Class project to work on the story "The Smartest Giant in town"

2. THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
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For CS (Year 5) 1st
Term.
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Participants:
- Patti Arrom
- Núria Silanes
- Fran Arnau
- Conchi González

3. OBJECTIVES
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To review the name of some animals.
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To introduce new animals.
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To review clothes.
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To introduce the structures: “What's the
matter?” / “I wish I had...” / “Here you are!”.
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To introduce the superlatives (Year 6).
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To foster values: sharing and being grateful.

4. SESSION 1
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Before activities:
- Predicting what the story is about,
showing ss the cover.
- Revision and classification of animals
(jungle and farm).
- Magic Box (belt, shirt, socks, shoes,
trousers, tie, gown).

5. SESSION 1
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While activities:
- Reading the story by...
- predicting which animals and clothes are
going to appear (stop reading the story
before the third animal).
- singing the song with the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0whQAknJgE
(minute 2'10”-2'30”).
- introducing orally the “I wish I had ...”
structure.

6. SESSION 1
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After activity:
- Matching and filling in activity on the
blackboard (animal-clothes-solution).
T _ _ (changes into a ...)

7. SESSION 2
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Before activities:
- Review the clothes and animals vocabulary
from the song, giving flashcards to ss and
matching them up in pairs.
- Elicit the last word of different
sentences from the song.

8. SESSION 2
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While activity:
- Retell the story using the video
- http://youtu.be/_S2Y-z0jzWw
- http://youtu.be/k0whQAknJgE

9. SESSION 2
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After activities:
- Oral practice of the “I wish I had...”
structure, and poster display with their
wishes afterwads.
- Writing activity (2 stages):
- change clothes from the “thank you note”.
- invent a new rhyme.

11. FINAL TASK
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Role play a part of the story to practice the
structures:
- What's the matter?
- It's my ... I wish I had ...
- Here you are!

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