Ask the children to look at the learning outcomes for the lesson – you may explain what they are going to learn in Chinese.
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Let's watch the movie.  While you are watching count how many colours there are.

Xiao Hong has got some sweets.
There are some red ones
There are some green ones
There are some blue ones
There are some yellow ones
Which ones will she eat first?

Which colour sweets do you eat first?

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Let's look at some pictures from the story.  Can you answer the questions?
How many sweets are there?
How many blue sweets are there?
How many green sweets are there?
How many red sweets are there?
How many yellow sweets are there?

Put the class into pairs and get them to practise asking and answering questions about the sweets.

Now work together with your partner and ask and answer questions about the sweets.

Have sheets of paper with words written on them and ask children to come to the board to stick them in the right order using sticky tape.  Put them on the board in random order.  Ask the children if there are any clues that can help them (First word in the sentence has a capital letter, last word has question mark next to it)

Can you see anything that can help you?

Next do the same but include the colour adjective

Let's do it again.  Can someone come up here and help me this time?

Ask the children to draw 20 sweets quickly on a sheet of paper.  M&M type (20 small circles).

Draw 20 small sweets.

They must have a red, a blue, a yellow and a green pencil/felt tip/crayon each.

Now get out a red, a blue, a yellow and a green pencil.

Now tell them you are going to say how many of each colour sweets there are and they must colour in the right number.  Make sure the total equals 20!

I am going to tell you how many of the sweets are blue and you must colour in that number of sweets with the blue pencil.

There are 6 blue sweets.

Now the other colours.

There are 3 green sweets.
There are 7 red sweets.
There are 4 yellow sweets.

Ask the children to make an exercise for a friend to do. 

Now you are going to make an exercise for your partner.

They must write down the question :

"How many sweets are there?"

First of all, write down the question "How many sweets are there?"

Underneath they must write four sentences – choosing for themselves a number between 1 and 10.  They must leave a space between each sentence:

There are ..... blue sweets.
There are ..... green sweets.
There are ..... red sweets.
There are ..... yellow sweets.

 Do partners' exercises – next to each sentence they must draw the right number of sweets of that colour.

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