Book- Title

Shake body parts. (Pre teaching activity)

• Age: 6 years
• Organization: The whole class will form a circle and the teacher will take part in this circle as any other pupil.
• Aims: To listen and repeat a song that would be sung by the teacher; to develop concentration and pay attention.
• Language focus: body parts.
• Materials: Our own bodies.
• Procedure: The teacher from his place will start singing a song that repeats different parts of the body, children have to follow the rhythm of the song and repeat what teacher are saying while they’re dancing.

Example of the song:

·       Teacher will start by touching a part of his body, for example his head. Then will ask to the children what is the name of that body part. When they answer teacher will start the song:

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your head x4 (Moving his head will singing).

Children would repeat at the same time, keeping the names of the body parts. Then the song will continue with other body parts:

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your shoulders x4

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your knees x4

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your arms x4

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your belly x2

To finish the activity the last part of the song is to shake all the body.   

v  A link that shows how it works with real children:

Touch and go

• Age: 6 years
• Organization: whole class.
• Aims: To visualize and identify different words of a specific vocabulary to make children’s grammar wider.
• Language focus: body parts.
• Materials: flash cards and a wall.
• Procedure:

The teacher will put in a wall various flashcards. This is a game where all children play. The flash cards will put in a horizontal row. Children play in alternative turns and there is always two pupils playing, one will be in the beggining of the row an the other one in the end.

They have to say loud the name of the body part showed on the flashcard. Then pass to the next lashcard and do the same thing. This will be repeated successively until both children will be on the same flash card.

When that happens, they will play "Rock - scissors - paper" game. The one who wins stays on the row and continue with the next flashcard and the one who loses leave the row and let other one enter on in it.

This is the game process, is very useful to meamorize and link images with words, improving their vocabulary.

v  A link that shows how it works with real children class: