Describe my family 1
A topic like Meet my family allows you, as a teacher, to introduce words that will help your students make a physical description of their family members, friends and people in general. I usually teach this topic to my second graders. Many of them only use the first person to express themselves in sentences at this age. At this point, the first thing I teach is the use of the third person pronouns in the singular. My students like drawing and they understand words better if they see an illustration of it, so I draw some stick figures on the board for them. Using realia is always a good idea when teaching new lexis to children and, when the real life examples are the students themselves, it's even more fun. I ask them to make a sentence about their desk mates. I write on the board the stems for the sentences and they can use any other vocabulary items they know to complete them. He is... She is.... He's got.... She's got... Then, we revise the parts of the face. The fol
