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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book
Activities
Activity 37: The noun tree
Hasmik Perosyan – Armenian Republic
Age: 8–15
20–25 minutes Large classes? No Mixed level? Yes
Materials: Board and stickers.
Organisation: Whole class.
Aim: To practise pronouncing words and to develop written texts.
Description: The teacher draws a large tree and the children provide ‘leaves’ or ‘fruit’ by writing
nouns on pieces of paper to stick on the tree. The nouns are then made into sentences, and the
sentences into stories.
Preparation: You will need to cut sticky notes or pieces of paper into the shapes of leaves and
fruit, one for each child.
Procedure
1. Draw a large tree on the board with many branches.
2. Ask the children what is missing from the tree and elicit either ‘fruit’ or ‘leaves’.
Tell the children they are going to provide the fruit or leaves to the tree.
3. Give each child a piece of paper or sticky note cut into the shape of a leaf or a fruit.
Ask each child to think of a noun that they like in English and can say well and to write
it on the paper.
4. Ask each child to come up to the board with their leaf or fruit. Ask the child what noun they
have chosen and ask them to say it loudly with the correct pronunciation. They can then
stick it on the tree.
5. Now ask either the child or the class to make a sentence with the noun. The sentence can
be written on the board (by the teacher or by another child) or in the children’s books.
6. Continue until all the nouns are on the tree and all the sentences written.
7. Now ask the children to choose some of the sentences (you can say how many) to include
in a story. The best story gets a prize.
Notes
If you have an interactive whiteboard, you can prepare the tree in advance.
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