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Hi everybody,

How are you all?

I'm afraid of bothering you with my lessons, but I do believe that you can add something new.

I have a lesson need to be presented following the strategies of Active Learning; co-operative learning, role playing, think-pair-share and problem solving.

I have several scattered ideas need to be arranged, but I couldn't do that.

Below you can see the picture of the lesson. It's only new words.

1-I think of having the lesson outside the class in the grass as having a picnic through which we can learn the new words from the environment around us.

2-To engage students in the teaching-learning process, I would like to choose one student to be my assistant then divide the class into several small groups.

3-some words like; "picking apples- fishing- chasing" I would like to distinguish them from exercises.

To make my idea more clear,

After learning the new words:' tree- branch- leaf- pond- flower- bee", I want to make exercise of having 2 teams fishing the new words from the pond -that we have previously made- then they can match the words with the pictures hanged on the tree.

By this way, I'll distinguish the 2 other new words" fishing- picking apple"

   4-Finally, I have one new word left which is " chasing". How can I present it in a way that goes with the atmosphere of the other exercises????

5- Regarding the opining of the lesson, I think of having snow white & the 6 dwarfs .

Snow white will be my assistant & the 7 dwarfs will be divided as the leaders of the small groups.

• My idea regarding that is having the 7 dwarfs learned the new words with the help of the other students, snow white & me.

What do you think?

Please if you have a way of developing my ideas or other ideas let me know.

Thank you so much