The planets ( A tutor is teaching two boys English.) | Teaching English | British Council

Teaching planFirst step: I am making this model of the solar system. Teacher: Let’s start. Do you know what they are? Who can tell me what they are in English?(I point to the sun.) This is the sun. Is the sun star? Star (I draw a 五角星) Yes, it is. The sun is star. This is Earth. Is Earth star? No, it isn’t. Earth is planet.Planets (I show the picture of planets). Plan-ets planetEarth goes around the sun. Planets go around the star. Nine planets go around the sun. What are the names of these planets?This planet is Mercury. Mer-cu-ry Mercury. This planet is Venus. Ve-nus Venus . This planet is Earth. Ear-th Earth. This planet is Mars. Mar-s Mars . This planet is Jupiter. Ju-pi-ter Jupiter This planet is Saturn. Sat-urn SaturnThis planet is Uranus. u-ra-nus Uranus This planet is Neptune. Nep-tune Neptune This planet is Pluto. Plu-to PlutoOne two three four five six seven eight nineFirst second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth Mercury is the first from the sun.Venus is the second from the sun. Earth is the third from the sun.Mars is the fourth from the sun. Jupiter is the fifth from the sun.Saturn is the sixth from the sun. Uranus is the seventh from the sun.Neptune is the eighth from the sun. Pluto is the ninth from the sun.big (use hand to show big) small Small is opposite big. cold (use body to show) hot Hot is opposite cold. big bigger the biggest Which is the biggest (planet)? Jupiter is the biggest planet.Small smaller the smallestWhich is the smallest (planet)? Pluto is the smallest planet. Hot hotter the hottestWhich is the hottest (planet)? Mercury is the hottest planet. Cold colder the coldest Which is the coldest (planet)? Pluto is the coldest planet. Why is Mercury the hottest? Mercury is the nearest the sun. Near . I near you. Near . Ben’s home is near 华强 primary school. Near. Ben’s home is near Tom’s home. Near (point Earth) nearer (point Venus) the nearest (point Mercury)Earth is near the sun. Venus is nearer than Earth. Mercury is the nearest the sun. Far is opposite near. (opposite: black colour is opposite white colour)My home is far away from your home. No.26 middle school is far from Tom’s home. Far (Uranus) further(Neptune) the furthest (Pluto)Uranus is far from the sun. Neptune is further than Uranus. Pluto is the furthest from the sun. Why is Pluto the coldest? Because Pluto is the furthest from the sun. Let’s draw the solar system in paper and colour them by water colour pen. Mars is red. Mars is the nearest planet from Earth. Jupiter is the biggest.Mercury is the nearest. Mercury is small. Pluto is the furthest.Saturn is the second biggest. Saturn is golden and yellow. Neptune is blue and green.Saturn has ring. Uranus has ring, tooEarth is blue planet. There are some green on Earth. Moon goes around Earth. This is orbit. We can draw nine orbits of nine planets. The orbit is around the sun.Or-bit orbit (draw orbits and write down its name.) Have a break ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Can we travel in space? How do we get there?By plane? By bus? Or by bike?We can take by rocket. (show the picture of rocket.)Rock-et rocket This is spacecraft.(show the picture of spacecraft) Spacecraft is on the top of rocket. Space-craft spacecraft The rocket was launched from the space station. (show the picture of launch)Laun-ch launch How do we get into space? We can take by rocket.. Which way did the rocket go?It went away from the space station. (show the picture of launch and the picture of went away from. To use the model of rocket, it is moving on the picture )It went through air. It went towards Moon. It went past Moon.It went into orbit.It went around Earth. Review: went around, went through, went past, went into, went towards, and went away from. Do again: It went away from the space station. (show the picture of launch and the picture of went away from. To use the model of rocket, it is moving on the picture )It went through air. It went towards Moon. It went past Moon.It went into orbit.It went around Earth. Who is he? (show the picture of astronaut) He is astronaut.As-tro-naut astronaut Where is he from?He is from America.He is American.Where’s he? He is on the Moon. What did he do? He had a space walk. ( show the picture of space walk) Last 5 minuses: The game: handyman
In my mind I have a word. This word is in these words list. This word has 6 letters. Tom and Ben have to guess which letter on the line. Each boy has turn to guess. Guess wrong you will get a draw line of handyman. When your handyman draw all line before you can guess right the word. You are out. You are lost. To win this game you have to guess right more than guess wrong. The class is over.