TN-Queens_Birthday_4-6.pdf

Teacher’s Notes

QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY

by Małgorzata Krzemińska-Adamek

Type of activity : whole-class, pair work and

individual work

Focus : vocabulary connected with royalty and family

members, have got and possessive s (for receptive

use), reading skills

Level : elementary, grades 4-6

Time : 35 minutes

the text below the tree and complete it with the

names of the royal family members. After 4-5

minutes check the answers.

Answers :

Preparation : Photocopy students’ worksheets

(1 and 2) – one per student.

Procedure:

1. Write on the board:

Elizabeth 85

this Queen

year.

Ask students to quickly put the words in the

correct order to make a sentence: Queen Elizabeth

is 85 this year . Ask if they know who Queen

Elizabeth is. You may expect the children to know

that she is the Queen of the United Kingdom but

explain that she is also the Queen of Canada,

Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and other

countries in the so-called Commonwealth,

although they have their separate governments.

Tell the students that the Queen has got two

birthdays: the real one on April 21 and the ofﬁ cial

one on a Saturday in June (this year June 11). Ask

the students if they know/can guess why this is so

(the latter one is organized later because the

weather is usually better at that time and people

can participate in the events). Ask if the students

know any other members of the royal family.

Accept all good answers but do not reveal too

much information at this point.

2. Revise the vocabulary connected with the family

(family members): father, mother, sister, brother,

child/children, son, daughter, grandchildren,

grandson/granddaughter etc. Teach the word

sibling(s) . Distribute Worksheet 1 (one per

student). Explain that in the worksheet there is a

simpliﬁ ed version of the Windsor family tree,

starting from Queen Elizabeth. Tell students that

horizontal relations refer to siblings, not to

marriages. Give the students some time to look at

the family tree and perhaps, if you think the

students are able to do it, complete it with pieces

of missing information. Ask the students to read

3. Tell the students to read the riddles and check

their understanding. Ask them to read the text

again and look at the completed family tree and

solve the riddles (you may allow the students to

work in pairs for this activity).

Answers : 1. Prince Andrew, 2. Princess Anne, 3.

Prince Harry, 4. Princess Beatrice, 5. Queen

Elizabeth

4. Distribute Worksheet 2. Tell the students that

they are going to write a postcard to the Queen.

Explain that they may write birthday wishes

(which is a usual thing to do for many English

children). They may also write to say what they

think about the royal family, about England etc.

Encourage the students to cut out the postcard

and decorate it on the other side. Monitor the

activity. Help with language if necessary. Display

the ready postcards in the classroom.

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