Lesson plan

Class: II grade

Overall Objective: Students will develop awareness of volunteerism and develop language related to cleaning up (clean up; pick up; recycle; environment; rubbish; a recycle  bin; waste paper; a tin; water bottles)

Language Objective: students will use active verbs (clean up; pick up; recycle.) and new vocabulary (environment; rubbish; a recycle  bin; waste paper; a tin; water bottles)

Civic Education Objective: Students will develop awareness of volunteerism through a concrete example

Warm up: Teacher shows some pictures of water, flowers, birds, wood, trees with power point and asks them to say what they are and tells them everything around us is our environment and students repeat this word. (5mn)

Activity 1: Teacher shows the students a picture of rubbish, water bottles, tins, waste paper with power point (pictures with  names) and asks them what they are and helps them to learn these words in English.(10 mn)

Activity 2: There is some rubbish in the classroom: waste paper; tins; water bottles. Teacher indicates three recycle bins with the names of Waste paper; Tins; Water bottles and asks them to clean up the classroom, pick the rubbish and put it in its appropriate recycle bin. During this activity teacher asks the students what they are doing to learn the verb pick up and clean up. (10 mn)

Activity 3: Teacher distributes the papers with new words with missing vowels and asks them to fill the gaps. One example is done. (5mn)

Activity 4: Workshop “Recycle the Waste Paper”. Teacher distributes some waste colourful paper, glue, scissors and some material of  New Year’s tree and tells them they should make some things for New Year’s tree from these things. During the workshop teacher asks them what they are doing to learn the word recycle. At the end of the workshop students should make an exhibition of their works. (12 mn)

Homework: Teacher asks students to make a poster “Save Our Environment” at home and gives them some instructions. (3mn)