Connecting the topic with real life.
After you watch activity:
Work in pairs and prepare your invitation to the animal rescue centre:
Imagine that you are preparing to open a rescue centre for animals in need. The problem is that you are missing part of the funding, and therefore you need visitors and potential sponsors. Prepare an invitation that informs visitors not only about the animals but also about other activities that can be done at your centre, including your rescue program. Convince them that your project makes sense.
Perform your invitations for the class or upload them to Padlet, watch all the invitations and decide which animal rescue centre you would donate some money to.
Watch the invitation to Chester Zoo with the students: ACTIVITY 4
Before you watch: What animals do you expect to see? What else can people do when visiting a zoo?
While watching: Students order the adjectives as they appear in the video. Write the adjectives on the board: endangered, cute, tropical, smallest, exotic, amazing, majestic, largest, tasty, strangest, tallest, or go to: FLIPPITY
After you watch:
put students in pairs and ask them to prepare their invitation to the animal rescue centre.
“You have just seen an invitation to Chester Zoo. Imagine that you are preparing to open a rescue centre for animals in need. The problem is that you are missing part of the funding, and therefore you need visitors and potential sponsors. Prepare an invitation that informs visitors not only about the animals but also about other activities that can be done at your centre, including your rescue program. Convince them that your project makes sense.”
To add an element of competition, create a Padlet page where students can upload their invitations, watch them together and decide which centre they would donate some money to.
2. the order of adjectives from the video: majestic, tropical, exotic, endangered, largest, smallest, strangest, tallest, cute, tasty, amazing
The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.
