Webquest challenge

In the following Webquest students learn about the Seven Wonders of the New World integrating all of the English skills (listening, speaking, writing, reading and use of English).
 

Scared Shrekless Movie comprehension

The following activity offers students the possibility of learning English idioms and expressions in an interactive and fun way! Also, they can practice receptive skills such as listening and reading (because it has subtitles).


Activity:

Watch the following movie:

Task I: 

Answer the following questions:

1.    Who terrifies the trick or treaters?
2.     Why ogres cannot be scared?
3.     Who suggests telling scary-stories all night?
4.      Where do they go to tell scary stories?
5.     Does the song “welcome to Duloc” scare donkey?
6.     Who is the first one to tell a scary story?
7.     Is “The bride of Gingy” a true story?
8.     Who is always dying in donkey’s story?
9.     Is the ghost of Lord Farquaad's real?

Task II: 

Explain briefly Gingy and Shrek’s scary story.

Integrating skills

The following activity offers different kind of exercises in which students practice listening, reading and speaking skills.

Video from the PP.

Reading from the PP.

CLIL activity

The following exercises follow an alternative approach which integrates content in a foreign language. In this case, students learn Math through English. The purpose of the first exercise is to assess  student's prior knowledge of geometrical figures and to activate students’ schemata. The purpose of the second exercise is to let the students make associations between the geometrical figures and everyday real objects.

You can use this type of task with first and second graders to teach them geometrical figures in a second language or you can use these exercises with advance levels as pre-tasks or initial evaluations to introduce complex math-related contents. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehsp1aom0hplm7q/Math%20through%20English.%20.docx?dl=0

Listening comprehension with Podcasts

This Podcast is about Thanksgiving. Through this listening students not only improve their listening skills, but also learn about American culture.


Listen to the following conversation:

http://info40650.podomatic.com/entry/2013-11-25T08_28_49-08_00

Task I: Answer the following questions.

1. What is Thanksgiving?
2. Where is it celebrated?


Task 2: Circle the animals that appear in the listening.

Task 3:Match the following words according to the listening:

1. cranberry                               a. potatoes
2. sweet                                     b. pie
3. pumpkin                                c. sauce

Task 4: Explain with your own words the meaning of the word "stuffing".