Lesson plan based on Minecraft for EFL young learners

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Minecraft ​there is / there are​presentation lesson plan
age: 8-10
1
Clarify (and drill) what the following things are:
creeper
villager
ender dragon
zombie
TNT block
pickaxe
spider
chicken
Here’s a little help:
(If you have no idea, all the better. Someone in your class will be more than ready to teach you. If
not, there’s Google.)
2
Hand out the handouts (p. 3-4). Copy the table on the whiteboard.
Ask them how many of each of the Minecraft items in the list there are in the pictures. The numbers
are to be written in the “How many?” column of the table. (If you can afford it, ask them to colour
the items.)
Get a different colour marker and write the plural -s at the end of the plural items.
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Key:
creeper 4
villager 1
ender dragon 0
zombie 2
TNT block 18/a lot of
pickaxe 1
spider 1
chicken 1
3
Erase the list, let them re-write it by calling individuals to the board. (This is to check if they can
recall them and the -s.)
4
Focus on the is/are part. Hold up one finger, say ‘finger’. Hold up three fingers to present ‘fingerS’.
Do this a couple of times and elicit finger vs. fingerS. Hold up one marker, say ‘There IS a marker.’
Hold up two markers, say ‘There ARE two markers.’ Drill this a bit too.
5
Fill in the IS/ARE part of the table together. Conclude that ‘There ISN’T an ederdragon.’
6
Erase any random row of the table. Ask your group to reconstruct it. Do 2-3 of them as a group, let
them do the rest (writing sentences) individually or in pairs. Check their sentences.
Follow up:
Write sentences about the collage (p. 5).
Apps used:
PicCollage, Minecraft Coloring
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IS or
ARE?
How
many?
There creeper
There villager
There ender dragon
There zombie
There TNT block
There pickaxe
There spider
There chicken
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