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Five-minute activities for young learners / Penny McKay and Jenni Guse.
p. cm. (Cambridge handbooks for language teachers)
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Introduction 1

1 Animals 9
1.1 What animals do you know? (*) 9
1.2 Describing well-known animals (*) 10
1.3 Animals moving about (*) 11
1.4 Animal rhythms (*) 12
1.5 Singing about animals (*) 13
1.6 Writing an animal Haiku (*) 14
1.7 Wild animals (**) 15
1.8 What animal am I? (**) 17
1.9 Guess the animal in 20 questions (**) 18
1.10 Personal animal recount (**) 19
1.11 Animal raps (**) 20
1.12 Animal habitats (**) 21
1.13 Animal information report (***) 23
1.14 Human attributes of animals (***) 24
1.15 Animal advertisements (***) 25
1.16 Animal conversations (***) 27
1.17 Animal escape (***) 28
1.18 Which dog has a better life? (***) 29

2 Journeys 31
2.1 A beach holiday (*) 31
2.2 Describing what we can do on a beach holiday (*) 32
2.3 Types of transport (*) 33
2.4 Transport: odd one out (*) 34
2.5 A travel sociogram (*) 35
2.6 A beach holiday checklist (*) 37
2.7 Travelling to school (**) 38
2.8 About the weather (**) 39
2.9 Advice for a visitor (**) 41
2.10 How do you come to school? (**) 43

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2.11 Guess the local place (**) 44

2.12 Writing a late note for the teacher (**) 45
2.13 Travel diary from space (***) 46
2.14 Singing about journeys (***) 47
2.15 UFO (***) 48
2.16 Science ction (***) 49
2.17 Holidays in space (***) 50
2.18 About Mars (***) 52

3 Fantasy and adventure 54

3.1 The king and the dragon (*) 54
3.2 The pirate (*) 56
3.3 Adventurers and heroes (*) 57
3.4 Witchs magic potion (*) 58
3.5 Good king bad king (*) 60
3.6 Draw a dinosaur (*) 61
3.7 Wizard interview (**) 63
3.8 Turned into a rabbit! (**) 64
3.9 Queens family (**) 65
3.10 Fairy tale people (**) 66
3.11 Contrasting fairies and witches (**) 67
3.12 Three wishes (**) 68
3.13 Jack and the beanstalk (***) 69
3.14 Goldilocks (***) 70
3.15 Fortune telling (***) 72
3.16 House of horrors (***) 73
3.17 The kings challenge (***) 75
3.18 Create a fantasy tale (***) 77

4 The world around us 78

4.1 Rivers of the world (*) 78
4.2 Map making (*) 79
4.3 Drawing my natural world (*) 80
4.4 North, south, east and west (*) 81
4.5 Geographical tongue twisters (*) 82
4.6 Sphere shapes (*) 83
4.7 New Year celebrations (**) 85
4.8 New Years Day emails (**) 86

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4.9 Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand (**) 87

4.10 Pinocchio: an Italian story (**) 89
4.11 Carnival in Brazil (**) 90
4.12 Popular Asian game (**) 91
4.13 Natural disasters (***) 92
4.14 Pompeii (***) 94
4.15 Safety guidelines (***) 95
4.16 Current affairs recount (***) 96
4.17 Earthquakes and oods (***) 97
4.18 Emergency procedures (***) 99

5 Healthy bodies 101

5.1 Grandma! What big eyes youve got! (*) 101
5.2 Callisthenics (*) 103
5.3 Create your own dance (*) 104
5.4 Healthy morning routine (*) 105
5.5 Staying clean and healthy (*) 106
5.6 Footprints (*) 107
5.7 Doctor! Doctor! (**) 108
5.8 Safety (**) 109
5.9 A healthy lifestyle (**) 111
5.10 Our feelings (**) 112
5.11 Absent from school (**) 113
5.12 Unhealthy activities (**) 114
5.13 The senses (***) 116
5.14 An accident (***) 117
5.15 Get well card (***) 118
5.16 Personal afrmations (***) 120
5.17 Healthy and unhealthy foods (***) 121
5.18 Food pyramid (***) 122

6 About me 124
6.1 My family (*) 124
6.2 My classroom (*) 125
6.3 My home (*) 127
6.4 My school books (*) 128
6.5 My free time (*) 129
6.6 My mums mobile phone (*) 130

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6.7 My friends (**) 131

6.8 My birthday party (**) 132
6.9 My school excursion (**) 134
6.10 My sporting skills (**) 135
6.11 My favourite TV show (**) 136
6.12 My favourite party game (**) 138
6.13 My computer class (***) 139
6.14 My mathematics class (***) 140
6.15 My science class (***) 142
6.16 My social education class (***) 143
6.17 My poetry class (***) 145
6.18 My music class (***) 146

Website appendix 148

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank their partners, Andy and Allan, for their
support during their teaching and more recently their writing. They would
like to give special thanks to Scott Thornbury for his expert guidance in the
shaping of the material in this book.

They would also like to thank Frances Amrani, Roslyn Henderson and
Hilary Ratcliff for their very expert and supportive editorial work.

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