This lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about parts of the human body. It includes various games and activities to practice vocabulary for both external and internal body parts, as well as a project on healthy lifestyles. The 90-minute plan involves labeling body diagrams, singing a song about skeletons, creating monsters, quizzes, and designing posters or surveys on health. Students work in groups and pairs to reinforce the vocabulary through different interactive exercises.
This lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about parts of the human body. It includes various games and activities to practice vocabulary for both external and internal body parts, as well as a project on healthy lifestyles. The 90-minute plan involves labeling body diagrams, singing a song about skeletons, creating monsters, quizzes, and designing posters or surveys on health. Students work in groups and pairs to reinforce the vocabulary through different interactive exercises.
This lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about parts of the human body. It includes various games and activities to practice vocabulary for both external and internal body parts, as well as a project on healthy lifestyles. The 90-minute plan involves labeling body diagrams, singing a song about skeletons, creating monsters, quizzes, and designing posters or surveys on health. Students work in groups and pairs to reinforce the vocabulary through different interactive exercises.
This lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about parts of the human body. It includes various games and activities to practice vocabulary for both external and internal body parts, as well as a project on healthy lifestyles. The 90-minute plan involves labeling body diagrams, singing a song about skeletons, creating monsters, quizzes, and designing posters or surveys on health. Students work in groups and pairs to reinforce the vocabulary through different interactive exercises.
The lesson plan provides details about teaching parts of the body vocabulary to primary level students.
The lesson plan is about teaching parts of the body vocabulary through various games and activities.
The activities included in the lesson plan are games, songs, quizzes, labeling body outlines, describing people, and creating healthy lifestyle posters.
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Parts of the body
Topic Parts of the human body
Aims To practise (depending on stages chosen): vocabulary: words for external and internal parts of the body, describing people structure: can for actions, should and shouldnt curricular work: healthy lifestyle skills: integrated skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
Age group Primary
Level A1/A2
Time 90 minutes approximately (depending on stages chosen)
Materials Please note: to access the downloadable worksheets, you need to log in separately to LearnEnglish Kids. 1. Game: Clowns face label the picture http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/label-the-picture/clowns-face 2. Game: Human body find the pairs http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/find-the-pairs/human-body 3. Song, activity sheet, answers and lyrics: The scary skeleton http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/the-scary-skeleton 4. Game: Make your monster http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/make-your-monster 5. Game: Parts of the body hangman http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/hangman/parts-the-body 6. Quiz: Human body http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/play-with-friends/quiz-human-body 7. Game: Face match http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/face-match 8. Game: Human body balloon burst spelling http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/balloon-burst/human-body
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9. Your turn: Hair http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/your-turn/hair 10. Outline of human body handout (stage 2) 11. Large pieces of paper for posters (stage 5)
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Introduction In this lesson, students will review or be introduced to vocabulary for parts of the body. They will either sing a song about parts of the body and extend their language through inventing a monster, or they can focus on internal parts of the body through a quiz, and practise describing peoples faces in detail. Finally, they can complete a project on how to have a healthy lifestyle.
Procedure 1. Introduce the topic (5 mins) Depending on what your students already know, introduce or revise basic vocabulary for parts of the body by indicating different parts of your own body and getting students to copy. You might want to introduce only basic parts, such as head, leg, nose, etc, or you could introduce more difficult parts like wrist, elbow, eyebrows, etc. Play a game of Simon Says with the different body parts you introduced. 2. Focus on vocabulary (15 20 mins) Ask students to draw an outline of a body in their notebooks, or draw one yourself to provide as a handout. They should try to label the outline with as many body parts as possible. Write the words on the board to help them. Ask them to colour the outline in lots of different colours. Now ask students to draw another outline or provide a second copy. Students work in pairs and dictate to each other what colour each body part is, without showing each other, e.g. student A says My head is green and student B colours the head on their blank outline green. When they have finished, they can compare pictures. You might like to drill some of the more difficult language before doing the activity. Finally, play a game. If you would like to focus on parts of the face, try the Clowns face label the picture game. For basic parts of the body, you could try the Human body find the pairs game. 3. Extension for lower levels (30 mins) Give students the activity sheet for The scary skeleton song. Ask them to complete exercise 1 label the picture of the skeleton. Play the song. Ask students to listen and touch each part of their body when they hear it in the song. After the song, practise some of the lines together, touching the relevant part of the body as you say it. Play the song again and encourage students to sing along to the lines you practised. Now play the Make your monster game. Students can choose the colour of the body, then they can choose the different body parts. For listening practice, they can also listen to what body parts the monster himself wants and choose accordingly. Finally, they can make the monster do different actions!
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Students can then invent and draw their own monsters. Encourage them to be creative. When they have finished, students can label their monster and write about it what colour or how many body parts it has, what actions it can do and they can choose a name for it. Monitor and help as necessary. Display the monsters around the room and allow students time to look at and read about each others monsters. 4. Extension for higher levels (30 mins) For higher levels, you could introduce some of the internal parts of the body, for example brain, lungs, heart, bones, muscles, intestines, stomach. Ask students to indicate where in the body they are and what their function is. To practise some of the words, play the Parts of the body hangman game. Now try the Human body quiz. Put the class into teams, and play the two-player version of the quiz. Which facts in the quiz did they find the most interesting? Next, play the Face match game. Students can either read or listen to the descriptions of the people, then choose the right one. You may need to check extra vocabulary, such as freckles or moustache, and ways of describing hair. Finally, students can imagine their own scenario where they need to find a person. Display one of the selection of faces from the game on the board. Students secretly choose one of the faces. Then they write a text similar to the texts in the game, describing the person they are looking for. Monitor and help as necessary. They can swap texts with a partner and try to identify the person their partner was describing. 5. Project (20 mins) As a class project, discuss with your students what you need to do to look after your body and stay fit and healthy. Brainstorm ideas of good and bad things on the board, for example drink water, do exercise, eat junk food or play games all night. For lower level students, ask them to make a healthy lifestyle poster. They can draw pictures to show good and bad things to do and either simply label each one or write sentences to say what you should or shouldnt do. Monitor and help as necessary. Display the posters around the room. Who has the best advice? For higher level students, ask them to design a survey. They write five yes/no questions about a healthy lifestyle in their notebooks, e.g. Do you exercise every day? Monitor and help as necessary. Students now survey their classmates, putting a tick or a cross next to each question. After the survey, show students how to make a bar chart to represent the answers. If you have some grid paper, they can use this. Do an example on the board. Demonstrate counting the ticks for each question, then colouring that number of squares. How healthy are the students lifestyles? 6. Round off activity (5 mins) Play the Human body balloon burst game in teams to review basic parts of the body and their spelling. 7. Setting homework (5 mins) Lower level students can listen to the song again and complete the remaining exercises on the activity sheet. Higher level students can play the quiz or the Face match game again. If they are members of LearnEnglish Kids, they can also read comments on the Hair Your turn and leave their own comments on the page.