Lesson ing
Sound:
ing [as in sleeping]
Core Activity:
Song: Are You Sleeping?
Materials:
Letter flashcard for ing
Picture flashcards: sleeping dog, bells ringing, singing
Poster of the Are You Sleeping? song
Teacher’s Song Sheet
Student’s Activity Book
Primary Phonics Two CD
Suggested Vocabulary:
cooking, ding, jumping, playing, reading, ring, running, sing, singing, sleeping, swimming,
writing
Letter/Sound Awareness:
This lesson introduces the ing sound.
When ing is added to a verb, it is usually
pronounced with the preceding consonant
as in sleeping.
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Action:
The students pretend to ring a bell and say
ing, ing, Ring!
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Procedure
Notes
Pre-task
 Read the following three words: good morning,
ringing, sing.
 Ask the students if they can guess today's sound.
 Put the ing flashcard on the board and say the sound
for the students to repeat.
 Show the flashcard of bells ringing. Elicit from the
students that the bells are ringing. Elicit the spelling
of ringing from the students and write it on the
board.
 Teach the action and repeat the sound with the
action.
 Show the flashcard of the sleeping dog and elicit the
spelling of sleeping.
 Mime other action words (see the suggested
vocabulary) and ask students to guess what they are.
 Ask the students to come to the front and do the
miming for the class to guess. Elicit the spelling of
each action from the students and write it on the
board.
 Help with pronunciation where necessary.
Write, draw or use flashcards for these
words.
It would be natural to use the present
continuous tense. ‘You are …ing.’
Extra flashcards which cover these actions
can be found in 'New Welcome to English'
sets 2B and 3B.
You can turn this into a competitive game.
Task
 Put the poster on the board.
 Sing the song, while clapping the rhythm.
 Sing the song a second time encouraging the students
to join in.
 Encourage the students to substitute sleeping with
other action words, and little dog with names of the
students like this: Are you reading? Are you
reading? Chan Chi Ming, Chan Chi Ming? The student
whose name is called has to mime the action and call
See Activity Book.
another student’s name.
 Ask the students to open their Activity Book at
Lesson ing.
 Ask the students to work in pairs to complete the
task.
 Choose some students to sing their song to the whole
class.
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Post-task
 Review the ing sound with the action.
 Play ‘5 and Out’ to revise the ing sound.
o Elicit five words using the target sound and write
them on the board.
o At the bottom of the list write ING!
o Students stand up and one by one they say the
words on the list – the 6th student shouts ING
and sits down.
o The next student starts again with the first word
and so on going down the list until the 6th student
is OUT again.
o Continue around the class (or in smaller groups)
until there is a winner.
 Change the five words and play again if time permits.
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You can point randomly around the class to
designate students.
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Teacher’s Song Sheet
(Tune: Are you Sleeping?)
Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping?
(put both hands together and rest your head – as if sleeping)
Are you sleeping?
Little dog, little dog.
(imagine you are holding a little dog)
Morning bells are ringing,
(swing both hands like a bell)
Morning bells are ringing.
Ding, ding, ding,
(pretend to be ringing a bell)
Ding, ding, ding.
Use any action verbs the children have learned, e.g. cooking, jumping, running, swimming,
crying, reading, writing, etc. Use names of the children in the class to replace little dog.
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Name____________(
) Class____ Date______
Are you sleeping?
Are you ________ing?
Are you ________ing?
_____ _____ _____,
_____ _____ _____.
Morning bells are
ringing,
Morning bells are
ringing.
Ding, ding, ding,
Ding, ding, ding.
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