English Literacy Discovery (Part 3 out of 8)

Introduction (5 minutes)

• Welcome the participants
• Remind the participants the general objective of the course
• Introduce the session of the day (objective and how long it will be)

Ice-breaking game (10 minutes)

• Explain that you are going to do an ice-breaking game to warm up the participants and to help them to improve their listening and concentration skills during the session.
• Ask everyone to stand up in a scattered way
• Tell them that you are going to make some continuous rhythm. They have to hear the rhythm carefully. If the rhythm:

1. fastens, they have to move fast.
2. slows down, they have to move slow
3. stops, they have to stop moving

• Remind them to be careful of not pushing each other
• Do this game for 3 to 6 minutes
• Conclude the game by thanking the participants for their participation.

Main activity (70 minutes)

Part 1 – Review (10 minutes)

Ask the participants if they found any words with “H” and “I” in it. Write them down on the board, explain the meaning of them and the names of the other letters in it. Ask them to say out loud the 2 letters (name of the letter and pronunciation of the letter) learnt during the previous workshop. Ask them to write them down a couple of times in their notebook, capital and small letters.

Part 2 – the word “Hello” (40 minutes)

• Discovering the word Hello: ask the participants if they know what does “Hello” means. Ask also if they know the difference between “Hello” and “Hi”. Explain that “Hi” is more familiar than “Hello”.
• Ask the participants to circle in their alphabet sheet the letters that compose the word “Hello”. Help them if needed. Explain that the letter “L” is repeated here. When they all found in their alphabet sheet all the letters that compose the word “Hello”, repeat the name of the letter and how we pronounce them. Repeat several times with them, and then them alone.
• Ask the participants to copy the letters of HELLO in their notebook. For each letter, show them step by step how to ‘draw’ the letter. Take the time to do it several times, at least each letter should be copied 20 times, more is better.
• Using the cards that match the letters of HELLO, choose one and ask the participants to say the name of the letter and pronounce it. Ask them to do it several times. You can ask each participant to repeat the name and pronunciation of the letter individually.

Part 3 – Alphabet Puzzle & Word race (15 minutes)

• Ask the participants to find the word “HELLO” in the Word Puzzle. (2.1). The solution is available in 2.2 for the facilitator.
• Game: Divide the class into two teams. Have one member of each team race to the front of the room and write the first letter of the word HELLO on the board (one part of the board for each team). Then the first runner comes back, the second runner starts (like relay race) and has to write the second letter of the word and so on until all the letters learnt today have been written. The first team to complete will win.

Conclusion (5 minutes)

• Thank the participants for their involvement and concentration during the session.

Summarize what was learnt during the session: Today we learnt the letters of our names.

Ask the participants to recite one by one the letters of their names.

• For each participant, give him/her a letter that is in the word “Hello” and ask him/her to find a word in the camp that has this letter. Several participants can have the same letter depending on the size of the group.
• Collect feedback from the participants. Ask questions like: Do you feel that you learnt something during the session? Do you think this new knowledge can be useful to you? Were you comfortable during the session?
• Give the date and location of the next session to the participants, make sure everybody will be available. If not, find a more convenient time and place so everybody can be here.