Fish and Chips Go to School

Objective & content

Fish and Chips get ready for school. Fish packs a book, a pen and a pencil, then, being "a real expert", a chair and a desk, until the bag is taller than he is and he falls over backwards. Chips only takes one pencil. The vocabulary is six classroom words: bag, book, pen, pencil, desk and chair. The grammar is the demonstrative this in the fixed test question "What's this?" / "And this?", with short answers such as "Book!". Pupils listen, point at the objects and repeat the words: no reading or writing is asked.

Materials & prerequisites

The folder holds no printable sheets and no lesson plan. You need the episode audio and slideshow, and real classroom objects if you want pupils to point at a bag, a book, a pen, a pencil, a desk and a chair. No prior grammar is assumed.

Curriculum alignment

Tagged `c3-child-and-close-environment`: cycle 3 (6e), the child and the close environment. The episode targets CEFR level A0- (pre-A1), with listening comprehension and vocabulary building as the skills.