Birthday Lesson
Happy Birthday
Shēng rì kuài lè
生 日 快 乐
This lesson was for Year 1, aged 5 and 6. The objective from the Framework for Languages was to take turns.
( http://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources/PrimaryFrench/KS2-framework-pt3.pdf )
0.3 Understand the convention of taking turns.
O.4 Copy language modelled by the teacher.
The children had already learnt how to count to 6 so were ready to turn their list into a sentence.
We practiced counting to 6 by passing a balloon around the circle, each child saying a number, counting to 6 and then starting again at 1.
I wanted them to learn how to ask and answer about their age.
(Sentences)
I broke down the question and got the children to repeat it by saying it to the person next them, behind them and to be silly, to the ceiling and up their own sleeve. After I found out who was aged 5 and who was 6, I did the same with the answer.
Then I had some volunteers practice the conversation with PaoPao the Panda Puppet.