Talk to Beeno Course Intro

Presentation Outline:

1. Warm-up Song: ABC Rock

2. Talk to Beeno Syllabus

a new 6-level, 3-year pre-primary course for very young learners across Asia
communicative approach coursebook
2 modules / per level
3 units / per module
4 pages / per unit (Topic page, Let's Sing, Let's speak, Let's listen)
3-5 words / per topic
1 sentence pattern / per topic
Content page
Let's say it again page (ball-passing game for review everyday English)
Let's have fun page

3. A unit walk-through

4. Fun surprises in Talk to Beeno (flaps, stickers, turnable trays)

5. Components of Talk to Beeno (Big Book, CD, Beeno puppet, Teacher's Guide, VCD, CD-ROM)

6. How to use Teacher's Guide (Game examples: Point and Say; Alphabet Mix-up; Find Your Match; Phonics Find; Secret Picture)

7. Demo Teach (Unit 3, Level 1: Playing in the Classroom)

(1) Warm-up: use flash cards to review words – Beeno, Tommy, Peggy, boy, girl

(2) Lead-in: lead in new words in this unit – stand up, sit down, line up

A: do actions of hands up, hands down

Boys, hands up.

Boys, hands down.

Girls, hands up.

Girls, hands down.

B: do actions of stand up, sit down, review sentence structure: I'm a boy/girl.

Now, boys, stand up, please. Say 'I'm a boy.'

Good. Sit down, please. Now, girls, stand up, please. Say 'I'm a girl.'

Good. Sit down, please.

C: do actions of stand up, sit down, line up

Now, boys and girls, listen carefully.

Girls stand up.

Boys stand up.

Boys sit down.

Girls line up.

Boys line up here.

(3) Pre-task: present and practice new words – stand up, sit down, line up; play Musical Chairs for story-telling preparation

A: flash cards recognition

Look at the cards I have here.

Look at this card, 'Sit down?' No. 'Stand up?' Yes.

Look at this one, 'Sit down?' Yes.

What about this one? Yes, 'Line up.'

B: Do actions of the cards.

C: Number the cards.

D: Play Musical Chairs game

Now, let's play a game of Musical Chairs. We'll listen to music, and we dance, and then, I'll stop the music, and I'll say, for example, 'Sit down, please.' And everybody should sit down as quickly as possible. (Play music several times, ask students to sit down, stand up, line up, etc.)

(4) Task: story telling

A: Story telling

Now, boys and girls, look at this picture now. Where is it?

Is it a bedroom? (TPR)

Is it a kitchen? (TPR)

Yes, it's a classroom.

What can you see in this classroom?

What can you see outside the classroom?

Who are in the classroom?

We study in the classroom. We read, we write in the classroom. But we also play games in the classroom.

What do the students do? They play. We just played a game, Musical Chairs, do you still remember?

The students in the classroom also play Musical Chairs. Who plays the music? Yes, Miss Chan plays the music.

And the music stops. What does Miss Chan say? Guess! Look at the boys and girls. Do they sit down? Do they stand up? What does Miss Chan say? Yes, Miss Chan says, 'Stand up, please.'

And everybody is standing up. Look at me, I stand up very straight. I'm nervous. Can you stand up very straight?

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B: Listen to CD

C: Ask questions about the story

Who is the teacher? (Miss Chan)

How many students in the classroom? How many boys? How many girls?

How many chairs?

When Miss Chan says, 'Stand up, please.' Does everyone stand up? (Yes.)

When Miss Chan says, 'Sit down, please.' Does Beeno sit on the chair? (No, Beeno sits on the floor.)

D: Role play the story

(5) After-task Reinforcement: Song

(6) Consolidation