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In Pairs: Encourage pupils to talk to each other about what they like about being in the playground. Are there any elements that they don’t like? Vocabulary Game You are at the playground. You see your friends playing on the swings. Ask them whether you can join in. You have been playing in the playground. When you go home you tell your Mum all about what you have been doing. You are on a team in charge of designing a new playground. What pieces of equipment would you like to put in this playground? Vocabulary Game Lesson 3 Talk About Whole Class: Revise the poster. The poem ‘The Playground’ or another poem of your choice is taught. Ask pupils to form a circle and share their thoughts and feelings about the poem. Poem <title in blue menu> Lesson 3 – Poem: The Playground Swinging on the swings Or climbing really high things. The playground, With friends all around. Lesson 4 What Am I? Activity Whole Class: Play a game of ‘What Am I?’ Ask a pupil to come to the top of the class and describe a particular piece of equipment in the playground without actually naming it (roundabout, swing, slide, see-saw, climbing frame). The other pupils then have to ask questions and guess what the item is. A variation on this game is to ask the pupil to draw a picture of the playground item. Then this pupil comes to the top of the class with the paper folded and hidden and others ask them questions about what they have drawn. The pupil is only