- Teaching Plan - Grade - 2

- Aiju 爱菊 - - shangnan 上南 - - Tianshan 天山 - - Baoshan 宝山 -

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week: 1 Teacher: Theresa

Monday
Focus: Introductions, checking on students listening and speaking
comprehension through dialogue with them
Activities:

4. Students to guess their new teachers name. Introduction speech to students about their new teacher. True and False questions about their new teacher to test their listening comprehension. Students asked questions to find out some information about them.
5. Dialogue on transport to introduce them to new topic starting tomorrow.

Tuesday
Textbooks: Welcome to English page 1 & 2.
Focus: dialogue, new vocabulary for transport – How do you come to school
Activities:

1. students start a classmate alphabet in notebooks – idea to add to this each day until all classmates are listed in alphabetically order. Way for new teacher to get familiar with students and any new students in class and also names will be put in spelling test too.
2. new vocabulary: next 6 or so new words in ‘Welcome to English’.

Write the new words on the blackboard. Students read them together, and
then individually until they know them.
Students then stick the vocab. stickers into their ‘picture dictionary’ at the
end of the book. Walk around the room helping students.
Students then write the new words in their notebook
(c) students asked to name animals we can travel on Students to draw
the animal they would like to travel on and write the animal.

Wednesday
Textbooks: Pre-task Language pages 1 - 4
Focus: How do you come to school
Activities: (a) dialogue (b) continuing of classmate alphabet
Homework: Finish pre-task writing if didn’t in class, Grammar Practice pages 1&2

Thursday
Textbooks Reading and Writing Skills pages 1 & 2
Focus: dialogue, spelling test on transport words & a classmates name,
Activities
(a) continuing of classmate alphabet
(b) students handed a random animal they drew on Tuesday and in partners to practice the conversation to find out what animal they come to school on Students then to go around the class to find out other classmates who travel on the same animal.
(c) students form into groups and given a picture of a scene in town, they have to identify in the picture the different forms of transport then report back to class. Students then asked to name the different transport in Shanghai.
Homework: What did you do in the weekend What different transport did you use around Shanghai in the weekend

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week: 2 Teacher: Theresa

Monday
Textbook: Pre-Task Language pages 3 & 4, Spin Page 5 & 6
Focus: develop listening and conversational skills, check homework from Thursday
Activities:

1. Tell students what I did in the weekend and what different transport I used to get around Shanghai. Write questions on the board first that they must answer when I finish. How did I go to the supermarket What did I have to buy when I came out of the supermarket How did I go home after dinner How did I walk my dog
2. Students to ask each other the homework questions from Thursday, then to report back to tell classmates. “In the weekend Amy …… “ “She/he went around Shanghai by …..”
3. Test students on work covered last week (and last semester)

Orally give students 10 words or sentences. Students to write them in their notebooks. The incorrect answers will be their homework for Monday night.
e.g. a bus, two buses, a school bus, a train, a taxi, a minibus, how do you come to school, I come to school by car, I go to school by bicycle, I walk to school, good afternoon, I have a dog, I can climb a tree, etc.
(d) Student to do page 4 orally with each other giving their own
Answers. Check all completed writing correctly from last week.
(e) Spin Pages 5 & 6.
Homework
write the incorrect answers from the test 5 times in their notebook

Tuesday
Textbooks: Welcome to English pages 3 - 5
Focus: dialogue, check homework, new vocabulary
Activities:

1. new vocabulary: next 6 or so new words in ‘Welcome to English’.

Write the new words on the blackboard. Students read them together, and
then individually until you think they know them. Students then stick the
vocab. stickers into their ‘picture dictionary’ at the end of the book. Walk
around the room helping students. Students then write the new words in
their notebook.
Homework: write new words 5 times in notebook

Wednesday
Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills
Focus: Dialogue, Reading and writing skills
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) Teach difference between “to” and “too” and when to use “too”.
(c) page 3 and 4 of Reading and Writing Skills
Homework: Finish reading and writing activity, Grammar practice page 3 & 4

Thursday
Textbooks Up & Away Phonics,
Focus: dialogue, Finish week’s work, Review week’s work,
Activities: Games to reinforce material learnt, use a map and as a group decide how you will travel from one city to another, spelling test – of words/phrases learnt on monday
Homework: ‘grammar Practice” finish unit 1, Students to write down their home address and phone number in preparation for next week lesson. Also their foreign home address if have one.

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week: 3 Teacher: Theresa

Tuesday
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 7 - 10
Focus: Talking about where you live. Using “in” and “on” correctly. Telephone number, country code, area code, number. Why is it important to know your address Eg. If get lost, if in foreign country, if taking a taxi, if ordering home delivery food, writing a letter to a friend and you like them to write back, lost your bag, lost your pet, etc
Activities:

1. Tell students where I live in Shanghai, street, neighbourhood, district. And where I live in my home country, NZ. Explain difference between, neighbourhood, district, town, city, country.
2. Map out who lives closest to the school. Map out different countries, cities students come from.
3. Students to complete pages 7 – 10 in Welcome to English textbook.

Homework
If don’t’ know their address correctly to find it out and write it down. Grammar Practice (Book C) Page 5.

Wednesday
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 5 & 6
Focus: students to practice asking and answering questions on where they live, phone number and how they go to school, to shops etc
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Test phone numbers. (mobile, land line, office, home number etc) Students to write down tel numbers teacher calls out. Spelling test on phrases: Where do you live I live in Xu Hui district. I go home by bicycle. My telephone number is …
3. Students given a street address near the school by teacher and they are to find out who lives on the same street. Then they are to arrange to go to school together by bicycle, taxi, on foot etc.

Homework: Grammar practice (Book C) page 6, students to bring in a toy they would not like to get lost!

Thursday
Textbooks: Reading and Writing Skills (Book D) Pages 5 - 7
Focus: new words: help, kind, lost, owner … use a sentence with these words. Write down for future test. Eg. Can you please help me. I am lost. Thank you you are kind to help me. Who is your owner
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) write down new words and sentences three times each in notebook
(c) Page 5 to 7 Reading and Writing Skills (Book D)
(d) to write tag for their toy or bag – if lost tag please return to owner ….
Homework: finish Page 8 Book D

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week: 4 Teacher: Theresa
Monday
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 11 & 12
Focus: Conversation … “How old Where How What To use the word “too” when they have something in common.
Activities:

1. Spelling test: lost, help, I don’t know. I’m eight. I live in Shanghai. He lives in Japan. My telephone number is 54782311. Where do you live I come to school on foot.
2. Book A page 11 & 12.
3. Activity – Make a special me page – writing or drawing things that describe who they are, favourite things etc

Homework: Grammar practice page 7. Incorrect spelling words/sentences to be written three times each in notebooks.

Tuesday
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 7 & 8
Focus: Using “in” to describe location of a city, a country. Eg. Shanghai is in China. China is in Asia.
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Book B Pages 7 & 8.
3. Activity – students given a city and country and have to ask each other where they are from. If don’t know where is the city. Have to ask where it is … eg. Where are you from I am from Cairo. Where is that Cairo is in Egypt.

Homework: Grammar practice (Book C) page 8

Wednesday
Textbooks: Worksheet review, Spin C
Focus: Review of unit 2 – talking about where do you live. Explain difference of where do you live and where are you from. Eg. I live in Shanghai, but I am from New Zealand.
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) Worksheets review
(c) Spin C – What are you doing Using present progressive page 6.
Homework: Write about your family: My father is from _________ . My mother is from ____________ . I was born in (city), (country). We live in ________ .

Thursday
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: Talking about time and activities.
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) Spin C – pages 9 - 11
Homework: Write down who are your teachers. Eg. My english teacher is Mrs Theresa. My chinese teacher is _________ .

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week 5 Teacher: Theresa
Saturday 27 Sept. (Monday)
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 13 - 16
Focus: Talking about people who help us in our everyday life. Talk about what they do, describe them and tell if they like them.
Activities:

1. Who helps you What is his / her job He / She is kind. I like him/her.
2. Write names of all school subjects and who is their teacher. List other people at school who help you. Write words (and their opposites) to describe people. Eg. Friendly / unfriendly, helpful/unhelpful etc
3. Book A pages 13 & 14.

Homework:

Sunday 28 Sept. (Tuesday)
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 9 & 10
Focus: Talking about how to ask for help, and give help. Thanking people who help us. Describing people who help us. Vocab: kind, helpful, friendly, caring etc
Activities:

8. Talk about what have you done to help someone. Write down all the little or big ways you can help someone or something. Ask how can you help your mother, your younger sister, your grandfather, your teacher, your school etc etc. Why is it good to help
9. Talk about who has helped you already today to do something.
10. Book B Pages 9 & 10

Homework: Write about something you did during the holidays that was helpful or someone who helped you.

Monday 6 Oct.
Textbooks: Book D, Page 9 & 10
Focus: Identifying what people do and exactly how they help.
Activities:
(a) Name some characters from a story, movie, cartoon that help people. Name how some animals help us.
(b) Book D – Page 9 & 10
(c) Write about a friend or someone who has helped you as on page 10.
Homework: Grammar Practice Book C – page 9 & 10

Tuesday 7 October
Textbooks: Review
Focus: Writing thank you notes
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) Spelling test
(c) Writing Thank you notes to someone who has helped you (Review sheets)
(d) Offering to help someone in the class.
Homework: Write about who you helped and what you did. Write about someone who helped you and what they did. Eg. I helped my mother. I helped her to clean the dishes. My father helped me. He helped me to finish my homework.

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week 6: Teacher: Theresa

Monday 13 October
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 19 & 20
Focus: Talking about jobs people do. Learning names of jobs. Ask & answer questions about your parents and other people’s jobs.
Activities:

8. Introduce students to names of different jobs. First get students to call out jobs they know or would like to do. Give them worksheet to write down the different jobs they see. Also look at page 58 & 59 of teachers book of jobs. Write the job and where they work. Eg. He’s a doctor. He works in a hospital. She’s a teacher. She works in a university.
9. Welcome to English book – page 19 & 20 (21 & 22).
10. Using: He’s a … , She’s a ….. , Tim’s mother is a … etc

Homework: Write down what is your mother’s and father’s job and any other people in your family. Where do they work. Eg. I am a student. I study at Aiju school. My father is a chef. He works in a hotel. My mother is a housewife. She works at home.

Tuesday 14 October
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) pages 13 to 15
Focus: What do other people in your family do
Activities:

11. Talk about what people in my family do for work. Students to answer true or false to questions about what jobs my family members do. Students then talk about what other people in their family do for work.
12. Book B – page 13 - 15
13. Worksheet – What do the family do

Homework: Book C - page 13

Wednesday 15 October
Textbooks: Book D, Page 13 & 14
Focus: Talking about your favourite stories and what the characters do in them.
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Book D – Page 13 & 14
3. Name some characters from a story, movie, cartoon that you like. Talk
   about what is their job. What do they do.
4. Book D – page 15 & 16

Homework: Grammar Practice Book C – page 14

Thursday 16 October
Textbooks: Storyland Book page 27 onwards
Focus: Describing characters jobs in a story
Activities:
(a) check homework
(b) Spelling test
(c) Students to write three choices of jobs they would like to do and why. (all possibilities: artist, athlete, astronaut, pilot, writer, teacher etc.)
(d) Storyland page 27 onwards
Homework: Book C – page 15

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 8 Teacher: Theresa
Monday 27 October
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 25 & 26
Focus: Following rules. Students learn to talk about signs commonly seen in a park. Talk about the relevant rules.
Activities:

7. Talk about signs we see around us.
8. Welcome to English book A – pages 25 & 26
9. Put stickers in Picture dictionary and write out 4 times each.
10. Talk about why we have signs and rules. Write sentences about some eg. Why don’t we make a noise near the birds. Because we don’t want to frighten them. We don’t litter because we want to keep the place clean for everyone and so animals don’t get trapped too. Etc.
11. Students to make a sign to respect the rules in classroom.

Homework: Book C – page 17

Tuesday 28 October
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B) page 21 & 22
Focus: Recognising what signs mean.
Activities:

14. Check homework. Talk about Halloween.
15. Warm up – show some signs and ask what they mean. Difference between Don’t and can’t.
16. Book B – page 21 & 22
17. Look at some other scenes from teachers book and draw and write what signs you would see here. Eg. At the beach, At the circus, in a Museum

Homework: Book C – page 18

Wednesday 29 October
Textbooks: Book D – pages 17 & 18
Focus: Asking permission.
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Book B – pages 17 & 18
3. Draw a scene of a park or beach and put in the signs you would normally see there. Exchange with classmate and write sentences about rules in the scene you have

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 30 October
Textbooks: Spin C – Unit 3
Focus: Review & talking about chores
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(c) Spin C - Unit 3
Homework: Write down some rules you must follow at home

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 9 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 3 November
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A), pages 28 - 30
Focus: reading comprehension
Activities:

9. Check homework
10. Welcome to English book A – pages 28 – 30
11. Review in, on, at, by, out, over
12. Worksheet – silent “b”

Homework: Book C – page 19

Tuesday 4 November
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)
Focus: Recognising what signs mean. When to use “this” or “that”.
Activities:

18. Check homework.
19. Book B – page 22 - 24
20. Write your own sentences to match the ones on page 23 – A to F
21. “This” or “That” exercise.

Homework: Book C – page 20

Wednesday 5 November
Textbooks: Reading & Writing Skills - Book D
Focus: Following the rules in different settings
Activities:

5. Check homework
6. Book B – pages 17 & 18
7. Worksheet silent “wh”

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 6 November
Textbooks: Spin C – Unit 4
Focus: Review & talking about chores
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Review Unit 3 page 34
(c) Spin C - Unit 4
Homework: Write about an animals habitat as on page 35 in Spin to share with class next week.
School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 10 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 10 November
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A) and Spin C.
Focus: Reviewing the signs verbally. Can & Can not.
Activities:

16. Check homework – describing animal habitats. Guess the animal
17. Spin C – page 36 & 37
18. Welcome to English book A – pages 29 & 30 - review

Homework: Choose an animal to write about. Compare the animal to yourself. What can your animal do that people can’t do What can people do that the animal can’t do as well Eg. I can replica breitling watches climb but a monkey can climb better. I can talk. A monkey can not talk. etc

Tuesday 11 November
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)
Focus: Sentence Writing
Activities:

1. Check homework.
2. Book B – page 22 – write sentences about the picture
3. Sentence Writing Workseet

Homework: Write four sentences correctly about your favourite thing to do (sport, hobby, activity, food) and why you enjoy to do this.

Wednesday 12 November
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: describing things using “very”
Activities:

22. Check homework
23. Warm up use of word “very”
24. Spin C – pages 38 - 40

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 13 November
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: silent “k” words
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Worksheet silent “k”
Homework: Write two or three sentences using words with silent “k”

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 11 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 17 November
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)
Focus: Describing location of places within a place eg. “in front of, behind, between, etc.”
Activities:

19. Check homework – write three sentences that contain a silent “k” word.
20. Revise prepositions: in, on, under, near
21. Introduce new prepositions: behind, in front of, between, opposite,
22. Welcome to English book A – pages 31 & 32

Homework: Book C – page 21

Tuesday 18 November
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)
Focus: Identifying where places are located
Activities:

25. Check homework.
26. Book B – page 25 & 26
27. Students to draw a house and location of rooms and things as described by teacher (page 64 teachers book)

Homework: Write about where your home is located. Describe what is next to your home, behind, infront of etc

Wednesday 19 November
Textbooks: Book D – Reading and Writing skills
Focus: Reading leaflets and finding out what you can do
Activities:

9. Check homework
10. Book D – page 21 & 22
11. Grammar worksheet – page 148 (teachers book) – other prepositions eg. along, across, around, behind, beside, down, over, into, near, through, under etc

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 20 November
Textbooks: Worksheets
Focus: Review of prepositions and using “it is”, “they are” to ask where things are.
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Worksheets to review prepositions used in unit so far (teachers book)
(c) “it is” , “they are” exercise
Homework: Book C – page 22
ASTP AIJU

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 12 Teacher: Theresa
Monday 24 November
Textbook: Welcome to English (Book A)
Focus: Prounciation focus - “ar” sound eg. car, garden, bark, ark, mark, etc, using “It is” and “They are” correctly.
Activities:

23. Check homework – Book C – page 22
24. Warm-up review ask one-by-one “Where is Where are you Where are __ & __ ” Students to reply: “He/She’s … or I’m … or They’re … or It’s …”
25. Welcome to English book A – pages 33 & 34
26. Worksheet – Where are they
27. Tic-tac-toe : students to either make a sentence or a question
28. Ping pong game: using “ar” sound – phonics rhyme words

Homework: Book C – page 23

Tuesday 25 November
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)
Focus: Listening and completing instructions of where things are located.
Activities:

1. Check homework Book C – page 23
2. Book B – page 27 & 28
3. Listening – students to fill out the picture of a street scene as teacher describes location of people and things – teachers book page 110

Homework: Describe what is around your house. Eg. In front of our house is a shop. Under our house is a car park. Next to …. Behind … My house is between ….

Wednesday 26 November
Textbooks: Book D – Reading and Writing skills
Focus: Reading leaflets and finding out what you can do
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Book D – page 23 & 24
3. Grammar worksheet – page 149 (teachers book) – other prepositions eg. along, across, around, behind, beside, down, over, into, near, through, under etc

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 27 November
Textbooks: Worksheets & Spin C
Focus: Past Tense: Was it It was.
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Spin C – page 45 - 47 (seasons & months to write down)
Homework: Write a few sentences about the weather in the month you were born in. eg. I was born in the month of ….. It is summer time. The weather is very hot. Etc.

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 14 Teacher: Theresa

Monday 8 December
Textbook: Reading & Writing - Book D
Focus: Talking about change … “were” “was” - “are” “is”; prefixes: un, dis, mis, im
Activities:

1. Check homework – Spin C p 49 & 50
2. Spin C – review unit 5 – page 52
3. Talk about change – school, how went to school, teachers, friends, classmates, family, age, height, etc etc
4. Book D – pages 27 & 28
5. Grammar worksheet – page 137 – prefixes

Homework: Book C – page 26/27

Tuesday 9 December
Textbooks: Pre-Task Language (Book B)
Focus: Word Groups – put words into correct groups eg. nouns (animals, places), adjectives (feelings, descriptions), verbs (actions)
Activities:

1. Check homework Book C
2. Book B – page 30 & 31 – extension of page 31 – using words given by teacher students to put into the correct groups then make sentences or a story with them.
3. Review – a, an, some

Homework: Book C – page 28

Wednesday 10 December
Textbooks: Book B – Reading and Writing skills
Focus: it’s, they, a, an, some
Activities:

1. Check homework – a, an, some
2. Looking at the picture – write sentences to describe what you see using “a”, “an”, “some”. (p. 88 – teacher’s Disney book)
3. Book B – page 32 – extension activity to make questions or answers for the other responses.

Homework: prepare for spelling test

Thursday 11 December
Textbooks: Worksheets & Spin C
Focus: Soft ‘c’ for the /s/ sound
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Worksheet – page 55
Homework:

School: Aiju Grade: 2 Week : 15 Teacher: Theresa
Monday 15 December
Textbook: Grammar worksheet
Focus: Soft ‘c’ for the /s/ sound
Activities:

1. Grammar worksheet – page 55 – soft ‘c’
2. Hard ‘c’ for the k sound – can, come, crocodile etc
3. Guessing game

Homework: looking in your picture dictionary page 39 & 40 – find and write down the words with the soft ‘c’ sound and then with the hard ‘c’ sound. See if you can think of some other soft ‘c’ words.

Tuesday 16 December
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: The Fives Senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
Activities:

1. Check homework
2. Warm up – introduce the vocab to talk about the five senses: looks, sounds, smells, tastes, feels – Spin C – page 53
3. Build up vocab for describing sound and sight … by referring to things around us in the classroom. Speaking and writing it down.

Homework: Make your own sound from things you can find at home. Eg. sticky tape, fork and knife etc. Bring in next day to share your new sound with the class. Class will close their eyes and guess what the noise is made from and describe how it sounds.

Wednesday 17 December
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: The Five Senses continued focus on smell & taste
Activities:

1. Perform homework task
2. Build up vocab for describing smell & taste – using food given from teachers book – page 18 – 23. Students given a piece of food to describe to class – who have to guess what it is.
3. Teacher will bring in some smells – students to close eyes to see if can guess the smell without looking at it.
4. Spin C – page 54

Homework: Bring in something from home that classmates to guess what it is only by touching it with eyes closed. Prepare for spelling test

Thursday 18 December
Textbooks: Spin C
Focus: Fifth sense - touch
Activities:
(a) Spelling test
(b) Touch exercise
(c) Spin C – page 55