PART 5 --- Flash card

When students have learned some simple greeting conversation and memorized basic colors, teacher could begin trying teaching some more vocabulary. Teacher can let students learn a group of nouns which are relative to the same topic, short, specific and commonly visible, such as flowers, grass, trees, house etc. Besides, for the students on the very beginning level, the plural words, vowel-initiated words or the verbs had better be avoid, and the definite article should not be emphasized too obviously. Grasp the point that the first step of teaching vocabulary is to let students adapt to the word structure, and it would become easier to teach the new comers.

What is it?
It is a _____.
flower / tree / grass / house / bench

Before the activity, teacher uses the flash cards, on which there are the objects taught in class, around the classroom, and just points at one of them and make students to speak out the correct word without a complete sentence. Later, if students get acquaint with those vocabulary, teacher could move to the step of making students utilize a short sentence to express the stuff. For example, teacher points at the tree and asks “What is it?”, and the student should reply “It is a tree.” In the end of this activity, teacher could let students work in pair, coming to the front and do the simple dialogue. For instance, student Stacy asks her partner Joy one of the stuff in the poster “Joy, what is it?”, and Joy replies “It is a flower.” Also, Joy has to ask another thing to Stacy, such as the bench, “Stacy, what is it?”, and Stacy replies”It is a bench.”