CONFIDENTIAL Copyright(C)Nagase Brothers Inc. February, 2012 Level P1 Lesson Intro1 Topic Introduction OBJECTIVES 1. Feel positive and comfortable about attending class. 2. Meet the teacher and other children in class. 3. Meet Sesame friends. 4. Become familiar with the class format. 5. Become familiar with English letters and sounds. 6. Be able to write own name. KEY VOCABULARY 1. Hi! 2. Hello. How are you? 3. Nice to meet you. 4. Character names (Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Ernie, Bert, Pink, and Blue) 5. name MEDIA I. Welcome Open Media: Sunny Day Media 1: Hello Song II. Chant and Learn Media 2: Chant III. Watch and Review Media 3: Sesame Friends Media 4: The Martians Media 5: The ABC’s Media 6: ABC Song Media 7: Write Your Name V. Goodbye Media 8: Goodbye Song PREPARATION 1. Flashcard set: A, a, apple MATERIALS 2. Character flashcards: Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Ernie, Bert, Pink, Blue, 3. Name tags (one per child) 4. Makers, Colored pencils, or crayons, (enough for all children) 5. A large sheet of white paper 6. A whiteboard 7. White paper (one sheet per child) I. WELCOME [10 min.] 1. Open Media: Sunny Day Play: Sunny Day Greet children Hi, (child’s name)! Welcome to our class. Let’s make our welcome board. (Prepare a large sheet of white paper on the wall, let children watch you write “Welcome to Class” on it, and invite children to spend a few minutes decorating it with markers, crayons, or colored pencils.) 2. Media 1: Hello Song Let’s all stand up and make a circle, please. (Encourage children to *Once everyone gets comfortable stand with you in a circle.) being in the classroom, guide Hello, everyone! Welcome to our English School! (Smile.) children to stand in a circle. My (Point to yourself.) name is [your name]. *You might put tape on the floor to Please call me [your name]. indicate where children should Can you say “Hello! [your name]”? (Wave, hold hand to ear, and stand, or arrange mats in a circle point to children to indicate that they should repeat after you.) and allow children to choose a mat Great job! Now, let’s say hello to each other! to sit on. Let’s say hello! Hello! (Hold hand to ear and point to children to *Join children in standing or sitting indicate that they should repeat after you. Shake a child’s hand. Point to in the circle. Children will be sitting one child and wave to the child.) and standing in the circle in every Hi, [child’s name]. (Point to that child’s nametag and encourage lesson, so try to keep the circle in a children to repeat what you say.) P1 Intro_Lesson 1_1 CONFIDENTIAL Copyright(C)Nagase Brothers Inc. February, 2012 familiar place. Let’s all say hi to [child’s name]. Hi, [child’s name]! (Encourage children to repeat.) Hello [child’s name]. (Encourage children to repeat after you.) (Go around the circle and repeat with each child so children know each other’s names and can say, “Hi, hello.” Children can also shake each other’s hands.) Great job! Now, are you ready to have some fun? (Encourage response, “Yes!”) Okay, everyone! We’re going to start today’s lesson by singing the “Hello Song” together! Let’s practice waving. When I say, “hello” (Wave to children.) you wave to me. Ready? In the song, Elmo will sing, “Hello.” Let’s wave to Elmo when he sings, “Hello,” to us. Here we go! *Lead children in singing the song. Play: Hello Song II. CHANT AND LEARN [10 min.] 1. Topic Intro Everyone, let’s sit down. In our group, every time we meet, we are going to learn English words. Today you will practice saying this. Listen. Nice to meet you! Can you say that with me? Nice to meet you. (Hold hand to ear and encourage children to repeat the phrase. Do this several times if necessary.) Great! When we meet someone new, (Shake one child’s hand) we say, “Nice to meet you.” (Go around to children and shake their hands as you say the phrase to each child. Encourage each child to repeat the phrase.) Let’s practice with your friends. Let’s stand up! Everyone turn to the child next to you and shake his or her hands and say “Nice to meet you.” (Encourage children to turn to each other and shake hands.) Great job! 2. Chant Intro Now we are going to say English words with music. Let’s practice, first. Please copy me. You (Point to children.) say (Point to mouth.) what I (Point to yourself.) say. Ready? I say “Hi! Hello!” You say… (Encourage children to say “Hi! Hello!”) Great job. I say “How are you?” You say… (Encourage children to say “How are you!”) I say “Nice to meet you?” You say… (Encourage children to say “Nice to meet you!”) Great job. Let’s do this with music P1 Intro_Lesson 1_2 CONFIDENTIAL Copyright(C)Nagase Brothers Inc. February, 2012 3. Media 2: Chant Play: Chant Say the words with music *Repeat this several times until Verse 1 children begin to feel comfortable Hi! Hello! (Wave to children.) with the phrases. (Children: Hi! Hello!) Verse 2 How are you? (Children: How are you?) Verse 3 Nice to meet you! (Shake a child’s hand.) (Children: Nice to meet you!) Great job. Everyone, let’s sit down! III. WATCH AND REVIEW [35 min.] 1. Media 3: Sesame Friends In this school, we will learn English with Sesame Street friends. Let’s watch our Sesame Street friends on our screen. Play: Sesame Friends 2. Activity 1 Let’s say hello to our Sesame Street friends. (Hold up each friend flashcard as you greet the friend.) This is Big Bird. (Show Big Bird flashcard.) Can we say it together? Big Bird. (Encourage children to repeat.) Let’s say hello to Big Bird. Hello, Big Bird. Nice to meet you, Big Bird. (Encourage children to repeat.) This is Ernie. (Show Ernie flashcard.) Can we say it together: Ernie? (Encourage children to repeat.) Hi, Ernie. Hello, Ernie. Nice to meet you, Ernie. (Encourage children to repeat.) This is Bert. (Show Bert flashcard) Can we say it together: Bert? (Encourage children to repeat.) Hi, Bert. Hello, Bert. Nice to meet you, Bert. (Encourage children to repeat.) This is Elmo. (Show Elmo flashcard.) Can we say it together: Elmo? (Encourage children to repeat.) Hi, Elmo. Hello, Elmo. Nice to meet you, Elmo. (Encourage children to repeat.) This is Zoe. (Show Zoe flashcard.) Can we say it together: Zoe? (Encourage children to repeat.) Hi, Zoe. Hello, Zoe. Nice to meet you, Zoe. (Encourage children to repeat.) This is Grover. (Show Grover flashcard.) Can we say it together: Grover? (Encourage children to repeat.) Hi, Grover. Hello, Grover. Nice to meet you, Grover. (Encourage children to repeat.) Now you know many Sesame Street friends’ name! Great job! P1 Intro_Lesson 1_3 CONFIDENTIAL Copyright(C)Nagase Brothers Inc. February, 2012 3. Media 4: The Martians We’ll meet two more friends, this year. This is Pink Martian. (Show Pink flashcard.) This is Blue Martian. (Show Blue flashcard.) Let’s watch Pink and Blue on our screen. Play: The Martians (C and G) Do you remember their names? (Hold up the character flashcards and encourage to say their names.) That’s right. This is Pink and this is Blue! They will take us to many adventurous places this year! It sounds really fun, doesn’t it? 4. Media 5: The ABC’s This year, Pink and Blue will tell us about wonders of letters and sounds. There are 26 letters in the alphabet. Letters. Can we say it together? Letters! (Encourage children to repeat.) Great! The letters go from A (Point to A flashcard.) all the way to Z. (Point to Z flashcard.) What letter do you see? (Point to A flashcard and encourage children to say, “A”) Yes, that’s an A. This is an uppercase A. (Point to A flashcard.) Say that with me uppercase A, uppercase A. Great. This is a lowercase a. (Point to a flashcard.) Say that with me, lowercase a. Great! Watch me trace an uppercase A. (Trace uppercase A on the flashcard.) Let’s write an Uppercase A in the air. (Encourage children to write an uppercase A in the air.) Great! Watch me trace a lowercase a. (Trace lowercase a on the flashcard.) Let’s write a lowercase a in the air. (Encourage children to write a lowercase a in the air.) Great! A makes /a/ sound. Uppercase A and lowercase a both make the /a/ sound like /a//a/apple. (Hold up an apple picture flashcard.) We will learn all about letters and sounds this year. Let’s watch all the letters on screen. Play: The ABC’s (Point out the colorful letters.) 5. Media 6: ABC Song Did you see all the 26 letters? Great! Now we are going to sing the alphabet song with our friend Telly! Let’s stand up! Play: ABC Song P1 Intro_Lesson 1_4 CONFIDENTIAL Copyright(C)Nagase Brothers Inc. February, 2012 Great job! Do you want to sing it one more time? (If children say yes, play the media one more time.) 6. Activity 2 Everyone, let’s sit down. (Write your name and children’s names on whiteboard) We sang about letters. Let’s talk about letters. These are our names. (Point to the names on whiteboard.) There are letters in our names. (Point to some letters and name them.) What’s your name? (Point to a child.) You say to me: My name is ___.