Making a Word-Train! (studying the structure of an English sentence)

Overview of Entire Lesson

[Introduction]

Start with the bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La0CoYt8BUY

Part 1. Studying the structure of English sentences

           Teacher

• lets students tell any word in Korean. 
• makes a sentence using students’ words, and lets them guess the structure of a sentence. 
• shows a picture in which students are interested and ask them to tell any word in English about the picture. 
• gives students chance to think about the structure of an English sentence. 
• Comprehension checking with the chart of the structure of an English sentence. 

Part 2. Group activity: Making a word-train as long as you can! (Game)

• Make groups of four. 
• Give groups the worksheets of cars of a train and the frequently-used English words list, which are going to be used for making a word-train. 
• Show a picture and ask students to describe it 
• Start the game

Students

a) choose some words for the picture given by the teacher and write them down on their worksheets.
b) make a sentence by linking the cars of a train.
c) whose word-train is longest will be a winner.