English Literacy Discovery ( Part 5 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)

• Form a circle holding hands and facing the center.
• Invite participants to do four actions as directed by the facilitator. These actions are jump in, jump out, jump left, and jump right. For example, if the facilitator says jump in, everyone holding hands has to jump inside the circle. On the other hand, if the facilitator says jump out, everyone has to jump back. Remember while doing the activity to hold each other’s hands and to not let go at any moment.
• Start with copying the facilitator’s directions. For example, when the facilitator says “jump in”, participants should say “jump in” and jump inside. When the facilitator says “jump out”, participants should say “jump out” and follow the direction.

• Now add a twist to make it more challenging. The facilitator will say a direction which participants will follow but they will say the reverse. For example, the facilitator will say “jump in” and participants will jump inside but they will say “jump out”.

Main activity (70 minutes)

Part 1 – Review (10 minutes)

Ask the participants if they found some words with the letter from FOOD that they were attribute. 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 letters of FOOD (name of the letter and pronunciation of the letter) learned 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 “HOSPITAL” (40 minutes)

• Discovering the word HOSPITAL: ask the participants if they know what does it means. Ask them if they see any letters in it that they already know. They should know O, I, L.
• Ask the participants to circle in their alphabet sheet the letters that compose the word HOSPITAL. Help them if needed. When they all found in their alphabet sheet all the letters that compose the word “HOSPITAL”, 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 HOSPITAL 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 HOSPITAL, 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 – Word Puzzle & Word race (15 minutes)

• Ask the participants to find the word “HOSPITAL” in the Word Puzzle. (4.1)
• 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 HOSPITAL 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 “FOOD” 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.