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3. Remembering activities

Helping children remember previous activities

To be incorporated into Lesson 2 of the Lesson 1 – 8 series.

REMEMBERING 1: Who can remember how to mime?
MATERIALS: Flashcards or realia from last lesson and one from the previous topic

As the focus of the first lesson is on listening, expecting all children to say the language
they encountered in lesson 2 would be unfair. So the focus is on getting the children to
remember the topic and the mimes they associate with the new language. Children may
call out the words and expressions in the common classroom language, so teachers may
need to recast what they say into English, e.g.
Teacher: [Shows a sunny flashcard]
Children: Cerah. Ia adalah cerah.
Teacher: Yes, it’s sunny! Can you say? It’s sunny! Show me the mime.

 Show a flashcard card from the last lesson and one from the previous topic, e.g.
weather and colours. Ask the children: In the last lesson did we look at the weather
or colours?
 Ask if they can remember any of the mines they learned. Show each flashcard and
say the words clearly. Have children repeat after you and remember the mime. It’s
sunny! Can you say? It’s sunny! Show me the mime.
 As you introduce the visuals, place them where all children can see
 When all visuals have been introduced, count them together, e.g. Six words! Let’s
see some more!
 Introduce a few more of the topic words, using the Circle Time 2 strategies.

Progression notes: Observe which children confidently imitate the mime, which repeat the target
language easily and which were able to remember and say the new topic words with little prompt.

To be incorporated into Lessons 3 and onwards

REMEMBERING 2: GAME – Who can remember how to say?
MATERIALS: Flashcards or realia from last lesson

As the focus of lessons 2 onwards will be on speaking, remembering time should focus
more and more on encouraging children to tell you what they remember.
 Hold the flashcards and encourage children to tell you what they remembered: Who can
remember the (weather) words?
 As they call out what they remember in English, show the associated flashcard and place it
where children can see it.
 When there is one flashcard left, ask children to look at the flashcards they have already
remembered. What’s missing?
 Once it has been remembered, praise the children for remembering all the language from
the last lesson.
 From here you can move into playing a game, e.g. What’s missing (see Circle Time 2)

Progression notes: Observe which children are able to remember language from a previous
session.

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