⭐ Sunshine Club: The Big Rehearsal
The speaking lesson of the Sunshine Club graduation unit and the last stop before the show. Nothing new is taught: children pick and rehearse a star moment made only of course language. A show-words box introduces the day's helpers in emoji rows (star moment, song, clap, smile), and a pick-your-sentence box models three star-moment lines (I'm Omar, I can play the drum; I've got a red kite; There's my family) plus an interview-question chip panel (What's your name? How old are you? Have you got a pet? Do you like pizza? Can you dance?). Ten show words (show, star, song, dance, clap, smile, loud, practise, ready, invitation) fill the vocabulary table and six return as flashcards. A 70-word story, The Big Rehearsal, shows all four kids practising — dance, loud song, interview demo and drum — with six hover word-helps and a word-card chip row. Children then complete 8 one-word fill-in-the-blanks with live feedback, rehearse with five stage prompts and a six-line interview demo between Nina and Omar, write a three-frame show invitation (10–20 words) with checklist, counter and auto-save, and finish with an 8-question show quiz with one-line explanations, a score circle and saved progress — then deliver the invitation at home.
Lesson Plan
- 4 stage-energy actions: smile, loud name, claps, I can do it
- Whole-class energiser — no writing needed
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Revision: I'm + name/age for introductions (I'm Omar. I'm eight.)
- Revision: I've got + thing (I've got a drum.)
- Revision: I can + action for star moments (I can play it!)
- Revision: There's + a thing (There's my family!)
- Interview chunks: What's your name? How old are you? Have you got...? Can you...?
- Imperatives for the stage: Smile! Clap! Come to our show!