Task 6: Animoto video

If you could go anywhere, where would you like to travel?


The following activity is aimed for A2/B1 students. I have created a video about travelling. Students have to think where they would like to travael and make a video about it...The tittle may be:
I would like to travel to__________ because....so they end up describing their favourite city and using the second conditional...


 

Task 5: Tar Heel Reader

The following activity is aimed for A2/B1 students.
Through out this task, students have to rewrite a fairytale by using tar heel reader. They should change whatevery they want (the ending, the setting, the place etc.) They do not need to use complex sentences and it will serve as a review of past tenses.

Here there is an example of what they should do.

As a post activity, students may read their stories so that the rest of the class think about the differences and similarities between both stories (the traditional and the rewritten version).

Task 4: VoiceThread

Aim:

• to prepare an oral presentation using voicethread
• to listen and to answer some questions related to the presentation
• to use the past simple tense

Level: A2/B1 students

Students are invited to prepare a presentation about their childhood. They may use several pictures to talk about their childhood memories! The presentation must include some specific information (their likes and dislikes, their favourite food, their habits, some personal data etc).Thus, the teacher will provide a guide with some points to be covered. Then, the rest of the class will listen to the presentation and they will have to answer some questions related to their peers´presentations. .

• When was your partner born?
• How was his/her personality?
• What did your partner like to do when he/she was a child?
• What was his/her favourite food?
• Was your partner a good student?
• Which was his/her favourite subject?
• What did he/she want to be when he/she grew up?
• What was he/she scared of as a child?

The following presentation may be taken as an example. The images may be real or not since the point here is to make our students to speak in English! This acitivy will be surely an engaging one for them because it has a meaningful context and is related to their real life. This is always attracting for them!

Task 3: Piclit

Aim: To develop creative writing /to develop cooperative work
Level: B1 students

Students work in groups. They have to make up a story starting from the given piclit. Each group has to create a piclit which should be related to the previous one so they should create a piclit following up the last one. They should be creative and original  in order to turn the story into a funny one. The starting point is the following one... 

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com