Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
Cambridge Handbooks for LanguageTeachers
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Contents
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Introduction |
1 |
1 |
Animals |
9 |
1.1 |
What animals do you know? (*) |
9 |
1.2 |
Describing well-known animals (*) |
10 |
1.3 |
Animals moving about (*) |
11 |
1.4 |
Animal rhythms (*) |
12 |
1.5 |
Singing about animals (*) |
13 |
1.6 |
Writing an animal Haiku (*) |
14 |
1.7 |
Wild animals (**) |
15 |
1.8 |
What animal am I? (**) |
17 |
1.9 |
Guess the animal in 20 questions (**) |
18 |
1.10 |
Personal animal recount (**) |
19 |
1.11 |
Animal raps (**) |
20 |
1.12 |
Animal habitats (**) |
21 |
1.13 |
Animal information report (***) |
23 |
1.14 |
Human attributes of animals (***) |
24 |
1.15 |
Animal advertisements (***) |
25 |
1.16 |
Animal conversations (***) |
27 |
1.17 |
Animal escape (***) |
28 |
1.18 |
Which dog has a better life? (***) |
29 |
2 |
Journeys |
31 |
2.1 |
A beach holiday (*) |
31 |
2.2 |
Describing what we can do on a beach holiday (*) |
32 |
2.3 |
Types of transport (*) |
33 |
2.4 |
Transport: odd one out (*) |
34 |
2.5 |
A travel sociogram (*) |
35 |
2.6 |
A beach holiday checklist (*) |
37 |
2.7 |
Travelling to school (**) |
38 |
2.8 |
About the weather (**) |
39 |
2.9 |
Advice for a visitor (**) |
41 |
2.10 |
How do you come to school? (**) |
43 |
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Contents |
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2.11 |
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Guess the local place (**) |
44 |
2.12 |
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Writing a ‘late note’ for the teacher (**) |
45 |
2.13 |
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Travel diary from space (***) |
46 |
2.14 |
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Singing about journeys (***) |
47 |
2.15 |
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UFO (***) |
48 |
2.16 |
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Science fiction (***) |
49 |
2.17 |
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Holidays in space (***) |
50 |
2.18 |
About Mars (***) |
52 |
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3 |
Fantasy and adventure |
54 |
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3.1 |
The king and the dragon (*) |
54 |
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3.2 |
The pirate (*) |
56 |
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3.3 |
Adventurers and heroes (*) |
57 |
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3.4 |
Witch’s magic potion (*) |
58 |
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3.5 |
Good king bad king (*) |
60 |
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3.6 |
Draw a dinosaur (*) |
61 |
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3.7 |
Wizard interview (**) |
63 |
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3.8 |
Turned into a rabbit! (**) |
64 |
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3.9 |
Queen’s family (**) |
65 |
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3.10 |
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Fairy tale people (**) |
66 |
3.11 |
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Contrasting fairies and witches (**) |
67 |
3.12 |
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Three wishes (**) |
68 |
3.13 |
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Jack and the beanstalk (***) |
69 |
3.14 |
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Goldilocks (***) |
70 |
3.15 |
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Fortune telling (***) |
72 |
3.16 |
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House of horrors (***) |
73 |
3.17 |
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The king’s challenge (***) |
75 |
3.18 |
Create a fantasy tale (***) |
77 |
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4 |
The world around us |
78 |
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4.1 |
Rivers of the world (*) |
78 |
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4.2 |
Map making (*) |
79 |
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4.3 |
Drawing my natural world (*) |
80 |
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4.4 |
North, south, east and west (*) |
81 |
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4.5 |
Geographical tongue twisters (*) |
82 |
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4.6 |
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Sphere shapes (*) |
83 |
4.7 |
New Year celebrations (**) |
85 |
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4.8 |
New Year’s Day emails (**) |
86 |
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Contents |
4.9 |
Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand (**) |
87 |
4.10 |
Pinocchio: an Italian story (**) |
89 |
4.11 |
Carnival in Brazil (**) |
90 |
4.12 |
Popular Asian game (**) |
91 |
4.13 |
Natural disasters (***) |
92 |
4.14 |
Pompeii (***) |
94 |
4.15 |
Safety guidelines (***) |
95 |
4.16 |
Current affairs recount (***) |
96 |
4.17 |
Earthquakes and floods (***) |
97 |
4.18 |
Emergency procedures (***) |
99 |
5 |
Healthy bodies |
101 |
5.1 |
Grandma! What big eyes you’ve got! (*) |
101 |
5.2 |
Callisthenics (*) |
103 |
5.3 |
Create your own dance (*) |
104 |
5.4 |
Healthy morning routine (*) |
105 |
5.5 |
Staying clean and healthy (*) |
106 |
5.6 |
Footprints (*) |
107 |
5.7 |
Doctor! Doctor! (**) |
108 |
5.8 |
Safety (**) |
109 |
5.9 |
A healthy lifestyle (**) |
111 |
5.10 |
Our feelings (**) |
112 |
5.11 |
Absent from school (**) |
113 |
5.12 |
Unhealthy activities (**) |
114 |
5.13 |
The senses (***) |
116 |
5.14 |
An accident (***) |
117 |
5.15 |
Get well card (***) |
118 |
5.16 |
Personal affirmations (***) |
120 |
5.17 |
Healthy and unhealthy foods (***) |
121 |
5.18 |
Food pyramid (***) |
122 |
6 |
About me |
124 |
6.1 |
My family (*) |
124 |
6.2 |
My classroom (*) |
125 |
6.3 |
My home (*) |
127 |
6.4 |
My school books (*) |
128 |
6.5 |
My free time (*) |
129 |
6.6 |
My mum’s mobile phone (*) |
130 |
Contents |
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6.7 |
My friends (**) |
131 |
6.8 |
My birthday party (**) |
132 |
6.9 |
My school excursion (**) |
134 |
6.10 |
My sporting skills (**) |
135 |
6.11 |
My favourite TV show (**) |
136 |
6.12 |
My favourite party game (**) |
138 |
6.13 |
My computer class (***) |
139 |
6.14 |
My mathematics class (***) |
140 |
6.15 |
My science class (***) |
142 |
6.16 |
My social education class (***) |
143 |
6.17 |
My poetry class (***) |
145 |
6.18 |
My music class (***) |
146 |
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Website appendix |
148 |