Lesson Plan: In My Garden

This lesson should be done in the week following the lesson on "Spring".

Lesson Level:     Junior                   Duration:  40 Minutes

Lesson Title:     In My Garden

Grammar and Vocabulary

Revise vocabulary from previous lesson (Spring)

Additional vocabulary for gardens

Flower bed/vegetable/path/garden shed/bushes/lawn mower/lawn .

Lesson Objectives

Students will revise vocabulary from previous lesson and add new vocabulary to describe gardens.

Students will discuss what they like in a garden and design their own gardens.

Students will present their gardens to the class.

Materials Required

None

Preparation

None

Procedure

1

Write “In My Garden” on board.

Elicit meaning of “Garden”

Explain Yard/Garden (What is called a “garden” in England is called a “yard” in America. In England the word “yard” only means a concrete area with no grass or plants, In America “garden” only means an area for growing flowers or vegetables.)

2

Ask who remembers the flowers from last week.

Elicit bluebell/daffodil/snowdrop/primrose/tulip/buttercup and write on board.

Play hangman variation using the vocabulary words.

For this variation draw a flower pot with a flower consisting of a stem, two leaves and six petals. At each wrong guess remove one of these 9 items (two leaves count as one item.)

Add words to vocabulary list on board. Explain meanings of new words.

3

Select students using ball toss and ask if they have a garden.

Ask what is in their garden.

4

Divide class into groups of four.

Play “quicklists” game.

Each group starts with three lives. The groups, in turn, must say a word for something you can find in a garden. It cannot be something already on the board. A group has only ten seconds to answer. If they answer the word is added to the board. If they fail to answer that team loses a life. All three lives lost means the group is out. The last group to be in are the winners.

5.

Using the vocabulary on the board (you can add additional vocabulary if you need it) and suggestions from the class design a garden.

Start by drawing a large square. Ask students where you should have a path. Draw path.

Ask students if you need a shed and where to put it.

Ask students for types of flowers or vegetables and where to put them

Continue until you have a sample design on the board.

(Alternatively for weaker classes just draw a layout then label it with the words “path”, “shed”, “lawn etc and recheck meanings with the class.

6

Tell groups they must now draw and label their own gardens.

Give about ten minutes for this activity.

Monitor and assist as necessary.

7

Choose some of the best gardens and ask students from those groups to come and draw their gardens on the board.

Ask ANOTHER student from each of the groups who have drawn to tell the class about the garden.

8

If there is time, repeat with more groups.