Year 1 - English
Asking and answering questions
Speaking and listening
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop speaking and listening skills by answering questions about themselves, giving and following instructions and retelling a story. They focus on clear speech, attentive listening, maintaining eye contact and responding in full sentences with relevant answers.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to listen to and answer questions about myself.
Key Notes
- Successful listening includes looking at the person speaking and paying close attention.
- Successful speaking includes speaking loudly and clearly enough for everyone to hear.
- Questions are sentences which ask something and require an answer.
- When answering questions, the response should be about the question.
- Speaking in full sentences helps the listener understand what is being said.
Vocabulary To Learn
- speaking: using your voice to talk to someone
- listening: paying attention to what someone is saying
- question: a type of sentence that asks the listener for an answer
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils will often answer questions with one word answers.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Successful listening includes looking at the person speaking and paying close attention. Successful speaking includes speaking loudly and clearly enough for everyone to hear.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'speaking'
using your voice to talk to someone.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils will often answer questions with one word answers. Correction: Model to pupils speaking in full sentences and always provide speaking frames (this can be verbally) to support pupils answering in full sentences.
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