My friends
Tasks and clusters of tasks
Greetings
l Learners identify their classmates in terms of size
l Learners play a recognition game
l Learners perform an action rhyme featuring adjectives of size
Language learning objectives
Functions
l Introducing oneself
l Identifying people
l Mentioning something for the first time
l Describing people
l Finding out a person’s identity
Language/Vocabulary
l Predicative adjectives: fat, thin, big, small, tall, short
l Wh-question: Who are you/is he/is she?
l Who is your friend?
l Pronoun: he, she, I’m/You’re … He’s/She’s …
l Nouns: boys, girls, mothers, teachers, babies, friend
l Definite article: a girl
Formulaic expressions
l Hello/Hi, …
Skills
Speaking
l Using modelled phrases to open and maintain an interaction by providing information in response to factual questions
Listening
l Identifying key words in an utterance by recognizing stress
l Locate specific information in response to simple questions