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Open your book
Connect Primary 1, Term 1: Unit 1 Hello
GoalFollow simple school instructions: open and close.
New words
open · make a door or book not shutclose · make a door or book shutbook · you read itbag · you carry your things in it
Explanation
Teachers say words that tell us what to do. Open your book! Close your book! Open your bag! Close your bag! We listen, then we do it.
Worked examples
Miss Dina
Open your book.
Miss Dina
Now close your book.
Miss Dina
Open your bag.
Look at the school things. Say: This is a bag. This is a book.
Now you. Open your hand. Close your hand. Say: open, close.
Class activity
Teacher says. A grown-up is the teacher and gives an instruction: Open your book! Close your bag! The child does it. Then the child is the teacher.
Practice
1
Listen. What must you do?
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Close the bag.
2
Listen and do it. Then say the word you did.
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The child opens the book and says: open.
3
Which word means ‘not shut’: open or close?
open.
4
Look. Say: bag.
bag.
5
Writing: copy the word ‘bag’.
bag