
activity. board. Point to it and say: hot cross buns. Have the
pupils repeat after you. Then say: One a penny, two
a penny, hot cross buns. Have the pupils repeat after
BEGINNING THE LESSON you. Follow the same procedure and present the rest
of the song.
Play the song from Ex. 2 (Track 00 CD0) as the
pupils are arriving. Greet them with Happy Easter! Play the CD. The pupils listen to the song. Divide the
pupils into two groups and assign a verse to each
Write the word Easter on the board. Ask the pupils to
group. Play the song again for the pupils to sing their
tell you, in L1 if necessary, words that come to their
assigned verses. Time permitting, play the song a
mind when they think of this celebration and write
third time for the pupils to sing the song as a class.
them on the board. During this stage present/elicit
words such as bunny, egg, basket, chick, flowers,
chocolate, lamb, spring, bonnet, Easter Sunday, hot ENDING THE LESSON
cross bun.
CRAFTWORK
Before going into class
1 Let’s play!
Have the photocopies of the Easter bunny
Explain the game. The pupils work in pairs or in templates, one per pupil, ready to use. Have
groups/teams. They take turns to throw the dice and some string ready to use.
move around the board game. When they land on a
square with a picture, they have to circle the right
word. If they are right, then they draw an egg in the
basket. If not, they go back to the start. The winner is
the pupil who has collected the most eggs.

Answer Key

1 Pupils go forward one square.


2 bunny
3 eggs
4 buns
5 Pupils draw an extra egg in their basket.
6 spring Hand out the photocopies to the pupils. Ask them to
7 Pupils go forward two squares. colour and cut them out. With the pencil, help the
8 Pupils draw an extra egg in their basket. pupils to punch a hole through the middle of each
9 chicks bunny just below the head.

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Let’s Celebrate! 3 (Teacher’s Notes)

Thread a piece of string through the hole in each


rabbit. Ask the pupils to tie one end of each string to
the leg of their desk, just high enough so that the
rabbit's legs touch the floor. Then they back up,
taking the rabbits with them, to the end of the string.
The pupils stand the rabbits up, making them lean
toward the desk a little.

Explain to the pupils that when they jerk the string,


the rabbits will ‘walk’ toward the desk. (Bunnies walk
best on smooth floor or low carpet.)

Have a bunny race! The first Easter bunny to reach


the desk wins!

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