Writing Sentences

Activity towards developing attention to sentence writing:
a) Myself and my family and friends (Vocabulary eliciting: father, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, boy, boys, girl, girls, baby, child, children, man, men, woman, women, friend). Elicit sentences on every vocabulary by each and every participant. Correcting them if wrong.

b) Structures: Series of questions are raised and responses elicited by providing the activity sheet with the following content.


 * 1) What is your name? / What’s your name?
 * 2) My name is …
 * 3) What is your friend’s name? / What’s your friend’s name?
 * 4) What is your brother’s/ sister/s name?
 * 5) My friend’s name is …
 * 6) How many brothers do you have? / How many brothers have you got?
 * 7) How many sisters do you have? / How many sisters have you got?

Note for these questions short answers are acceptable. Later, the extension of the same is carried out for further formation of structures.

Example:

Teacher: How many brothers have you got?

Child: Two.

Teacher: You’ve got two brother

4. Substitution	drill
 * 1) What is this?  It is a ___ / It’s a_____  What are these? They are___
 * 2) What sound does it make?  Is this a_____? Yes it is. No it isn’t.  Is this a _____ or a _____ ? It’s a _____.
 * 3) What is this?  Is this a____  Is this a ______ or a _____?  How many ____does a ____ have ?  Which ____do you like ?  I like _____  Which _____ don’t you like______ ? I don’t like  ____

This	is a dog.

This	is a big dog.


 * 1) Black
 * 2) white
 * 3) hungry

This	is a tree.

This	is a coconut tree.


 * 1) Tall
 * 2) old
 * 3) healthy

5. Meeting People

6. Can you swim? Yes I can. / No I can’t.

Can you ride a cycle? Can you ride a horse? Can you play the drum? Can you dance? Can you play kabadi Can you drive a car?

7.  Describing an animal.

Think of a animal.

Each student adds one more sentence to describe the animal. E.g.

This is a cat.

It has four legs.

It has a tail.

It is black and white.

It is sleeping.

It is in the house

8. Describing objects.

