Numbers: Vocabulary Fitness for the English Classroom

With Vocabulary Fitness, primary school children review the English Numbers while staying active. They run on the spot as the presentation advances slide by slide: when a digit appears, they shout out the corresponding number word; when a fitness exercise appears, they do the exercise. The number slides show only the digit, so the children have to come up with the word themselves.

What is included in the material

• Presentation: the numbers from zero to thirty-one and the tens up to seventy as digits in ascending order, with every three numbers followed by a fitness exercise with a picture and English label, such as squats, star jumps or stand on one leg
• Instructions slide for the children: the rules briefly summarized at the beginning of the presentation
• Instructions for the teacher: how the movement break works
• Word list: all the number words in the presentation with the corresponding digits at a glance

Tips for using the material

• Vocabulary Fitness is ideal for short movement breaks during lessons.
• It is helpful that the teacher sets the pace: they decide how long each slide remains on screen.

These skills are promoted

• Vocabulary: recalling and saying the English number words for the digits aloud
• Movement: performing various fitness exercises according to the picture
• Balance and coordination: in exercises such as balance position or stand on one leg

To complement this, there is a presentation for the whole class, another exercise involving movement and material for introducing the number words.