Mrs Power/Mrs Keoghan

Additional resources for children who attend English language classes with Mrs. Keoghan/Mrs .Power

The themes for the month of June are ‘At the Beach’ and ‘Summertime’.

There are three levels of work to choose from:

Level One is for children who are new to the English language.

Level Two is for children who have a reasonable amount of English.

Level Three is for children who have a good grasp of English.

Choose a level which is best suited to your child and work away at a pace that suits your child. Repetition is really important.

Level One (Children who are new to the English language):

Vocabulary: summer, sun, sunscreen, sunhat, hot, holidays, sand, sandcastles, beach, swimming, swimsuit, towel, bucket, spade, shells, waves, picnic, ice-cream.

Can you draw a picture of yourself at the beach?

Draw a sandcastle, bucket, spade, waves and shells.

Don’t forget to draw your sunhat, swimsuit and towel too.

Game: can you find . . . .? https://youtube/Zlu75gJho.Pg

Summer Vocabulary: https://youtu.be/It78LRzQYo-S

Can you draw some pictures of things you like at the beach? e.g.,splashing in the water, eating ice-cream, building sandcastles etc.

My Country:

Where are you from?

Ask Mam/Dad to tell you which country you are from.

Do you have some photographs you could look at together?

Let’s Revise:

Days of the week : https://youtu.be/mXMOfxtDPUQ

Months of the year: https://youtu.be/IPeAo1hz8GA.

Seasons: https://youtu.be/8zj16fgYSy

Game: I spy with my little eye something that is red, green, blue etc.

Listen to a story on oxfordowl.com

Level Two (Children with a reasonable amount of English):

Vocabulary: Summer, sun, sunscreen, sunhat, hot, holidays, towel, sand, sandcastles, beach, swimming, bucket, spade, shells, waves, sunglasses, swimsuit, flipflops, bikini, ice-cream, picnic

Song: Let’s go to the beach: https://youtu.be/EcBhiDqyibo

Summer Vocabulary; https://youtu.be/H78LRzQYo-S

Draw a beach picture and label it: sand, waves, bucket, spade, sandcastle, shells.

Don’t forget to draw yourself and label your sunhat, swimsuit and flipflops.

Let’s revise

clothes: https://youtu.be/Q-EwuVHDb5 https://youtu.be/pHer1COWyrQ

Draw a washing line.

Draw clothes on your washing line and label them – shirt, skirt, tie, jumper, trousers, socks, vest etc.

My Country:

Where are your family from?

Ask Mam or Dad to tell you about the country that your family is from.

How is it different to Ireland?

How is it the same?

Have you any photographs that you could look at together?

Let’s Revise:

Days of the week: : https://youtu.be/mXMOfxtDPUQ

Months of the year: https://youtu.be/IPeAO1hz8GA

Seasons: https://youtu.be/8zj16fgYSy

Counting to twenty Listen to a story on oxfordowl.com or audiblestories.com

Level Three (Children with a good grasp of English):

Vocabulary :towel, bucket, shovel, bikini, parasol, sunscreen, sunbathe, sandcastles, sunburn, jellyfish, snorkles, surf, paddle, jetskis, sailing, flipflops, lifeguard, wetsuit

At the beach vocabulary: https;//youtu.be/18u-BqOQo5s

Write a paragraph about a day at the beach.

What did you bring with you?

What did you do?

Pick six words from the vocabulary above and put them into sentences.

My Country:

Find out some facts about the country you are from.

Write a paragraph about it.

How is it similar to Ireland?

How is it different to Ireland?

Ask Mam or Dad for help.

Pick your favourite book- read aloud to improve your fluency.

Listen to some stories on oxfordowl.com or www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elvenses/ A good resource for extra comprehension is CJ Fallons workbooks online.

Click on https:/my.cjfallon.ie Click student resources then filter to the class (4th) and title you require ‘Let’s Go’.

There are comprehensions and questions you can work through.

Keep a diary for a week.

Focus on your sentence structure and grammar.