Party: guests, guest list, gift, candle, cake, pizza box, glass, plate, fork, bottle, table, chair, ball, toy, plates, pizza boxes, celebrate, party, balloon.
Numbers: 1-100
Lisa is celebrating her birthday with her friends and a surprise guest. Lisa sets up the garden with tables and chairs. They play games and have fun until it is time for her birthday cake. But, when Lisa’s mom goes to get it, it is gone! Where could it be? Who is the secret guest?
To check learner’s understanding of the video.
Face-to-face class:
Use a projector to do the task as a whole class activity OR
Provide tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups.
Online lesson:
Use a computer to share the task online – by clicking the link: Activity 1
If needed, watch the video again.
In an online class, learners can share their answers in the chatroom before the teacher reveals the answer on the screen.
Note that it is possible to switch templates using the same content by clicking one of the templates (e.g. Group sort, Airplane, Anagram) on the right of the screen.
To review the target language, the use of have/has got, from the video.
Face-to-face class:
Use a projector to do the task as a whole class activity OR
Provide tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups.
Online lesson:
Use a computer to share the task online – by clicking the link: Activity 2
Encourage the learners to answer the questions in full sentences.
Note that it is possible to switch templates using the same content by clicking one of the templates (e.g. Quiz, Gameshow Quiz, Maze chase) on the right of the screen.
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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To sensitise learners to the correct pronunciation of the final -s in plural nouns and practise this in speaking in the form of an information gap activity.
Go to: Activity 4
Step 1: Group the words into three categories, /s/ /z/ or /ɪz/.
Step 2: Listen and check your answers.
Step 3: Listen and repeat the words.
/s/ – guests, plates, gifts, forks
/z/ – chairs, toys, balls, candles
/ɪz/ – glasses, boxes, bushes, watches
To provide learners with the opportunity to use the target language in the context of finding differences between two pictures, based on the video learners watched.
Example:
A: How many trees have you got in your picture?
B: I’ve got two trees in the garden. And you?
A: I’ve got one tree in the garden.
Pre-teach any vocabulary if relevant to learners.
Words used in the activity: guest, boy, girl, cap, gift, tree, candle, cake, pizza box, glass, plate, fork, bottle, table, chair, ball, toy
The differences:
| Picture A | Picture B | |
| trees | 1 | 2 |
| balls | 1 | 3 |
| caps | 3 | 4 |
| pizza boxes | 6 | 12 |
| plates | 3 | 5 |
| candles | 3 | 7 |
| chair | 3 | 4 |
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.
