1. English Story lesson
“The Enormous Turnip”

2. Designers: Jocelyn YEUNG(98592651) Nancy WONG(98785964) Melissa LEE(98677974)

3. Designers’ responsibility:
Jocelyn: Searching Information,Brain Storming, Design the grammar notes, Typing , Find books
Nancy:Searching Information , Design the vocabulary tasks and Pronoun’s note ,Brain Storming, Typing
Melissa: Searching Information, Design the background , Scanning story’s pictures, Brain Storming, Find Reference

4. This power-point is used for lecturing , supplement with worksheet.
Subject: English Language
( in reading lesson )
Target students: Primary One

5. Objectives:
1. Via reading the story , students can learn some simple vocabulary.
2. Students can also learn some grammatical structure, i.e. How to form the plural nouns
Pronoun ( he,she,it,they,we)
Simple Present Tense
3. Develop students’ interest in reading short story.

6. “The Enormous Turnip”
Author: Parkinson, Kathy

7. The man’s got a seed.
He goes in the garden
He put the seed in the ground.

8. The seed grows .
The man’s happy.

9. The seed grows and grows.
It’s a turnip.
The turnip’s big.
It’s very big.

10. The man very happy.
“It’s big.” he says.

11. He wants to eat the turnip. The man pulls the turnip.
The man’s hungry.
He wants to eat the turnip.
The man pulls the turnip.
The turnip doesn’t move.

12. The man sees the woman.
“ come and help” he says.

13. “Pull!” says
the woman.
The woman pulls
the man.
The man pulls
the turnip.

14. The turnip doesn’t move.
They see a boy.
“Come and help!”they said.

15. “Pull!” says the boy. The boys pulls the woman.
The woman pulls the man
The man pulls the turnip.
The turnip doesn’t move.

16. They see a girl.
“Come and help!”
they said.

17. “Pull!” says the boy.
The girl pulls the boy.
The boy pulls the woman.
The woman pulls the man.
He man pulls the turnip.

18. The turnip doesn’t move.

19. They see a dog.
“Come and help!” they say.

20. “Pulls” says the girl.
The dog pulls the girl.
The girl pulls the boy.
The boy pulls the woman.
The woman pulls the man.
He man pulls the turnip.
They pull and they pull.
The turnip doesn’t move.

21. They see the cat.
“Come and help” they say.

22. The turnip doesn’t move.
“Pulls!” says the man.
The cat pulls the dogs.
The dog pulls the girl.
The girl pulls the boy.
The boy pulls the woman.
The woman pulls the man.
He man pulls the turnip.
They pull and they pull and they pull.
The turnip doesn’t move.

23. They see a mouse. “Come and help!” they say.

24. “Pull!”says the woman. They pull and they pull and they pull……..
The mouse pulls the cat.
The dog pulls the girl.
The girl pulls the boy.
The woman pulls the man.
The man pulls the turnips.
They pull and they pull and they pull……..

25. “Yes”! “We’ve got the turnip!”, They say.
“We’ve got the enormous turnips!”

26. “Come and eat” says the woman. Hey eat the turnip. “It’s good .”
The end of the story.

27. Simple Present Tense E.g. He puts the seed in the ground.
describe habitual actions
E.g. He goes in the garden.
E.g. He puts the seed in the ground.
talk about present states
E.g. The man sees the woman.
E.g. They see a boy.

28. express interests, feelings and opinions
express simple truths
E.g. The seed grows and grows.
E.g. The sun rises from the East.
express interests, feelings and
opinions
E.g. The man is hungry.
E.g. He wants to eat the turnip.

29. make requests
E.g. “Come and Help!”
E.g. “Pull!”

30. Agreement: verbs agree with nouns

31. Task 1 -- Simple Present Tense
1. Alice __________(go) to school by bus.
2.__________(come) and __________(join) us!
3. I __________(like) Leon Lai.
4. The water ________(boil) at 100 Celsius.
5. Peter _________(be) a doctor.
6. The lemon __________(be) sour.
7. Please ___________(give) me a ruler.
8. I ___________(brush) my teeth everyday.
Click the pink button for answer.

32. How to make nouns plural?
In general, we add “~s” to make most nouns plural
Type 1:
+ “~s” eg. car-->cars
book-->books
turnip-->turnips

33. + “~es” eg. Church-->churches box-->boxes match-->matches
Type 2:
+ “~es” eg. Church-->churches
box-->boxes
match-->matches
glass-->glasses
brush-->brushes

34. Type 3: Special case eg. man-->men woman-->women
goose-->geese
mouse-->mice
sheep-->sheep

35. dog ________ butterfly ________ horse ________ duck ________
Task 2: change them to plural
dog ________
butterfly ________
horse ________
duck ________
cow _________
Click the blue button for Answer.

36. __________ cats __________ sheep __________ mice __________ hens
Task 3: Change them to singular
__________ cats
__________ sheep
__________ mice
__________ hens
__________ women
Click the blue button for Answer.

37. Task 4: Divide the following words into different parts of speeches
Task 4: Divide the following words into different parts of speeches. Put the verbs in the left and the nouns in the right.
turnip, man, woman, garden, ground, eat, mouse, grow, mouse, seed,pull,say,come,move
Click here for Answer

38. Story’s Vocabulary:

40. Click the picture for Answer.
Task 5:Vocabulary
P_ l _ ( verb)
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41. Click the picture for Answer.
g_ r _ e _( Noun)
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42. Click the picture for Answer.
t _ r _ _ ps ( Noun)
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43. Click the picture for Answer.
M_v_ ( Verb)
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44. Click the picture for Answer.
M_u_e (Noun)
Click the picture for Answer.

45. Task 6: What is the pronoun for the
following nouns?
fireman
man
elephant and horse
Ann and I
turnip
mother
Click the square for Answer!
brothers
farmers
sister
mice
garden
Peter and May

46. That’s the end of the lesson.
Congratulations !!!
Thank You.

47. Link Materials

48. He

49. It

50. She

51. They

52. We

53. 1. Goes
( Habitual Action-->Alice -- She --> +“es” if “I” or “They/We/ You”--> Go

54. 2.Come and join
(Request --> Simple Present Tense )

55. 3. Like
(Interest --> I--> like
if she/he --> likes)

56. 4. Boils
(Simple truth--> water --> it--> +”s”)

57. 5. is ( Present State--> Peter --> he--> is
if “I” --> “am”, if “you/they/we” --> “are”)

58. 6. is
( Simple Truth--> Lemon--> it--> is)

59. 7. Give
(Request --> Simple Present Tense)

60. 8. Brush
(Habitual Action--> I--> Brush if “She/He” --> +”es”; if “They/We/You”--> “Brush”)

61. garden

62. Mouse

63. Move

64. pull

65. Turnips

66. Butterflies

67. Cat

68. Cows

69. DOGS

70. Ducks

71. Hen

72. Horses

73. Mouse

74. Sheep

75. Left hand side: Nouns Right hand side: Verbs turnip man woman ground
seed
mouse
Right hand side: Verbs
pull
grow
eat
say
come
move

76. Woman