Herbert Puchta, Günter Gerngross & Peter Lewis-Jones
Primary Education
Lesson Programme 6
Introduction
Quick Minds 6 is a teaching method for English in the sixth year of Primary Education.
This Classroom Programme has been designed to deal with different school situations with regards to teaching hours for English. Its flexibility offers teachers sufficient material for classes with five hours or less per week and for those with more hours.
Quick Minds 6 has 9 units, one of which is introductory, Back to School. Units 1 to 8 are divided into eight sessions: sessions 1 to 6 are the unit's contents and their presentation while sessions 7 and 8 reinforce and enlarge on them, thus being optional and not altering the programme in general.
In addition to these nine units, Quick Minds 6offers three sessions connected with various celebrations in the English-speaking world: New Year’s Eve, Carnival and World Book Day. The method can be divided as follows in terms of time:
1st term: Units Back to School, 1 and 2; activities from New Year’s Eve.
2nd term: Units 3, 4 and 5, activities about Carnival.
3st term: Units 6, 7 and 8; Activities: World Book Day.
Each table in this classroom programme suggests how to make step-by-step use of the activities in the Pupil’s Book (or Student’s Book - SB) and in the Activity Book (or Workbook - WB) selected for each session. It also adds other features of Quick Minds 6connected with its contents. As well as the activities, general and specific objectives are shown, including skills, types of interaction, key competences learned and materials needed during the programme. The abbreviations used are:
Skills:
CO - Oral Comprehension
OE - Oral Expression
RC - Reading Comprehension
WE - Writing Expression
Interaction:
Ind - individual
P - in pairs
SG - small groups
LG - large group, the whole class
Competences
LC – Linguistic Communication
MSST - Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology
DC - Digital Skills
LL - Learning to Learn
SCS - Social and Civic Skills
SIE - Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurship
CCE - Cultural Conscience and Expressions
At the end of each session there is an optional extension activity which the teacher can use if there is time, giving priority to the activities which reinforce the structures, vocabulary and skills which most need to be.
In the Reinforcement-Extension column activities are added for different purposes:
1.Reinforcing parts of the unit which are not clear or which are difficult.
2.Giving pupils who learn slowly more chance to practice.
3.Allowing faster pupils to reinforce and extend their knowledge without getting bored.
El Teacher’s Resource Book (TRB) offers four Worksheets per unit; The pupils are included in this column. Worksheets 1-3 can be completed individually and, because of that, The pupils are useful for pupils who finish before others during sessions or as homework or classroom Revise in pairs or groups. Worksheet 4 is directly connected with cross-curricular contents (Learn and Think) or activities for developing linguistic skills. The four worksheets come with suggestions for follow-up activities to reinforce or extend practising these contents (see Teacher’s notes in each TRB unit).
Online Interactive Activities include various games videos and songs for each unit. These may be used as extensions in class or at home and a reinforcement column is included in the session in which the information needed to use them is taught.
The evaluation tables at the end of each unit state which activities in each session can be used to evaluate each of the the four skills separately bearing in mind the key competences. The teacher can use these and others to observe pupils' day-by-day progress or to evaluate the whole unit, although to do the latter we recommend using theProgress Tests for each unit included in theTeacher’s Resource Book. Alternatives about how to use these tests are specified below in each evaluation table and give the teacher the possibility of checking what pupils have learned in the short, medium and long term. This also enables pupils to revise concepts or ask for help with things The pupils need to improve on.
Unit Back to School. Lesson 1, SB and WB page 4 (Vocabulary presentation)Objectives:
-Revise ordinal numbers from 1 to 10.
-Remember the characters from Quick Minds.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Introduce the characters in Quick Minds 5. / - Dictate the letters of the names of the characters for the pupils to write them correctly. / OE / GG/Ind / LC / PB / Augmented reality: interactive activity vocabulary and online interactive activities.
Worksheet 1: First, second or third? (TRB, p. 7)
Lesson order / - Remember the adventures from Quick Minds 5.
- Practise the new vocabulary.
- Practice oral and written comprehension.
- Practice numbers 1 to 10. / - Presentation. Pupils look at the picture and remember the places which the characters visited last year.
- PB, p.4, Act 1. CD1, 02: Pupils look,listen and repeat the words. In pairs, pupils take it in turns to point at them and pronounce them.
- PB, p.4, Act 2. CD1, 03: Pupils listen to the CD, read the sentences, repeat them and correct them.
- PB, p. 4, Act 3: In pairs, one pupil says the name of a place which the characters have visited and his/her partner guesses the order they visited them in.
- AB, p. 4, Act 1. Pupils write the ordinal numbers for each cardinal number.
- AB, p. 4, Act 2:Pupils look at the drawings and complete the sentences using the correct number.
- AB, p. 4, Act 3: Pupils read the questions and reply with the ordinal number. / OC/RC/OE
OC/RC/OE
RC/OC/OE
OC/OE
WE
WE
RC/WE / LG
LG/P
Ind/GG
P
Ind
Ind
Ind / LC
LC
LC
LC/MSST
LC
LC/LL
LC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Revise ordinal numbers.
- Revise the lesson vocabulary / - Write events in the pupils' lives so that can describe them using ordinal numbers (a birthday, a race, the English class…).
- Extension (optional): Put 10 pupils in a row and say their names and positions. / OE/WE
OC/OE / LG
LG / LC/SCC
LC/MSST / Notebook
Unit Back to School. Lesson 2, SB and WB page 5 (Grammar 1)
Objectives:
-Teach and practise simple present and present continuous.
-Revise actions and activities.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise actions. / - Carry out actions with gestures. The pupils guess what it is. / OE / LG / LG / Augmented reality: Grammar 1 interactive activity and online interactive activities
Worksheet 2: What do they do? What are they doing? (TRB, p. 8)
Lesson order / - Teach the simple present and the present continuous.
- Practise the simple present and the present continuous.
- Discuss the grammar.
- Consolidate the grammar. / - Presentation. Act out two examples of (not) good at. Write the matching sentences on the board. Pupils act them out them.
- PB, p. 5, Act 1: Pupils read the text and point at the characters. Pupils say their names.
- PB, p.5, Act 2. CD1, 04. Grammar focus: Pupils listen to the CD and repeat together. Pupils practice in pairs. Read the PB examples, p. 83. Pupils do the exercise and compare in pairs. Correct.
- PB, p. 5, Act 3: In groups, pupils play at saying what the sentences ask for.
- AB, p.5, Act 1: Pupils fill in the table with the new grammar structures they have learned.
- AB, p. 5, Act 2: CD1, 05: Pupils listen and number the drawings. Pupils write the names for each drawing.
- AB, p.5, Act 3: Pupils read the sentences and circle the correct verb. / OC/RW
EO/RC/WE
OC/OE/RC/WE
OE
WE
LC
LC / LG
Ind/P/LG
GG/Ind/P
SG
Ind
Ind
Ind / LC
LC
LC
LC
LC
LC
LC/LL / PB
AB
CD1
Dice
End of the Lesson / - Practise the unit language.
- Practice written expression. / - Pupils play at guessing the character in AB Activity 2; their partners describe what the characters do.
- Extension (optional): Pupils make up and draw comic about a character and write sentences describing what they are doing. / OC
WE / LG
Ind / LC
LC / Notebook
Unit Back to School. Lesson 3, PB and AB p. 6 (Song)
Objectives:
-Consolidate the grammar structure learned in the previous lesson using a song: present continuous
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise the characters. / - Dictate incorrect statements about the characters in the scene of p. 5 of the PB. The pupils write them correctly. / OE/WE / Ind / LC / Augmented reality: a karaoke song and online interactive activities
Lesson order / - Sing a song.
- Practise oral expression.
- Practice written expression. / - PB, p. 6, Act 1. CD1, 06: Pupils listen and put the drawings in order. Pupils correct in pairs and as a group. Pupils listen to the song and read it. Correct. Check that pupils understand the meaning.
- PB, p.6, Act 2. CD1, 07: Pupils listen to the song repeating each line. Pupils practice as a group and continue with the karaoke version.
- PB, p.6, Act 3: Pupils play in pairs at describing a famous place and guessing it.
- AB, p. 6, Act 1: Pupils remember and link the sentences with the drawings.
- AB, p. 6, Act 2: Pupils read the sentences and complete them using the right word in the box.
- AB, p. 6, Act 3: Pupils write three sentences with their ideas about the places which the Time Travellers will visit this year. / OC/RC/WE
OE
RC/OE/OC
RC/OE
OC/OE/RC
RC/WE
WE / Ind/P/LG
LG/P
P
LG
Ind
Ind / LC
LC/CCE
LC
LC
LC
LC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Revise the song.
- Activate imagination. / - In 2 groups pupils sing the song in karaoke. Each group sings a verse.
- Extension (optional): Talk about the ideas the pupils have written down in AB activity 3. / OE
OC/OE / SG
LG / LC/CCE
LC
Unit Back to School. Lesson 4, SB and WB page 7 (Grammar 2)
Objectives:
-Present and practice ordinal numbers 11-31.
-Revise the days of the week and how to say dates.
-Revise how to use going to for plans for the future.
-Develop the ability to reason: developing mathematical logic.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise the days of the week. / - Write the names of the days of the week in no particular order. The pupils write them correctly in their notebooks. / WE / Ind / LC / Worksheet 3: What are they going to do? (TRB, p. 9)
Lesson order / - Revise how to say dates.
- Practise going to for plans for the future and ordinal numbers from 11 to 31.
- Discuss the grammar.
- Practise going to for plans for the future.
- Develop mathematical logic
- Personalise the language. / - Presentation. Write Phoebe's birthday on the board and explain how to say it.
- PB, p. 7, Act 1: Pupils read and reply individually, pupils compare in pairs and correct as a group.
- PB, p.7, Act 2. CD1, 08. Grammar focus: Pupils listen to the CD,repeat the sentences and practise them in pairs. Read the PB examples, p. 83. Pupils do the exercise and compare in pairs. Correct.
- PB, p. 7, Act 3: Pupils write planes for this month compare in pairs, following the example.
- AB, p.7, Act 1: Pupils write the dates in the table.
- AB, p. 7, Act 2 Think!: Pupils read and solve the problem connected with dates.
- AB, p.7, Act 3: Pupils write sentences about the character in the illustration's plans. / OC/RW
RC/WE
OC/OE/RC
RC/OE/OC
OC/RC/WE
RC/WE
WE / LG
Ind/P/LG
LG/Ind/P
P/LG
Ind
Ind
Ind / LC
LC
LC
LC
LC
LC/LL
LC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Practise oral expression.
- Practice written expression. / - The teacher asks the plans for the month, written in PB activity 4.
- Extension (optional): Pupils write an e-mail in reply to the character in PB activity 1. / OC/OE
WE / LG
Ind / LC
LC/SCC
Unit Back to School. Lesson 5, PB and AB p. 8 (Story and values)
Objectives:
-Tell a story.
-Develop reading comprehension.
-Revise the unit language.
-Develop the ability to reason: Understanding cause and effect.
-Stimulate education values: thinking about what you are doing.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise the story characters. / - Write Phoebe, Alex and Patrick on the board. The pupils talk about what they remember about them. / OC/OE / LG / LC / Augmented reality: Story animation and online interactive activities
Lesson order / - Develop the ability to predict.
- Tell a story.
- Understand cause and effect.
- Identify the values in the story. / - PB, pp. 8 - 9, Act 1. Pupils look at and talk about the pictures. Pupils reply to the question.
- PB, pp. 8-9, Act 2. CD1, 09: Pupils listen, check their predictions and debate in pairs. Pupils listen again and read.
- AB, p. 8, Act 1: Pupils remember the story and complete it using words from the box.
- AB, p. 8, Act 2 Think!: Pupils read the questions and possible answers and mark the correct one.
- AB, p. 8, Act 3 Values: Pupils read the sentences and mark the ones which fit the values looked at in the story. / OC/OE/RC
OC/OE/RC
LC
LC
LC / LG/P
P/LG
Ind
LG
Ind / LC
LC
LC
SCS/LL
LC/SCC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Practice the story.
- Revise the values in the story. / - Role-plays. In groups of 4 pupils share out the characters. They prepare their roles, practise in groups and act out the story.
- Extension (optional): Ask the pupils about accidents they have had because of not thinking beforehand. / OC/RC/OE
OE / PG/GG
LG / LC
LC
Unit Back to School. Lesson 6, PB and AB p. 9 (Story and phonics)
Objectives:
-Talk about the story in detail.
-Teach and practise diphthongs /aɪ/ and /eɪ/ in connection with different written letters.
-Develop the ability to reason: understanding characters and situations.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise the story. / - Write the characters' initials on the board. Ask their names and what they were doing in the first lesson of the unit. / OC/OE / LG / LC / Augmented reality: Story animation and online interactive activities.
Lesson order / - Understanding characters and situations.
- Teach the diphthongs /aɪ/ and /eɪ/ in connection with different written letters.
- Understanding characters and situations.
- Practise diphthongs /aɪ/ and /eɪ/ in connection with different written letters.
. / - PB, p. 9, Act 3 Think!:Pupils listen to and read the story. Pupils answer the questions and correct in pairs and as a group.
- PB, p. 9, Act 4 CD1, 10 Phonics: Pupils listen to the CD, read and repeat. The pupils repeat at different speeds and with different tones. Then the pupils repeat in pairs.
- AB, p. 9, Act 4: Pupils remember the story. Pupils write sentences each scene in the story with the words in the box.
- AB, p. 9, Act 5. CD1, 11 Phonics: Listen and repeat the words with correct pronunciation.
- AB, p. 9, Act 6: Classify the words in columns depending on the sound.
- AB, p. 9, Act 7 CD1, 12: Listen to, correct and say the words from the previous activity. / OC/RC/OE
RC/WE/OE
WE
RC/WE
OC
OC/OE / Ind/P/LG
Ind/P/LG
Ind
Ind
Ind
Ind / LC/LL
LC
LC
LC
LC
LC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Revise the pronunciation of vowel sounds.
- Revise the unit vocabulary / - Write on the board the words: great, green, like, slow, school, measured. The pupils classify the words in columns depending on the sound.
- Extension (optional): Ask the pupils what they think will happen when the characters come through the door this time. / OC/OE
OE / LG
LG / LC
LC / Notebook
Unit Back to School. PB and AB pp. 4 to 9
Evaluation activities
Skills / Lesson 1 / Lesson 2 / Lesson 3 / Lesson 4 / Lesson 5 / Lesson 6
Oral Comprehension / PB, p. 4, Act 1.
CD1, 02 / PB, p. 5, Act 2.
CD1, 05 / PB, p. 6, Act 1.
CD1, 06 / PB, p. 7, Act 2. CD1, 08 / PB, pp. 8-9, Act 1.
CD2, 09 / PB, p. 9, Act 4.
CD1, 10
Oral expression / PB, p. 4, Act 3 / PB, p. 5, Act 3 / PB, p. 6, Act 3 / PB, p. 7, Act 3 / PB, p. 9, Act 3:
Talk in pairs
Reading comprehension / Worksheet 1: First, second or third? (TRB, p. 7) / PB, p. 5, Act 1
Worksheet 2: What do they do? What are they doing? (TRB, p. 8) / AB, p. 6, Act 2 / PB, p. 7, Act 1
Worksheet 3: What are they going to do? (TRB, p. 9) / AB, p. 8, Act 1
Writing expression / AB, p. 4, Act 3
Worksheet 1: First, second or third? (TRB, p. 7) / AB, p. 6, Act 3 / AB, p. 7, Act 3
Worksheet 3: What are they going to do? (TRB, p. 9) / AB, p. 9, Act 4
Progress Tests: Organize Progress Tests 1 and 2 at the end of Session 6.
Unit 1: Jet packs for hire. Lesson 1, SB and WB page 10 (Vocabulary presentation)Objectives:
-Teach and practise things in the countryside and in the open air.
-Practice oral comprehension.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Teach the unit theme. / - Write country on the board. The pupils say connected words. If any pupils, or their families, live in the country, they describe it. / OE/RC / LG / LC/SCC / Augmented reality: interactive activity vocabulary and online interactive activities.
Worksheet 1: The countryside (TRB, p. 11)
Lesson order / - Teach the introductory scene.
- Practise things in the countryside and in the open air.
- Practise oral expression.
- Pupils practise the new vocabulary. / - Presentation. Say things from the country. Pupils look at the drawing and repeat. Ask questions about what is happening in the scene.
- PB, p. 10, Act 1. CD1, 13: Pupils look,listen and repeat the words. Pupils listen again and repeat in small groups. In pairs, pupils take it in turns to point at things in the countryside and pronounce them.
- PB, p. 10, Act 2. CD1, 14: Read the questions. Pupils listen to the CD and reply. In pairs, pupils compare, listen and correct.
- PB, p. 10, Act 3: In pairs, one pupil describes something and the other tries to guess what it is.
- AB, p. 10, Act 1: Pupils do a a crossword with things from the countryside.
- AB, p. 10, Act 2: Pupils read and complete the dialogues with things from the countryside. / OC/RC/OE
OC/RC/OE
RC/OC/OE
OC/OE
RC/WE
WE / LG
LG/SG/P
Ind/P/LG
P
Ind
Ind / LC
LC
LC
LC
LC/MSST
LC / PB
AB
CD1
End of the Lesson / - Revise vocabulary.
- Consolidate vocabulary from the lesson. / - Give definitions of the words. Pupils guess which they are.
- Extension (optional): Pupils copy the eight new words. Pupils write definitions: A path is a small road in the countryside. / OC/OE
RC/WE / LG
Ind / LC
LC / Notebook
Unit 1: Jet packs for hire. Lesson 2, SB and WB page 11 (Grammar 1)
Objectives:
-Teach and practise the connectors because, and, but and went + ing
-Revise the simple past.
-Develop the ability to reason: find alternative ideas.
Stage / Activities' objectives / Activities / Skills / Interaction / Competences / Materials / Reinforcement - Extension
Beginning of the lesson / - Revise the elements. / - Write the new vocabulary on the board with the letters mixed up. In pairs, the pupils come out and write them correctly. / RC/WE / LG / LC / Augmented reality: Grammar 1 interactive activity and online interactive activities