1. Laboratorio di lingua inglese 3
Listen and make

2. Prepare for ‘Listen and make’ activities
Before the lesson:
Prepare what to tell the class about the topic or theme
Collect the things you need so you can show children what to do
Practise explaining in English what they have to make and how they have to make it, phrases that will be useful while they are making it
Think of gestures and actions that will help them understand more clearly

3. There are many things that children can make in class:
they can colour, draw,make models out of modelling clay, plasticine, paper, or card
They can make things for special occasion (e.g. greeting cards)
→ Celebrate with children personal events (e.g. birthdays), festivals and special days (e.g. Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day)

4. Activity: Listen and colour
Before you start, make sure that everybody has the materials they will need:
Colours: paint, crayons, coloured pencils, felt tips.
First do some ‘Listen and identify’ activities to:
Revise the colours
Revise vocabulary for the things they will colour.
Explain the activity at least twice
Ask the children help you organize the classroom/ give out the materials.
As the children are working, speak to them individually
Comment positively (in English) on each child’s work
At the end, display all the children’s work on the walls.

5. Listen and colour
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6. Listen and colour Make the activity more challenging:
give out two pictures, one of a girl and one of a boy, and give two instructions at a time, e.g. Colour his hair brown and her hair black, etc.
give children alternatives, e.g. Colour his hair either red or yellow.
divide the class in two and give different instructions to each group.
Later use these pairs of different pictures for games like “Spot the difference”

7. “Monster differences”
Colour your monster’s head, hands, teeth and eyes.
Use only green, blue and red
Colour your monster’s head, hands, teeth and eyes.
Use only orange, yellow and brown
Monster differences In S. Ioannou-Georgiou & P. Pavlou Assessing Young Learners Oxford university press pp 49-51; 149
Monster differences In S. Ioannou-Georgiou & P. Pavlou Assessing Young Learners Oxford university press pp 49-51; 149

8. How to set up 'Listen and make' activities
Remember that a listen and make lesson in English is an English Lesson, not an art lesson
Introduce the topic by talking a bit about it.
Use English as much as possible to explain to the children what they are going to do or make.
Use gestures and actions to help them understand.
Repeat your instructions at least once
While they are colouring or making, go round the class and comment (in English) on what they are doing.

9. Language focus

10. Language focus

11. Language focus Some phrases that are useful for describing pictures:
on the left
in the middle-a bit to the left
in the corner, at the front
at the top of the tree
at the back
next to the tree
right at the front of the picture
behind the tree
In the background, far away
under the tree
at the front
in the corner, at the back
in front of the tree
on the right
in the middle - a bit to the right
by the bus stop

12. Listen and draw
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13. Listen and draw Teaching tips
After they have finished drawing, let the children compare their pictures and then colour them in.
Go round and talk to them in English as they are colouring in, and comment on their work like this:
Ah, Sara, so you have coloured your birds red and green, like parrots. Very pretty... Mmmm.
That's a nice green tree, Pietro... but where’s your cat? Oh, I see him, hiding behind the tree.

14. Listen and draw Monster drawing game
teacher: OK, everyone's ready... well, almost. Now, let's see. Here are the pictures on the board. OK, in a line like this,we havea nose.a body,a head,an eye,a foot, an arm, a hand, an ear, a leg,a mouth.And you areinthree teams, team A,team B.team C. And we will all count. OK?
OK, OK.This group is the first group. So let's begin.Take out the dice. OK, Laura you throw the dice foryour team.
Right, five. OK, let's count together. One,two,three,four,five,OK. Five is foot. So everyone draw a foot. OKJust draw a foot. OK...
OK, this team now. OK, so throw the dice OK... four... OK, continue. One,two,three,four... a leg.
OK, it's a leg. So, now you draw a leg. Right.
So now we've got a foot and a leg. OK, is there a mistake? Now only one foot and only one leg-fantastic!
OK.Good David.Only one legand one foot.
OK, this team,team A!
Takethe dice and throw it. Not at me! Come on!
OK, what have you got?
Juan with eight to nine year olds.