To ask and answer questions about a party scene that learners draw and colour themselves to recycle vocabulary from the video and practise the target language.
Example:
A: How many balloons have you got in your picture?
B: I’ve got two blue balloons and three read balloons. And you? How many balloons have you got?
A: I’ve got one red balloon, three yellow balloons and four green balloons.
1. Ask learners to work in pairs or small groups and draw a party poster with some tables, chairs, boys, girls, balloons, gifts / presents, toys and a cake with some candles.
2. Once learners have drawn their pictures, put students in pairs to compare their drawings by asking and answering questions using ‘how many’:
Example:
A: How many balloons have you got in your picture?
B: I’ve got two blue balloons and three read balloons. And you? How many balloons have you got?
A: I’ve got one red balloon, three yellow balloons and four green balloons.
Face-to-face class:
Worksheet (Activity 3) can be projected on an interactive whiteboard
Online class:
share the worksheet (Activity 3) on the screen of the teacher’s computer OR share the worksheet with individual students e.g. on a Google Drive
Variation: Feel free to omit or add items for students to draw.
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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.
