LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 52
HOTS: INFER
What do you think the poem’s title means? (That February came too late and they ran out
of days.)
EXTRA: Since you are working on a poem with the students, it’s an excellent opportunity to
work on rhythm. Explain that when we read a poem we stress the last words of the line,
usually the ones that have a rhyming word in the next lines.
In this poem it’s important to read it stressing the bold words:
There are thirty days in September,
In April, and in June and also in November.
There are seven months that get more sun,
Because these months have thirty-one!
There is only one month that comes too late –
It’s February, with twenty-eight.
Have the students read after you and play around with the beat in the poem.
Post Reading
11. Let’s Complete!
Have the students do the exercise in their notebooks. They should write the month and the
number of days next to each one.
12. Let’s Write!
Have the students answer the questions in their notebooks. When they are finished, check
their answers.
Answers:
1. They have 31 days.
HOTS: INFER
2. February came too late and they ran out of days to give it.
WKBK: Have the students turn to workbook pages 21-22 and do exercises 11-12.
Pages 18-19
13. It’s About Time!
Review telling time with the class just to make sure they are all familiar with it. If they
aren’t, this is an opportunity to teach them how to tell time in English and even compare it
to their own language.
Remind the students that in English we say the time
differently. We say o’clock as in ten o’clock and not
just ten or thirty as in ten thirty and not ten and a half.
Have the students read the time below each picture.
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ALC: Students become familiar with
different cultural practices.
