This lesson plan is for a 1st grade class and focuses on teaching students about bees. Over two days, students will learn new vocabulary related to bees and their life cycle, practice pronunciation, and play games to reinforce the material. The plan includes reading and acting out a story about bees, watching educational videos, sequencing pictures from the story, identifying foods bees eat, and doing a role-play interview activity. The goals are for students to understand the story, recognize vocabulary, be aware of values in the story, and improve their English language skills.

1. 1st grade

2. Why?
• Interesting topic: bees
• Use of real English
• Develop four skills
• Meaningful story
• Improve communication
• Values

3. Learning objectives
• Language
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• Revision: colours, numbers, animals, food, actions..
• Introduction bee’s life
• New vocabulary ( nectar, flower, collect.. )
• Language: It’s… Do you like?, Yes, I do/No I don’t
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• Objectives
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• To listen and understand the story
• To read and write words
• To recognize, review and identify animals, colours, actions, food..
• To be aware of values in the story
• To listen and do a role-play
• To practice pronunciation
• To mime actions
• To play games ( memory, TPR)
• Cross-curricular content Science bee’s life

4. Lesson plan
1st day
• What’s in the box?
Students guess what it is in the box answering teacher’s questions.
• Storytime
Teacher reads the story. She makes students participate actively answering questions,
repeating and miming words.
• 4 corners TPR game
Teacher revises bee’s actions and students mime them. Students are divided in four
corners. Teacher says a number and an action, students who are in the corner, mime
the action. Teacher changes actions and students’ positions.

5. 2nd day
Videos
Students watch a video of the story and another about bee’s life. Teacher asks them
questions to revise vocabulary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw77rwV1LV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgolBIz50A
What‘s the matter bee?
Students sequence the pictures of the story and the key words.
What do bees eat?
Teacher sets written cards and pictures food on the board. Students identify the food
that bees eat. Also they match pictures with their names.
Role-play
Teacher revises the question structure: Do you like? and the answer Yes I do or No I
don’t.
Students are in pairs. One is the ant who asks and the other, the bee who answers
about food. They do a role-play.

6. Assessment
• Teacher’s observation
• Student’s participation,
• Role-play
• Use of English.