Session 1

1. Session 1

2. Session 1 • Pre-task • Material: Task 1 (Functions of a pot), eBook • Show the picture of the lid of a pot and ask learners to guess what it is. e.g. What is it? (Elicit creative responses from learners.) • Show the rest of the pot. Tell learners that it is a pot.Ask learners what are the functions of a pot.e.g. What do we use pots for? (Elicit learners’ different responses.) • Show the mind map on the board and put in learners correct responses. • Ask learners to open Task 1 (Functions of a pot). Ask learners to finish the mind map.

3. Session 1 • Pre-task • Material: Task 1 (Functions of a pot), eBook • Tell learners they are going to read a story about a special pot. • Open the eBook. Tell learners to look at the cover and ask questions about it.e.g. What can you see on the book cover? (A woman, a girl and a pot)What is the title of the story? (The title of the story is The Magic Porridge Pot.)What is the story about? (Elicit creative responses from learners.)

4. Session 1 • While-task • Material: eBook • First Reading • Play the eBook. • Ask predictive questions.e.g. What did the girl hear? (She heard a voice.)What happened next? (The little girl saw an old lady with a pot.) • Ask learners to predict what would happen by using pictures on the pages.

5. Session 1 • While-task • Material: eBook • Second Reading • Use shared reading to initiate learners’ participation. • Ask learners to join in reading at the entry point of what the little girl said to stop the magic porridge pot.

6. Session 1 • While-task • Material: eBook • Third Reading • Guide learners to read the story with the use of guiding questions. (Guided reading).e.g. Why was the girl crying? (Because she was hungry and she had no food to eat.)What did the old woman give to the little girl? (She gave her a magic pot.)

7. Session 1 • Post-task • Material: Task 2 (Let’s find out), eBook • Ask learners to open Task 2 (Let’s find out). Guide learners to finish Q1. • Motivate learners to read the whole story by challenging them to do Q2-3 on their own. • Ask learners to discuss Q5 in pairs or groups. • Invite learners to share their opinions orally.

8. Session 1 • Extended task • Material: Task 3 (Story map), eBook • Ask learners to open Task 3 (Story map). • Show the story map and help learners identify the story structure: ‘Title’, ‘Characters’, ‘Setting’, ‘Problem’, ‘Solution’ and ‘Ending’. • Guide learners to fill in ‘Characters’ and the first ‘Problem and Solution’. • Ask learners to finish the rest of the story map at home.

9. Session 2

10. Session 2 • Vocabulary (1) • Material: My Vocabulary List, AR activity • Retrieve learners’ prior knowledge about the story.e.g.Who helped the crying girl? (The old lady helped the crying girl.)The mother couldn’t stop the pot. What happened to the village? (The porridge was all over the village.) • Reread the story with learners’ participation. • Revise items of vocabulary with the use of My Vocabulary List.porridge, second, full, flooded, village, tasty, shocked, anxiously, shared • Guide learners to finish the AR activity

11. Session 2 • Vocabulary (2) • Material: Task 4 (Crossword puzzle) • Ask learners to open Task 4 (Crossword puzzle). • Guide learners to do Q1. Tell them they can find the words in the story. • Ask learners to finish the puzzle in pairs or groups. • Observe learners’ understanding of the vocabulary items.

12. Session 2 • Phonics • Material: Task 5 (Fun with words), Tongue Twister • Write down the word ‘pot’ on the board. Read it aloud and ask learners to follow. Tell them ‘pot’ is a word with short /o/ sound. • Tell them that they are going to read a tongue twister with lots of words with short /o/ sound. • Play the tongue twister. Teachers can read it aloud at a quicker pace as learners get familiar with it. • Practise the short /o/ sound with learners. • Ask learners to open Task 5 (Fun with words) and finish Part A. • Ask learners to listen to the tongue twister on their own and practise it.

13. Session 2 • Phonics • Material: Task 5 (Fun with words), Tongue Twister • Introduce the long /o/ sound, write down the word ‘stone’ on the board. • Tell learners that the /o/ sound here is different from that in the word ‘pot’. • Ask learners to find more words with the long /o/ sound in the book. • Ask learners to finish Part B. Remind them to read aloud the words aloud while doing the task.

14. Session 3

15. Session 3 • Recipe vocabulary • Material: Learning game (Magic Recipe) • Explain what a recipe is and tell learners that a recipe usually consists of two parts: ingredients(what we need) and procedures (what we do). • Introduce some of the vocabulary items included in the learning game.e.g. simmer, boil, fry, slice, chop, mince, peel, beat, mix, stir • Open the learning game and guide learners to finish Part 1. • Ask learners to finish the game at home. • Ask learners to search their favourite recipe at home and rewrite it following the format of the recipes shown in the game.

16. Session 3 • Grammar practice • Material: Grammar practice • The practice includes grammar points Countable/ Uncountable, some- / any- / no-, can / could. • Ask learners to finish the grammar practice at home.

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