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Cool School A1

  • Level: A1
  • Topic: School rules
  • Learning Outcome: Can talk about rules in their school.
  • Grammar: ‘Have to’ for obligation
Key Language:

Actions for school: be on time, raise our hands, ask the teacher, keep the classroom clean, sit down, be quiet, talk to your partner, speak English, be kind, listen, look at the board, line up, follow the rules

Will is a young boy who doesn’t really like school and all the rules he has to follow, even though he has a very funny teacher called Mr. Boo. Mr Boo is actually a panda! A new girl starts in his school, and she shows Will all the fun things about his daily school life in Mr Boo’s class. Will realises that his school is cooler than he thought even though there are some rules to follow.
What are the rules in your school? Is your school cool like Will’s school?

Transcript

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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To check understanding of the Animation.

Steps for Students

  1. Listen to the teacher and look at the pictures: ACTIVITY 1
  2. Are the sentences true or false?
  3. If a sentence is false, what is the correct answer?

Click on the link: ACTIVITY 1

Students can answer the questions by:

  • saying ‘TRUE’ or ‘FALSE’
  • standing up if it’s TRUE and sit down if it’s FALSE
  • moving left if it’s TRUE and right if it’s FALSE

For online classes the Teacher can use the emoji function to correct

Questions:

  1. This is Will and he loves school.
  2. Will’s teacher is an Elephant.
  3. There is a new student in his class and she likes school.
  4. Will thinks spaceships are cool.
  5. Will walks to school every day.
  6. Will thinks that school isn’t cool.
  7. Fish swim in a school.
  8. The children are robots.
  9. Their teacher can’t dance.
  10. In their school they can learn a lot of new things.

 

TIP!

This activity could be done before watching the animation to introduce the story.

  1. FALSE – His name is Will but he doesn’t like school.
  2. FALSE- His teacher is a Panda called Mr. Boo or ‘Boosty’.
  3. TRUE – there is a new girl in his school and she doesn’t agree with Will.
  4. TRUE– He says ‘spaceships are cool’
  5. FALSE – Will goes to school by bus (Does he drive the bus???)
  6. TRUE- Will doesn’t like school because he thinks it isn’t cool and there are too many rules.
  7. TRUE – a group of fish is called a ‘school’ in English!
  8. FALSE – but their teacher thinks they should obey him like robots!
  9. FALSE – Mr Boo (Boosty) can dance really well! (Is he a good teacher????)
  10. TRUE – They say ‘we can learn many things which is cool’.

Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

Target language reinforcement to provide students with a controlled practice of ‘can you..?’ question forms.

Steps for Students

  1. Click on the link: ACTIVITY 2
  2. Spin the wheel.
  3. Ask someone in your group/class the question.
  4. Can he/she do it?
  5. When they have finished answering, eliminate the question and move on to the next question.

Click on: ACTIVITY 2

Online lesson:

  • The teacher can share her/his screen with the link to the activity or students can play together in breakout rooms.

 

  1. Click on the link.
  2. Spin the wheel.
  3. Students must nominate another student and ask them the question.
  4. The nominated student must demonstrate by doing the action or miming the action.

 

TIP! 

  • Listen for correct pronunciation of target language.
  • Are they using correct question forms?
  • Teacher can get feedback from groups and class:
    • Can he/she dance?
    • Can he/she dance well?

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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To develop spoken skills through a listening + pronunciation task.

Steps for Students

  1. This picture has an Ooo sound. What is it?
  2. Listen and repeat the sound and the sentence.
  3. Watch the animation again.
  4. How many Ooo sounds can you hear?

Click the link: ACTIVITY 3

  1. Explain to the students that a new Teacher Mr Boo is going to give them a pronunciation class.
  2. They must listen to the sounds and repeat them (loudly/quietly/slowly/quickly)
  3. Can they repeat everything they hear?
  4. After they practise they should watch the animation again and look for these sounds and repeat or role play the dialogue. Cool/School/Rule/True/New/Bamboo/Zoo/New/Too/Do

 

TIP! 

These sounds are in the animation which the students could roleplay or repeat the dialogue of (as different characters) for further practise.

Transcript:

  1. Ooo/ Ooo /school/school /A school of fish.
  2. Ooo/ Ooo /room/ room /A school classroom.
  3. Ooo/ Ooo /zoo/zoo/Let’s go to the zoo!
  4. Ooo/ Ooo /bamboo/bamboo/The panda eats bamboo.
  5. Ooo/ Ooo /cool/cool/That dog is very cool.
  6. Ooo/ Ooo /rules/rules/Do you know the rules?
  7. Ooo/ Ooo /tooth/tooth/ I lost my tooth.
  8. Ooo/ Ooo /moon/moon/Look at the moon!
  9. Ooo/ Ooo /you/you/I love you.
  10. Ooo/ Ooo / shoes/shoes/ I like your shoes!

Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To connect topic to real life experience and introduce ‘have to’ rules for school.

Steps for Students

  1. Go to www.kahoot.it
  2. Enter the PIN number.
  3. Enter your name.
  4. Play the quiz.
  5. Select the correct answer.
  6. Who is the winner?

 

Click the link: ACTIVITY 4

Kahoot – Rules in Mr Boo’s School:

  1. Create a free KAHOOT account or login if you are already a member.
  2. You will need 2 devices (students will need tablets/mobile phones or computers).
  3. Play as a ‘Guest’.
  4. Students enter the game from the second device by going to the Kahoot website and entering the PIN code.
  5. Class can play as Teams if you have 4 tablets or mobile phones.
  6. Whole class can also play together as a Team/one player.

 

TIP!

Flashcards available for pre-teaching: FLASHCARDS

Answers are provided

Aim of Activity

30 minutes

To engage students creatively with target language through a joint project or pair work activity.

Steps for Students

  1. Work with your team to find out what Pandas can and can’t do.
  2. Present your results to the class!

Prepare a template for students to use online or print out copies: ACTIVITY 5

  1. Ask the class ‘What can a Panda do?’
  2. Now ask them ‘What can’t a Panda do?’
  3. Students must work in Teams to come up with as many facts as possible.
  4. Elicit responses and write on board.
  5. Some questions to ask:
    • Can a Panda climb a tree? 
    • Can a Panda swim? 
    • Can a Panda run fast? 
  1. Students must work together to research and present results to the class.
  2. The Team with the most accurate information wins.

 

TIP! 

Useful sites in English:

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Activity attachment

Cool School A1 – Activity 5
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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.

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