Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Playing with Sounds
 

Learning Targets for Key Stage 1:

KSf - To recognize some obvious features of the English Language in simple spoken and written texts such as the direction of writing in English, the characteristics of an alphabetic script and the sound patterns of English; and apply this awareness to one’s initial learning and use of the language

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

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- Listening

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develop

sensitivity

towards

language use

in the process

of

communication

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Related Basic Competencies:

L2-L-1-P3BC:
Discriminating between common words with a small range of vowel and consonant sounds
L2-R-2-P3BC:
Reading aloud unfamiliar words with a small range of vowel and consonant sounds in short and simple texts

 

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students’ self-access

Part 1

PowerPoint Presentation

 

A PowerPoint presentation: Listen and Say

Learners listen to different consonant sounds in rhyming words and learn to pronounce the words.

10

Part 2

PowerPoint Presentation

 

An interactive activity: Listen and Choose

Learners are given two rhyming words at a time. Then they listen to the target word and choose the correct word.

10

Part 3

Activity Plan

 

A classroom activity: Bingo Game

Learners identify different consonant sounds  through a bingo game.

20