Realia

1. What Do You Do?

· Ahead of time, think of the professions you wish to present in order to prepare necessary props (e.g. a doctor - white clothes, a mouth protector, gloves; a nurse - a bandage, a syringe - you may use the props from children’s doctor set; a teacher; a shop assistant - a cash register, some things representing the goods; etc.).

· Select one student - a volunteer. Tell him/her he/she is a doctor: "You are a doctor now." Show him/her a picture of a doctor to make sure he/she knows who a doctor is. Start getting his/her clothes ready. While showing him/her working overalls, ask: "Are these clothes right for a doctor?" (Emphasize the word doctor.) Then check their understanding by holding a screwdriver and ask again: "Does a doctor use this?"

· When the student finally puts on the right clothes and selects the aids he/she needs for given profession, ask: "What does she/he do?" and answer: "He/she is a doctor."

· Follow the same pattern for all professions.

· Children who acquired various professions keep their clothes and aids. Eventually, revise the professions with children one more time (the "actors" come up one by one, naming their professions).

Aids:

aids and uniforms necessary for individual professions; flashcards

2. Objects in the bag.

Bring in a cloth bag with about 9 or 10 objects in it. Walk around the class and let each student reach in the bag and grab one object. Without taking it out, the students should guess what it is. Next, take each object out of the bag. Tell the class what is called and describe it. From time to time ask students a questions about an item: George, do you have one of this in your house? How much are these in your country? Finally quiz the students on the names on the objects.

3. Shopping. the teacher brings some piece of clothes to the class and the students too. The students act like selling the clothes in partner to the rest of their classmate, some partners repeat the same. The teach is the monitor and have to check what the students do.

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4. Learning vocabulary with real objects.

The teacher shows some objects to the students and asks: what is this? Students have to answer according to the object that the teacher present or ask them about. The teacher do the same with different objects.

5. The perfect gift.

Bring to class a variety of inexpensive items. The numbers of objects should be twice the numbers of the students, so twenty for a class of ten students. ask each student to take an object and place it in his or her desk. now, tell everyone to imagine that the objects is a gift for another student in class. who would they like to give it to? why? give them some minutes to think of their answer. Ask each student to tell the class about their gift, using the sentence pattern "I think this would be the perfect gift for - because-"