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Months and Colours- Mix and Match

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Months of the year and colour vocabulary silly and sensible combinations activities.

By: Alex Case
Level: Beginner
Theme: Time
Study Area: Vocabulary
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Lesson Plan Content:


Months and colours mix and match

Instructions for teachers

There are three versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. The second version is on cards to make it more flexible and to make matching up a more physical activity. However, the mix or match activity is usually best done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, like the classic drawing game Consequences.

There are also a few possible activities, but the best is usually to get one student to make a wrong, funny or crazy match and then for one or more other students to make it more correct/ more sensible, while keeping as many parts the same as they can. All the months have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match, but note that some of the colours don’t go well with any of the other cards.

To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on one side, perhaps after adding a cover, and then cut along the dotted lines. You could also add suitable pictures to some or all flaps, but doing it without pictures means that students will have to concentrate more on the meaning of the words.

After reading, students could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. Another option is for each student to draw one picture of their favourite silly combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page.

They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the other columns/ cards/ flaps.

 

Single-page version

Make a wrong sentence from the words in the columns below and see if your partner can make it true by changing the words in only one or two columns.

In January

In February

In March

In April

In May

In June

In July

In July

In August

In August

In September

In September

In October

In November

In December

In December

In December

In December

Santa’s clothes

the Valentine’s Day hearts

the cakes

the clouds

the decorations

the fireworks

the flags

the flowers

the leaves on the trees

the new school uniforms

the pumpkins

the sheep and lambs

the skies

the skies

the snowmen

the strawberries and cream

the sun and sunflowers

the tangerines

are black.

are black, blue and green.

are blue.

are bright yellow.

are gold and silver.

are green. 

are grey.

are many colours.

are no colour.

are orange.

are purple.

are red and white.

are red, orange and yellow.

are red.

are silver.

are white and black.

are white.

are yellow, blue and white.

 

Cards version

Make a wrong sentence from the words on the cards below and see if your partner can make the sentence true by only changing one or two cards. You can also use the blank cards for your own ideas.

in January

in February

in March

in April

in May

in June

in July

in August

in September

in October

in November

in December

 

 

the snowmen are

the Valentine’s Day hearts are

the flowers are

 

the sheep and lambs are

the flags are

 

the clouds are

 

the fireworks are

 

the strawberries and cream are

the sun and sunflowers are

the skies are

 

the skies are

 

the new school uniforms are

the pumpkins are

the leaves on the trees are

Santa’s clothes are

the tangerines are

the cakes are

 

the decorations are

 

 

 

 

bright

dark

light

and

 

black

 

 

blue

 

brown

 

colourless

 

gold

 

 

green

 

grey

 

many colours

 

no colour

 

 

orange

 

pink

 

purple

 

red

 

 

silver

 

white

 

yellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

Book version

Make a wrong sentence by turning the parts of the pages below and see if your partner can quickly change it to a true sentence.

 


 

 

In January

 

 

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Santa’s clothes

 

 

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are black.

 

 

 

In February

 

 

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the cakes

 

 

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are black, blue and green.

 

 

 

In March

 

 

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the Valentine’s Day hearts

 

 

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are blue.

 

 

 

In April

 

 

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the leaves on the trees

 

 

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are bright yellow.

 

 

 

In May

 

 

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the clouds

 

 

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are gold and silver.

 

 

 

 

In June

 

 

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the decorations

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are green.

 

 

 

In July

 

 

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the fireworks

 

 

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are grey.

 

 

 

In July

 

 

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the flags

 

 

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are many colours.

 

 

 

In August

 

 

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the new school uniforms

 

 

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are colourless/ no colour.

 

 

 

In August

 

 

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the pumpkins

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are orange.

 

 

 

In September

 

 

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the sheep and lambs

 

 

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are purple.

 

 

 

In September

 

 

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the skies

 

 

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are red and white.

 

 

 

In October

 

 

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the skies

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are red, orange and yellow.

 

 

 

In November

 

 

-------------------------------

 

the snowmen

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are red.

 

 

 

In December

 

 

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the flowers

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are silver.

 

 

 

In December

 

 

-------------------------------

 

the strawberries and cream

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are white and black.

 

 

 

In December

 

 

-------------------------------

 

the sun and sunflowers

 

 

-------------------------------

 

are white.

 

 

 

In December

 

 

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the tangerines

 

 

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are yellow, blue and white.

 

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