Adventure City Teachers’ Guide
Unit name
Theme
Number of Lessons
Learning Goals
At School (unit # 4)
At school: school related vocabulary and activities
8 - 10
 Pupils will be able to recognize the following letters
and their sounds; c,b,t,a,s,e,l,m
 Pupils will be able to understand, recognize and use
 school related vocabulary.
 sentence structures and instructions such
as: Where is, where are.. Click on the … find
the… look and listen …Drag the picture… Sit
down, stand up, sleep, smile…
prepositions: on, under, near, in
Story
Vocabulary
Max is Late for School
ant, apple, bag, ball, balloon, banana, bat, bell, book, boy, cactus,
camel, cake, cat, crayons, cookie, elephant, eleven, egg, eyes,
laugh, letter, listen, love, look, map, mat, mouse, money, monkey,
monster, table, tea, teacher, telephone, ten, two, trash, scissors, sit
down, sleep, smile, stand up
1
Activity name
What’s in the bag?
2
Parachute-Letter Cc
3
The Classroom-Letter
Bb
4
The Classroom-Letter
Tt
Description
Introduction to the vocabulary
of the unit. What can we find
in this school bag? Listen to
the words and click on the
objects.
Recognizing the sound of the
letter c in initial position in
words. Pupils are asked to
click only on the falling objects
that begin with the sound /c/
(letter Cc).
Recognizing the sound of the
letter b in initial position in
words. Pupils are asked to find
the objects in the classroom
that begin with the initial
sound /b/ (letter Bb).
Recognizing the sound of the
letter t in initial position in
words. Pupils are asked to find
the objects in the classroom
that begin with the initial
Learning Goals
Vocabulary: bag, ruler, crayons,
pencil, book, scissors, sandwich,
map, look, t.v., clown, apple,
banana, ball, bag, letter
where is the, where are the….
Recognizing the sound /c/ in
words that begin with the letter
C, ; Cat, cake, cookie, camel,
crayon, cactus.
Sentence structure: click on the
falling objects …
Recognizing the sound /b/ in
words that begin with the letter
B; bag, ball, balloon, boy, book,
bell, bat, banana.
Sentence structure: Find all the
things that begin with…..
Recognizing the sound /t/ in
words that begin with the letter
T; teacher, tea, table, t.v.,
telephone, ten, two, trash can.
Sentence structure: Find all the
5
Word Sort
6
True or False-Letter A
7
True or False-Letter S
8
Matching-Letter Ee
9
Parachutes-Capital
letters
10
Matching-Letter Ll
11
Trash Can Monster –
letter Mm
12
Word Machine
sound /t/ (letter Tt).
Review the words that begin
with the letters c, b, t. Sort the
pictures according to their
initial sounds.
Look and listen; Pupils are
asked to determine whether
the sentence they hear
represents the picture they
see. If the answer is “true”
pupils should click on the
green button. If the answer is
“false” pupils should click on
the red button.
Look and listen; Pupils are
asked to determine whether
the sentence they hear
represents the picture they
see. If the answer is “true”
pupils should click on the
green button. If the answer is
“false” pupils should click on
the red button.
Match the pictures to the
words you hear. This activity
focuses on words that begin
with the letter Ee.
Find the capital and small
letters in the falling
parachutes.
Listen to the words and look at
the pictures, match the word
you hear to the picture. This
activity introduces words that
begin with the letter Ll.
things that begin with…..
Reviewing the sounds /c/, /b/,
/t/ in the words: cookie, crayon,
cat, cactus, banana, ball, book,
bag table, telephone, trash can,
t.v,
Sentence structure: Drag the
picture.
Sentence structures:
Instructions: Look and listen. If
the picture is right, click on the
green button. If the picture is
wrong, click on the red button.
Vocabulary: Ant, apple, near, in,
on, under,
Sentence structures:
Instructions: Look and listen.
Action vocabulary: smile, stand
up, sit down, sleep
Recognizing the sound /e/ in
words that begin with the letter
E: elephant, eleven, egg
Recognizing capital and small
letters: Cc, Bb, Tt, Ss, Aa, Ee
Recognizing the sound /l/ in
words that begin with the letter
L; look, love, listen, letters,
laugh.
Instructions: Listen to the words
and draw a line to the right
picture.
Feed the objects that begin
Recognizing the sound /m/ in
with the letter Mm to the trash words that begin with the letter
can monster. Drag and drop
M; money, monkey, mouse,
the objects.
Max, mat, map
Instructions; Drag and drop the
objects.
Phonemic awareness activity.
Phonemic Awareness;
13
Memory Game
14
My Dictionary
15
Story-Max is Late for
School
16
Quiz
Look at the picture and build
the word. Pupils are asked to
use the word machine to build
short words using the letters
taught throughout the unit.
Match the letters to the
pictures. A review of the
letters taught throughout this
unit.
A personalized online
dictionary in which pupils
upload pictures, letters and
words and build their own
vocabulary lists in order to
help them remember new
words. The site will provide
the pupils with personalized
vocabulary quizzes to check
the retention of these new
words.
Max is a mixed up boy who has
a problem with keeping things
orderly. One day he wakes up
and he thinks he is late for
school. He quickly organizes
his things to take to school. He
runs out the door to notice
that it is still dark outside. He
realizes that it is still night and
that he isn’t late for school. So
he goes back to sleep.
Multiple choice questions that
test pupils’ letter-sound
recognition and vocabulary
knowledge.
Listen to the sounds and build
words: bat, mat, map, sat, tin,
bin, etc….
Review of the letters:
c,b,m,t,s,l,e,a
Vocabulary: t.v, scissors, letter,
elephant, apple, book, map, cat.
Letters:
Use of Vocabulary in Authentic
Text: book, ruler, crayons,
pencil, chair, purple, red, school,
room, light, bed, door,
Letters: c,b,a,s,t,l,m,e,
vocabulary: all of the school
related vocabulary taught
throughout the unit as well as
the prepositions and the action
vocabulary.