Rosie's walk
By Pat Hutchins
This story is very useful for exercising prepositions of place: ACROSS,
AROUND, OVER, PAST, THROUGH, UNDER, BACK.
Procedure:
Pre-listening activities
Give students a picture of a farmyard - worksheet No1
-children draw different objects you tell them about or they suggest.
-Say: 'Draw a mill!' 'Draw a pond!' Meanwhile put flashcards on the board where there is a
sketch of a farmyard aas it is on their working sheet, too. Students draw mentioned
objects where they want to.
Listening
Sit on a story chair. Tell or read the story and while reading mime the movement of the
hen or show its walk on the board (a figure of it). Students listen and sit around you in
a circle.
Read or tell the story again. Now show them word cards with prepositions on them. Put
them on the board to the right place where Roeie actually walked.. Students write the
prepositions in their pictures, too. (UNDER the beehives…)
After-listening activities
- Give them flashcards ( you prepare yourself) of the story and they arrange them into the
right order according to the story.
- Give the figures of a hent and a fox to two students and they show the way of
Rosie's walk.
- Tell the story again and they join in with parts of it.
- Students work in pairs showing Rosie's walk in their pictures. They use prepositions of
place.
- Bingo - they play Bingo with pictures of the story and the words. - worksheet
No 2, worksheet No 3
Follow-up
- Show them pictures and they tell the story.
Square dance:
Take two partners and turn them around,
Join in the square, dance in the square
Now take them across and around again
Join in the square, dance in the square.
Commands: Introduce commands - stand up, go
through, pass, go around, go back to your seat.
Students draw a hen and a fox for their project work.
Prepared by Viljenka Šavli, Solkan Elementary School |