Activity 1

 GOING SHOPPING   

MR BEAR BOUGHT A PEAR

A PEAR?

YES!!! ….A YELLOW PEAR

MR PIG BOUGHT A FIG

A FIG?

YES!!! …A GREEN FIG

BIG OR SMALL?

A BIG GREEN FIG!

MR CAT BOUGHT A HAT

A HAT OR A MAT?

A HAT!!! A RED AND BLUE HAT!!!

MRS WHALE BOUGHT A SCALE

A BIG OR SMALL SCALE?

A HUGE SCALE!!!

 Give your students some cards showing pictures of clothes, fruit, food, etc.  Ask them to imagine they are doing some shopping.  Ask them to work in pairs and role play a mini- dialog.  You can review vocabulary such as clothes, food, furniture, etc.  After that  tell them the story about Mr Bear, Mr Pig, Mr Cat and Mrs Whale.  The purpose of telling them  this   story is to work on pronunciation and fluency basically.  Anyway, they will also be working on vocabulary, accuracy of expression and listening comprehension!

After telling them the story, give them a copy and ask them to underline those words that are pronounced in a similar way. Then ask them to draw a bear and a pear, a pig and a fig, a cat and a hat and a whale and a scale.  On the following class, ask them to choose a character and talk about what they have bought..  Hello, I´m Mr Bear and I bought a pear, a yellow pear!  Hello, My name is Mr Pig and I bought……etc.

You can adapt this activity and ask your students to use Libre Office and copy and paste the picture of a bear and a pear, a pig and a fig, etc and create their own mini-dialogues. They will have their e-mini-book.