People plant gardens to grow food for their families and flowers for the beauty. Learn how to talk about both kinds of gardens and gardening
Beginning Learners:
Use Look and Listen and Do to learn appropriate vocabulary.
Possible vocabulary:
| Garden | Herbs | Vegetables | Flowers |
| Gardening tools | Seeds | Pots | Trowel |
| Shovel | Hoe | Gloves | Watering pot |
| To plant | To water | To cultivate | To pick |
| To harvest | Rain | Sun | Drought |
Suggested activities:
Activity 1: Use Look and Listen and Do to learn basic vocabulary.
Activity 2: Act out the different steps in gardening when your LH describes them. Now reverse the process – your LH acts the steps out and you try to say what he or she is doing.
Activity 3: Learn to say what flowers and plants you like best.
Intermediate Learners:
Activity 1: Ask your LH to describe what people grow in gardens, what they are used for. Record short descriptions.
Activity 2: Practice talking about what you like to grow in your garden and what sorts of plants grow at different times of the year.
