Henry & Lucy Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 205
Unit 5
Unit
4
5 The Pirate Adventure
Lesson 4
Objectives
New words
coral, octopus, seahorse, starfish, submarine, turtle
Lexical chunks and
pattern awareness
It’s a …..
Language functions
Story reading and comprehension
Materials
Word and picture cards: balloon fish, coral,
octopus, seahorse, starfish, submarine, turtle
Do you remember?
Ask: Who did Henry and Lucy find on the ship? (Captain Pete) Where do they want to go? (to
the pirate ship) How do you think they will get there?
1. Listen and Chant
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Play CD Track 84 and chant together with pupils.
Have pupils scan the chant and underline the rhyming words (trip, ship; way, today).
Ask pupils how many times the word find appears. (2) Ask what two things Henry and
Lucy want to find. (1 - the pirate ship, 2 - a way to help Captain Pete)
Elicit that an octopus will help them find the way to the pirate ship.
2. Read and Find Out
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Ask: How do you think the octopus will take Lucy, Henry and Captain Pete to the pirate
ship? Encourage pupils to make suggestions.
Have pupils read Frame 1 to find out. (the octopus will take them underwater) Elicit
what the problem of going underwater is. (can't breathe)
Have pupils read frame 2 to find the answer.
Ask pupils what story the octopus is going to tell them and why.
Elicit if any of pupils have read the book or seen the movie, “20,000 Leagues under the
Sea”. Explain how Jules Verne imagined the future and that his stories were fantastic
as he wrote about things like submarines, before they were ever invented.
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