CATCH THE WIND

Module

The World Around Us

Unit

Wonderful Season and Weather

Key Stage Targets

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English

-to converse about feelings, interests and experiences(I.S.b)

-to provide or find out and present simple information on familiar topics (K.S.a)

-to interpret and use simple given information through processes or activities such as labelling, matching and classifying (K.S.b)

-to respond to characters and events in simple imaginative and other narrative textsthrough oral, written and performative means such as drawing pictures (E.S.b)

Programme Outline

On a very windy day, Geanie and Freddie feel that the wind is really naughty. The flowers that they want to pick are all blown away. Thinking that the wind is like a naughty boy, they decide to catch the wind themselves. Not knowing that the wind is colourless and invisible, they do not know why they cannot catch the wind. In order to find out more about wind, they search for wind in the dictionary. However, nothing appears on that page. ThenWind appears and talks to them. The children are then blown away together with wind and fly in the sky.What do you think the children are going to see in the sky? What else have they found out about wind? Is wind really so naughty? How can wind help people?

Learning Objectives

  1. to understand that wind is a powerful force in nature
  2. to understand that wind brings both positive and negative effects on human beings
  3. to enablepupils to develop appreciation for nature
  4. to enable pupils to develop their imagination through the personification of wind

Communicative Functions

  1. Describe the weather
  2. Express likes and dislikes
  3. Ask and describe what people are doing

Suggested Activities

  1. Motivate the class by asking pupils to talk about the weather. Introduce words like, sunny, wet, dry, rainy and windy. Then ask pupils to discuss what will happen on a windy day. Can pupils go out to play? What games can they play? Will they find it difficult on a windy day?
  1. Briefly introduce the programme outline to the pupils. Arouse their interest by asking them to guess what the characters think about wind. Will they like the wind? Can they work on a windy day? Draw the pupils’ attention to thegood and bad effects of the wind highlighted in the programme.
  1. Pupils complete Copymaster 1 after viewing the programme. Teachers can briefly describe each of the pictures briefly and let pupils decide whether the wind is naughty or a good friend to people. In Part 1b, pupils need to write a few sentences about their feelings towards wind. Encourage pupils to write what will happen on a windy day.

Examples: When the wind blows, we can fly kites. When the wind blows, leaves fall off the trees.

Teachers can ask pupils to read out their sentences in the class.

  1. Encourage pupils to read out aloud the poem in Copymaster 2.

Copymaster 1

Catch the Wind

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Part 1a

Is wind naughty or a friend to people?

Write a ( N ) next to those pictures when wind is naughty and a ( F ) next to pictures which show that wind is a friend.

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Part 1b

Is wind naughty or a friend to people? What do you think?

Write a few sentences about wind.

  1. Do you like wind?
  2. Is wind naughty or a friend to people?
  3. What will happen when the wind blows?

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Copymaster 2

Catch the Wind

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Part 2

Read it together

Wind

I like wind

It’s soft

It’s gentle

It’s playful

It’s fierce

It’s noisy

It’s strong

I do like wind