What's missing?

Objective & content

By the end, A1- pupils can name everyday things from memory and say which one has gone, with there is / there isn't and Is it the ...?: The rabbit is missing! The bank is 17 projectable slides: a how-to slide, then 8 rounds of two slides each. The first slide of a round shows nine labelled pictures (animals, food, clothes, the classroom, toys and transport, the home); the second shows the same grid with one picture gone.

Pedagogical guide

Use it as a five-minute warm-up to revise core vocabulary. Looking at the nine pictures and saying them together is the practice; the missing picture gives every pupil a reason to remember the words. Because the class can guess wrongly first (Is it the dog? No, it isn't.), pupils use the question form as well as the word. The rounds are interchangeable: play one or two per lesson.

Suggested procedure

1. (1 min) Show the how-to slide and read the example together.
2. (1 min) Show the nine pictures. Pupils look and say the words together.
3. (1 min) Pupils close their eyes. Show the next slide.
4. (2 min) Pupils say what's missing. Play a second round if there is time.

Adaptations

• [S] Point at the pictures as the class says them, and give the first sound of the missing word.
• [A] Hide the screen and pupils write the nine words from memory, or a pupil chooses the missing word and the class asks Is it the ...?.

Materials & prerequisites

A projector or screen; the bank is a 16:9 PDF, one slide per page, with no printing needed. Assumes the words of the sets have been met once.