A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6

Description
This lesson plan has been designed to help students prepare for the A1 Movers Writing task – Part 6.
This lesson can be delivered face to face or online. You can use the lesson plan as a starting point
and create your own PowerPoint slides to support the lesson. If you are teaching with an online
platform, use the functionality available to you and that you feel comfortable using.

Students play a game to start thinking about useful vocabulary in the lesson. Students then listen to
the teacher reading some statements about a picture and must decide if they are true or false. They
then use these sentences as a model to correct the false statements. They then complete a similar
task to one found in the A1 Movers Reading and Writing exam.

Time required: 35-40 minutes (can be extended or shortened as required)

Materials  Prepared presentation/PowerPoint slides
required:  Student worksheet (see below)
 Link to cambridgeenglish.org Sample Papers
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/young-learners-
sample-papers-2018-vol1.pdf

Aims:  To revise vocabulary for colours, clothes and musical instruments

 To practise writing sentences
 To complete a similar task to A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6.

Procedure
Lesson Stages Online options
Welcome students – ask them to say hello to confirm they can see and hear If your platform allows you to
you. see your students, ask them
to also wave and check
everything is working as it
should be.
Warmer – Part 1: to expose students to vocabulary for clothes, colours and
musical instruments

You could use an online

Tell students that they are going to play the lists game. They will have 90
timer
seconds to think of as many words as they can on a specific topic. Set the
time for the first topic. When the time is up, ask students how many words they
wrote down. Start with the student who had the fewest and ask for their words,
then ask other students to add to the list and see how many words they can get Add words to your shared
in total, as a class. screen as you hear them so

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Do this for each category. students can see the list
growing.
1. Colours

2. Items of clothing

3. Musical Instruments

Part 2: Personalise the language: Once all students have the full lists, ask them Ask students to put their
to take a moment to think about their favourite thing in each category (favourite
colour, favourite instrument and favourite item of clothing). hands up if they want to
share their answers.
Ask if any students play any musical instruments.
Exposing students to sentence structure

Show students the picture (see materials below). Ask some very general Display the picture on your
questions such as: presentation slide or
whiteboard.
Where are the students?
What do you think they are doing?

Accept all suggestions.

Tell students they have 1 minute to look closely at the picture. When the timer Set an online timer.
is up, tell students you are going to say some statements about the picture, and
they have to decide if they are true or false.
Tell students to stand up but so they can still see the picture. Listen to the
statements. If the statement is TRUE, they WAVE to the camera; if the
statement is FALSE, they put their ARMS BY THEIR SIDES.

Read aloud to the students:

1. The girl with the black hair is drawing. (False)

2. The girl in the pink trousers is singing. (True)

3. The man in the blue jacket is wearing glasses. (True)

4. The boy at the back is playing the drums. (False)

5. The table is green. (False)

6. A girl is dancing. (True)

7. There is a red guitar (True)

8. There are five guitars in the picture. (False)

Reading and writing practice

Tell students they are going to practise writing sentences. Students have to
look at the sentences that were false and correct them. Students should write Students could write their

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the whole sentence. sentences by hand in their
notebooks, or they could
Do one together as an example: The girl with the black hair is drawing (The type their sentences into a
girl with the black hair is writing)
document to upload onto the
Answers: platform you are using.
The boy at the back is playing the piano.
The table is yellow.
There are two guitars in the picture.

Look and read and write (exam focus) – individual work Materials could be sent out
before the class to students’
Now, students are going to look at the same picture and answer some parents to print out OR
questions about it on their worksheet (see materials below).
students could type directly
This activity has been created as an example scaffolded exam task, moving into the word document if it’s
from responses at word level to writing short sentences. emailed or uploaded to the
Tell students that they can refer to the sentences in the previous activity to help platform for students to
them write their sentences. download.
Differentiation: Show the picture on
Weaker students can do sentences 1-4. Powerpoint or presentation
Stronger students can do sentences 1-6. slide as a visual support.

(You could do 2 questions at a time and bring students together for feedback If parents are at home and
between each stage of if you think students can work through all the questions sitting with their child during
alone, you can give them more time.) the lesson, you could
recommend they move away
from the computer to
complete this activity to have
a break from the screen.
This may not be possible for
all students.
Feedback/checking – whole class activity Have a prepared slide with
Nominate individuals to give their responses. (see Answer Key below) the key. Reveal answers one
by one.
You could ask students to
send their worksheets to you
to look at after the lesson in
more detail.
Homework/extension
Ask students to find a picture at home – this could be from a book, a magazine
from a website or anywhere! Tell students to write 4 sentences about the
picture where some of the sentences are true and some are false. In the next
lesson, students can share pictures and give their sentences to a partner to

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correct!

And/Or: Show students the Monkey Puzzles game on the Cambridge English
website : https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/games-
social/monkey-puzzles/
Encourage them to go on and play some games at home!

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A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6
Student worksheet
Look and read and write

Complete the sentences.

1. The boy singing on stage is wearing a purple …………………………………….. .
2. One bag is brown and one bag is …………………………..………………………….. .

Answer the questions.

3. What’s the girl in the pink trousers doing?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. .
4. Where is the drum?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. .

Now write two sentences about the picture.

5. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. .
6. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. .

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Answer Key
Complete the sentences.
1. The boy singing on stage is wearing a purple …………T-shirt / top……………..

2. One bag is brown and one bag is ……pink………..

Answer the questions.

3. What’s the girl in the pink trousers doing?

… Singing. / She is singing. / The girl is singing…. .

4. Where is the drum?

…..In front on the stage / by the stage / at the front on the stage…. .

Now write two sentences about the picture. (Accept any 2 sentences that are true)

5. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………. .

6. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. .