Date: Grade: The theme of the lesson

Activity 1b Point and say. 5 min

Objective: to practise “That’s …”

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Ask one pair to per- form in front of the whole class. For example, Pupil A: ‘This is a book.’

Pupil b: ‘That’s a pencil.’ etc.

STEP 2: Then ask the others to start. Check that the pupils know what to do. Go round and monitor, help if necessary.

Optional Activity 2 Play “Listen and guess”. Objective: to recycle the question “What’s that?”

STEP 1: say that the pupils will play a guessing game in pairs. explain that one pupil must describe an animal (from the cloud picture in 1a) and another pupil must guess the animal. For example: Pupil 1: ‘it’s big. it can swim.’

Pupil 2: ‘That’s a duck.’ Pupil 1: ‘no.’

Pupil 2: ‘That’s a crocodile.’ Pupil 1: ‘Yes.’

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to look at the dialogue in Activity 2, especially the words “it’s” and “That’s”. Ask if anybody knows what the apostrophe means in these words. After eliciting some answers, sum up that apostrophe means contraction. Write on the board: it’s = it is and That’s = That is. explain that we use contractions when we speak and want to write just the same as we speak. As regards to full forms, they are not oral speech so we write them fully in cases other than oral speech. After that have the pupils repeat the contractions and full forms you have written on the board after you and let them see the difference in pronunciation.