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Spring is coming.
Textbook: p. 70
GoalSpring and baby animals; a fairy tale in the Past Simple; the months in order.
New words
fairy tale · ertakbaby animals · bolalarugly · xunukbeautiful · ko‘rkam
Explanation
In spring baby animals appear on the farm: calf, lamb, kid, foal, chick, duckling, kitten, puppy. We tell a fairy tale in the past. Regular verbs: open → opened, play → played, ask → asked. Irregular: come → came, go → went, say → said, have → had. Negative: “He didn’t have friends.” Question: “Who came out of the egg?” Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” ends in spring: the ugly duckling becomes a beautiful white bird. Months: January – December.
Worked examples
In Andersen’s tale one little bird looked different from his brothers. The farm animals laughed at him. He spent a long, cold winter alone. In spring he looked into the lake and saw a beautiful swan – it was him!
Months in order: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Class activity
“Baby animal match”: match cards: calf – cow, lamb – sheep ... Then ask: “Whose baby is a lamb?”
Practice
1
The baby of a cow?
a calf
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Past forms: come, say, open, ask
came, said, opened, asked
3
Put in order: March, January, February.
January, February, March
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Why is a fairy tale told in the past?
The events are told as if they happened long ago.