Susan Halliwell (II)

Listen and Make 

I have chosen an activity of Susan Halliwell called “Test your friends” to practice classroom language for listening and making activities. It belongs to group 1 ‘Get up and find out” of the book Teaching English in the Primary Classroom. Useful examples of this type of language:

- Asking for helpers or giving things out 

- Explaining and demonstrating

- Language for demonstration

For the activity indicated above we need a square of paper for each child and one for the teacher. The first she has to do is to demonstrate how to make a “fortune teller”. For this she has to use a language very simple and have the instructions children have to follow very clearly.

Example of teacher words;

- Now, watch carefully.
- Now, open it again.
- Next turn it round. Now fold it like this.
- Open it. Now, watch!
- Fold it like this, Press hard with your thumb. 

Once the fortune teller is made children have to choose eight numbers and write them on the flaps. Finally they have to make eight sums and write those under the flaps. They are ready to test their friends after the teachers’ example. 

You can have support in the white board if you think your students need it: