English Course for kids

Overview: This course aims in making students become an efficient and effective English Communicators. Therefore, to become a better communicator one must learn the Basics of Grammar. Grammar involves the parts of speech; they are the essential building blocks to teaching students to communicate and well in English. Understanding the parts of speech and how they fit together makes writing and reading easy. Building Language Arts skills on the eight parts of speech can be a fun learning experience if taught creatively and with enthusiasm.
Name: Milee Tutorial Center/Summer English Course            Level: Beginner 2                                                                                        JULY CLASSB (Tuesdays and Thursday) Language: Advance Lessons in English Target/s: Grammar; Parts of Speech; Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections and Articles and Sentences. Objective/s:    At the end of every lessons the students should be able to;                     -Enumerate the eight parts of Speech                                     -Give examples in each category.                     -Learn their functions                                                  - Construct meaningful sentences                                                            -Identify the words in their sentences                                      -Express their ideas without difficulties
JULY 2/Tuesday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Nouns(Singular and Plural)
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Identifying Nouns and Verbs	Introduction	1.       The teacher starts the lesson by letting students write on the board anything they want. They can draw or write the word, anything that pops out in their minds. 2.       The teacher discusses the definitions of NOUN. She elicits major answers from students based from their answers on the board. 3.       The teacher divides the board into two columns; she designates ‘Singular and Plural’. She then asks students to write the equivalent of words in singular and plural terms. 4.       She then introduces the ‘Count and Uncountable Nouns’ together with ‘Proper and Improper nouns’ using the same examples. *The teacher makes sure the students understand the lessons well.
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Knowledge	Activity	5.       The teacher sets the class in pairs. Then she hands a ‘Vocabulary list’ Person A will have to read each word to her partner-Partner B will have to distinguish what category the word belongs.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)	Knowledge and Accuracy	Group Activity	6.       The best group wins the game. 7.       The teacher introduces; ‘Possessive nouns’, ‘Compound Nouns’ and ‘Nouns that function as adjectives’. 8.       The teacher asks students to think of their own examples.
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Oral and Writing skills	Assessment: Games and Activities	9.       The teacher asks the students to line up. Each student should be able to construct a sentence applying the lessons learned. Game: each student must be able to use any of the lessons; she then uses the name of the next person to complete the thought. The idea/s must realistic. EX: Rina and Allan. Rina: He is a boy. The boy is Allan. Boy:Allan are Common and Proper nouns
			10.   The teacher hands them a written assessment and finds out how well they have understood.
JULY 4/Thursday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: PRONOUNS
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Input knowledge	Introduction	1.      The teacher starts the lesson by reviewing what students learned the previous day. The students should be able to say something about the past day’s lesson. 2.      The teacher introduces ‘Pronouns’. She gives a definition of a pronoun to them.
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Input knowledge	Discussions	3.       The teacher discusses what ‘Personal Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative and Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns are. 4.       The teacher distributes strips of sentences to students. Each student should be able to re-write and recite the sentence using Pronouns.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Assessments		5.      The teacher gives each student a sentence. The student should be able to elaborate the sentence by using proper pronouns. The student who could continue and deliver her work is declared the winner.
July 9/Tuesday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: VERBS
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Practice	Introduction	1.      The students are ask to go in front. The teacher gives them a command such as; (stand up, look, run, walk, stop, move, close your eyes)
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Familiarity Memory	Activity: Game	2.      The teacher introduces a new game, “Travelers’ Game” Mechanic: The class splits into two teams on opposite sides of the room. A student from one side of the room goes to the other team and chooses an individual student. The first student states a sentence but leaves out the verb Ex: “The girl ______ food.” The student from the second team has to provide a verb that agrees with the subject, or the first student takes him to the other team. If the student from the second team gives a correct answer, both students stay with the second team. The teams take turns doing this until time runs out. The team with the most students wins. 3.      Write an identical number of subject nouns and verbs on small cards. Some of the nouns and verbs must be singular and some must be plural. Place the cards face down in random order. The students take turns turning over pairs of cards. If the two cards are a verb and a noun, and they match in terms of subject-verb agreement, then the student keeps the cards. At the end of the game the student with the most cards wins.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Assessments		4.      The students are asked to write a composition; Students should be able to write their experiences in an ‘Real-experience’ into a paragraph form  5.      The teacher hands a table with (Past/Simple Present/Present Participle/Past Participle) to the students, they should be able to write and complete the table. Each student should be able to write at least one and complete the entire row.
July 11/Thursday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Adjectives
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Warm up: Mystery Box	Introduction	1.      The teacher presents a ‘Mystery box with four holes’. The students insert their hands inside each holes, the students say something about what they have felt inside the box. 2.      The teacher writes the words on the white board.
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Input Information		3.      The teacher explains that those words are ‘Adjectives’ and they are meant to say something about the noun. 4.      Now, the teacher asks the class to get a partner. The pair goes in front and says something about her partner.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)	Activity + Game		5.      The students do it alternately. Until both partners are done.
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Assessment: Activities and Games		6.      The teacher gives each student something to describe. (A pencil, A cat, A table) 7.      The students should be able to describe the stuffs in details.
July 16/Tuesday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: ADVERBS
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Descriptions	Introduction: Activity	1.      The teacher shows a model to the student, the students describe what they see in the model. 2.      Next, the teacher gradually increases the characteristics of the model. As it increases, the students should be able to notice and say, how the model improves or otherwise. Ex: A glass of water, the teacher increases the amount of water inside. The students should be able to say; ‘The glass is half-full of water.’
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Reviews and Input Information		3.      The teacher continuously gives more examples. Until the students get to be more familiar and be able to say and use more Adverbs…the teacher explains, the Adverbs of Manner, Time, Place, Frequency and Comparison
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)	Oral/Speaking Skills	Assessment	4.      The teacher divides the class in three groups with at least three members each. The members of the group should be able to engage in a ‘make up conversation’ using Adverbs.
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Writing Skills	Assessment	5.      The students are given a set of table, the students should be able to completely fill-in the table.
July 18/Thursday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Preposition
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Eliciting information	Introduction	1.      The teacher begins the lesson, by asking questions like;     Where is your bag?       Where are your shoes?    Where is your mom? When is your birthday? *All possible questions that will lead students to use Prepositions.
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Activity	Distinguishing Prepositions	2.      The teacher hands students copies of; ‘poems, any write ups’. 3.      The students should be able to write all the prepositions in the poem.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)	Oral and Writing	Assessment	4.      The students are challenge into another activity. This time, the board in divided into two. 5.      A representative of each group goes in front. 6.      The teacher says a preposition and the students should be able to write a sentence using the said prepositions.
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)
July 22/Monday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Conjunction
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Introduction: Lectures		1.      The teacher talks about the definitions of conjunction. She makes it known to students the difference between ‘Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunction’
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Knowledge	Activities and Games	2.      The students give examples of each. 3.      Afterwards, the teacher shows pictures and students should be able to link each other using conjunctions. *All students should talk.
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)	Assessments: Oral and Written		4.      The students should be able to categorize what kind of conjunction the other group used. 5.      They must write their answers on paper.
July 25/Thursday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Interjection
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Knowledge	Activity	1.      The students are handed, a short story. The students should be able to tell what emotions are depicted in each event. They should be able to make use of interjections.
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)	Application/s		2.      The teacher pastes on the board some ‘Interjections’. She calls one student at a time to choose and make use of the interjection!
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)		Assessment	3.      The students finds their partner through the game; ‘Pairing Box.’ Each student gets an expression like; “Hey!”, “wow” or a sign like; ! *They need to get their correct pair. 4. If the students are able to find their partners, they must read it aloud or give examples/applicable situations  when they could make use of the expressions or signs.
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)
July 30/Tuesday(2:00-4:00pm)
Time/ Duration	Target	CATEGORY	Presentation/Activities Lesson: Parts of Speech: Overall Review
2:00-2:20 (20 mins)	Constructing Effective Sentences
2:20-2:40 (20 mins)
2:40-3:10 (30 mins)
3:10-3:30 (20 mins)