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Let’s tidy up!
Connect Primary 1, Term 2: Unit 12 Let’s go shopping
GoalSay how to tidy up clothes with Put … in/on … .
New words
tidy up · put things in the right placebox · you keep things in itbed · you sleep on itput · to move a thing to a place
Explanation
Look at the room. It is not tidy. Let’s tidy up! Put the shoes in the box. Put the T-shirt on the bed. Put your socks in the box, too. A tidy room is nice. We help at home.
Worked examples
Dad
Marina, let us tidy up!
Marina
OK, Dad. Where do the shoes go?
Dad
Put the shoes in the box.
Marina
And the T-shirt? I will put it on the bed.
Look at the picture. Say: Put the … in the … . Say: Put the … on the … .
Now you. Look at your own room. What can you tidy up?
Class activity
Tidy-up race. Put six clothes on the floor. A grown-up says: ‘Put the socks in the box!’ You put them in and say: ‘Socks in the box!’ Do the T-shirt (on the bed) and the shoes next.
Practice
1
Listen. Where does it go?
…
In the box.
2
Look. Where is the T-shirt?
On the bed.
3
Say what your dad says when the room is not tidy.
Let’s tidy up!
4
Which is tidy: socks on the floor or socks in the box?
Socks in the box.
5
Write: Put the shoes in the box.
The child copies the sentence.