Lime green book with a cartoon girl’s face on it.
Lesson 4: Happy birthday! 1-20 flash cards for the Hopping and Rock-paper-scissors game.

Here is an intro worksheet, it's good for helping the class understand key expressions and vocab words.  Also, here is a typhoon game and the chipmunks singing happy birthday.

Thank you for awesome materials.

A ppt game with birthday cakes. Students have to ask "How old are you?" and then count the number of candles before the picture disappears.

I'm interested to see what people post here, since I'll be teaching this next week. Thanks for your ideas! :)

this may be a bit lame  but I want to put my five posts in! :)

when I taught this chapter, I got a box with a lid (a printer paper box--thanks Mi-jin!!!) and we followed the CD video clip. In it, Gina has a birthday and everyone gathers around her. they hand her a box and she says is it a doll? no it isn't, open it! she says wow its a robot.

I told the kids to shut their eyes (we just studied that in the previous chapter!) and I took something from the room and put it in the box. I handed the box to a student and said Happy Birthday, this is for you! and the student said, what is it? is it a doll? I said, no it isn't, open it. the kids all crowded around to see the eraser or whatever old thing I had in the box. They loved it! We built some new vocabulary at the same time. they either said, wow its an eraser, or they waited for me to identify the item and then repeated the sentence. I think my KT liked it too! she's old school grandmother and doesn't seem to appreciate my more uh "mobile" games!

four corner game sounds really good.  i'm gonna try this, many thanks to the creator.

This song goes well with lesson 4, story time.

I am using this song instead of song on page 47.

Have a fun with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQSbAff8xQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5bQOKSIsU

For introduction, I will show Gogo's birthday.
And then, do the lesson on counting and how old are you?

To practice the expressions in the first lesson "How old are you" &  I'm___ years old" we will play the game Pass It with music (probably happy birthday song). One random object is passed while a number card is passed and when the music stops, the Ss holding the random object must ask "How old are you?" and the other must answer according to the # card. Simple but it gets the job done.

Lesson 4 part 1:  Use the cards at the back of the book.  The teacher shouts out all numbers and the students put them in that order.  Teacher will start slow and then faster.
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Every class, I usually write a simple dialogue for the students to present in front of the class.   They love it!  Do it every class and its something they look forward to.

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