Target English: Where are you going? + place names
Target grade: Kindergarten to Junior High school
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Song: The "Where are you going?" Song can be found in the Teacher's Set
Pronunciation Guide/Interactive
Quiz: can be found in the Teacher's Set
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I often try to introduce a bit of foreign culture into my classrooms
by using pictures taken on my trips abroad. Combined with the song they
provide a big, multimedia learning environment!! You can also interchange
any of the vocab here with the new "Where do you live?" theme, which is really useful for broadening the kids' use of the
English they know.
| Where are you going? by Richard Graham Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? I'm going to the sea I'm going to the mountains I'm going to the pool I'm going to the beach Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? I'm going to school I'm going to the shops I'm going to the park I'm going home Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? |
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@In the classroom or at home ........
This is a great song! The best way to teach this song is to split the kids
into 2 groups. You sing "I'm going to the beach" etc., then one
groups says "beach", and then the other groups says "beach"
- seeing who can sing the loudest! Then you can switch groups so the other
group goes first. Here the kids learn the rhythm and the vocab, and naturally
learn the sentence structure. Don't forget the gestures!
I'm going to the sea
I'm going to the mountains
I'm going to the pool
I'm going to the beach ( build a sandcastle)
Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Where are you going?
I'm going to school ( writing )
I'm going to the shops ( carrying heavy bags)
I'm going to the park ( on a swing)
I'm going home
As I mentioned above, one of
the best uses
of this song is to use pictures
of various
places (such as beach, parks,
etc.). either
from different countries, or
from your own
travels. Teach the different
words and then
let the kids see the pictures,
they almost
certainly have a load of questions
to ask
you! Interesting things are the
best, such
as scuba diving pictures for
"sea"!
The idea of splitting the kids into 2 groups works wonders! I usually then
say that one group has won, really heaping praise on them, and then wait
for the other group to start chanting "Try again!". It works
great for motivation and is my best trick for making very ungenki 5th and
6th graders back to being genki again!
Recommended Games:
Soldiers & Ninjas - Island Hopping - Newspaper Sumo
or any of the conversation games on the page are great practice!
Worksheet:
The kids can have a look at the software and write down the name of each
place. Another way is to colour in and cut out the places and play the
Karuta game, everyone says "Where are you going?", the quiz master
answers "I'm going to" plus one of the answers and the others
have to slap their hands down on the correct picture! The quickest one
gets the card.
On the CD....
As with the other songs there is a pronunciation guide and mini-game! Plus
the music for this song is full on James Brown style funk - just the thing
to get the kids genki!
The "Where are you going?" song
can be found on CD vol. II !
Click here to order!
Readers' Comments
by Gumby
Put up pictures in the corner or on each wall and have students go to any
of the pictures. Then they ask you "Where are you going?" You
say a place that then becomes no longer safe and those students have to
run to a different place, before you catch them. You can yourself godzilla
or some other popular villian.
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