Unit 4 - Colors

COLORS

OBJECTIVES 

• Teach ESL/EFL young learners names of colors in English.
• To enable learners give physical description of things by their color.

AGENDA 

1. Warm-up
2. Eliciting 
3. Play "stand up and jump"
4. Color circle activity
5. Classroom video, What color am I wearing? 
6. Worksheet "Color of the rainbow"
7. Clouser: Song "The rainbow song

WARM-UP

Sit everyone in a circle around you and throw (or roll) a ball to each student randomly. As you do so, ask questions, starting from the simple (What's your name?, How are you?) to more involved questions (Where do you live?, What is your favorite food, Do you like Superman?, Can you fly? etc.). You can review questions from previous lessons and introduce new questions. 

ELICITING 

Hold up the first colored paper and elicit the color (e.g. red). Chorus and practice saying the color. Then pass the colored paper around the class so each student can hold and say the color. Do this for the rest of the colors.

PLAY "STAND UP AND JUMP"

Give out all of the colored papers, 1 color per student. Tell your students to sit down. Say a color (e.g. "red") and the students holding that color have to quickly stand up, jump and then sit down. Start off slowly and get faster and faster.

COLOR CIRCLE ACTIVITY

Prepare 7 large sheets of white paper (or if you are teaching fewer colors that day, enough sheets of paper for the colors you are teaching). On each sheet draw a large circle that fills up the sheet. Then stick the sheets on the walls of the classroom, at height, your students can reach. At this point in your lesson, take out your colored pencils/crayons, and demonstrate the activity. Walk around the class and color a small part of each circle with one color (always say the color as you are coloring). So there will be one circle with some red color in it, one with yellow, and so on. Next, tell your students to take out their colored pencils/crayons. Have them walk around the classroom, coloring in a bit of each circle with the same colors you used. Make sure they say the color as they do each coloring.

CLASSROOM VIDEO  " WHAT COLOR AM I WEARING? 

This classroom video reader ties in perfectly with the topic. 

WORKSHEET "COLOR OF THE RAINBOW"

To finish off this section of the lesson, give out the worksheets. As your students are doing the worksheets, ask questions (e.g. "What color is that?", etc.).

CLOUSER " THE RAINBOW SONG"

The first time you play the song, put up the Rainbow Song song poster on the board. Quickly elicit the colors. Play the song and sing along, touching the colors as you sing. You can even invite a student to come up to the board and touch the colors with you. Next, give out all 7 colors (e.g. colored paper, pencils, etc.) to each student. Get each student to lay out the colors in front of him/her, in the order of the song. As you pay the song again, have all students touch each color and sing along.