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Move your Body with me A1

  • Level: A1
  • Topic: Sport - Exercise
  • Learning Outcome: Can understand instructions for movement.
  • Grammar: Imperatives for instructions
Key Language:

Verbs for movement: breathe in, breathe out, relax your muscles, close your eyes, open your eyes, bend, stand on your toes, touch your nose, walk on your heels, warm up, lift and stretch your arms

Lisa asks Mandy how she stays healthy. Mandy says she exercises every day, doing yoga in the morning and jogging in the afternoon. On weekends, she goes to Boosty’s Fitness Club to play sports. Lisa wants to try it too, so they go together. They do a fun warm-up. Does Lisa like it? Watch the video to find out.

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Aim of Activity

10 minutes

To check learners’ understanding of the video. 

Steps for Students

Task 1. Flashcards

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 1
  2. Read/listen and answer the questions.
  3. Flip the card to check your answer.

Task 2. Matching

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 2
  2. Click on the “Matching” tab on the top
  3. Find five questions. Find answers matching each question.

Task 3. Practice

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 3
  2. Click on the “Practice” tab on the top
  3. Write your answers in the box below. Write full answer, not one word.
  4. Flip the card to check your answer. 

TIP!

There are 3 activities utilising the same questions and answers for students to integrate skills. This also serves the purpose of spaced repetition and exposure to language. Students can do the same task in three or four different ways.  

All the three activities can be run individually, in small groups or as a whole class.  

The three tasks can also be run on different days as a follow up and revision (creating a sense of continuity for the video series) 

Task 1. Flashcards

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 1
  2. Each card asks a post-watching comprehension question. The teacher can enable the audio function for students to listen to the questions and answers as well.
  3. Encourage students to provide full, not one-word, answers. Present Simple practice.

Task 2. Matching

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 2
  2. Click on the “Matching” tab on the top
  3. Students have to match the questions with the respective answers.
  4. Students should be encouraged to first identify a question and then look for the answer, not the other way round (sensitising students to question formation)

Task 3. Practice

  1. Click this link to start the activity: TASK 3
  2. Click on the “Practice” tab on the top
  3. Students provide written answers to the questions. 

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Aim of Activity

15 - 30 min

To help learners practice and learn collocations related to sports and activities using verbs; improve their pronunciation of different sports and activities, and improve their spelling of nouns related to various sports and activities. 

Steps for Students

Task 1. Random wheel

  1. Spin the wheel
  2. Suggest doing the selected activity (e.g. football- Lets play football!; What about playing football?)

 

Task 2. Random cards

  1. Click on a card
  2. Make a suggestion for a sports activity (e.g. football- Lets play football!; What about playing football?)

 

Task 3. Open the box

  1. Click on a box you like to open it up
  2. Make a suggestion for a sports activity (e.g. football- Lets play football!; What about playing football?). 

 

Task 4. Anagram
Move the letters around to unscramble the sports activity. 

  1. Start by rewatching the video and ask students to remember as many sports and activities as they can (in pairs or small groups) 
  2. Elicit how the different sports collocate with verbs (play football; go jogging; do aerobics) 
  3. Elicit what language Lisa and Boosty used to make suggestions in the video (What about + ing; Let’s + infinitive) 
  4. Tell students that they will now play a game making suggestions about sports activities they can do using the language for making suggestions and the verb + noun collocations (e.g. let’s go jogging; what about playing football, etc) 
  5. Click this link to start the activity: ACTIVITY 2
  6. Play the ‘Spin the wheel’ game and focus on how students use the collocations and how they pronounce the names of sports & chunks (e.g go (w) swimming – added sound)

TIP!

There are 3 extra activities to help students revisit the target language:  

Tasks 2 & 3 
Random cards & Open the Box 
These activities could be done in the same lesson (teacher could simply regroup students so they practise the same language with different partners) 

Alternatively, this could be a revision and spaced repetition of the target language over the next couple of lessons (short fillers or warmers) 

Task 4
Anagram
This task will reinforce students’ spelling abilities (verb+noun collocations and making suggestions can also be practised further) 

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Aim of Activity

20 minutes

To practice speaking and grammar through a game of Tic-tac-toe, using movement verbs and body parts to practice prepositions. 

Steps for Students

  1. Guess the missing prepositions on the screen.
  2. The goal of the game is for players to position their marks so that they make a continuous line of three cells vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. An opponent can prevent a win by blocking the completion of the opponent’s line.
  1. Click this link to start the activity: ACTIVITY 3
  2. Make sure you and/or your students select the 3 x 3 size grid to play the game
  3. This activity could be done in pairs, small groups or as a whole class. Two teams are needed (red & black).  Students should guess the missing prepositions.
  4. The goal of the game is for players to position their marks so that they make a continuous line of three cells vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. An opponent can prevent a win by blocking the completion of the opponent’s line.  

TIP!

It is a good idea to play the game as a whole class the first time. This will demonstrate exactly how to play and will also give the teacher an opportunity to closely monitor the use of prepositions. Then students are put in pairs or groups of 4 in order to play the game again. Teacher should monitor the use of prepositions throughout. Change pairs/groups a couple of times so students get enough practice of the use of prepositions.  

As a follow up, students could be asked to carry out a survey by asking other students how many of the movements they can do? Students would have to demonstrate they can do the movements if they answer ‘Yes, I can’.  

This is an opportunity for the teacher to focus on the weak form of the verb can. 

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Aim of Activity

10 minutes

To practice and improve the pronunciation of words ending in ‘-ing‘ related to sports and activities. Review and practice previously learned vocabulary and grammar, and learn irregular spellings of verbs in gerund form used in sports and activities. 

Steps for Students

  1. Guess the activity
  2. Listen and repeat 
  1. Download the presentation from below
  2. Play the presentation and let students guess the activity from the images.
  3. Play the audio and get students to repeat the sound, the activity and the longer sentence. 

TIP!

Make sure students notice and repeat contracted forms of the verb ‘to be’. 

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Move your Body with me A1 – Activity 4
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Aim of Activity

30 minutes

To practise the target language in the context of their own fitness club. 

 

Steps for Students

  1. In groups of 4, imagine that you have your own fitness club.
  2. Decide what name you would like your fitness club to have.  
  3. Prepare some activities you would like people in your fitness club to do (e.g. Shake your head. Bend your elbow. Walk on your…, etc). Think of some fun activities to do, for example, Can you cover your ears with your toes?
  4. You are going to be a fitness instructor and you will ask other students if they can do your activities.  

Before you start, download the WORKSHEET below.

Before students start working on their own set of activities… 

  1. review the verb + noun phrases from the video and the previous activities in this lesson.  You can do it by displaying the word cloud on the screen for students to generate phrases by combining verbs, nouns and prepositions.
  2. You may want to teach/demonstrate a few more phrases students could use when working on the task, e.g:
    > Shake your head/legs/arms/body
    > Shrug your shoulders
    > Nod your head 
    > Bend your wrist up/down, etc
  3. get groups to think of the name for their fitness club

TIP!

Students design a set of activities for their own fitness club, using the vocabulary they have learnt in the previous lessons. Encourage students to design some fun/impossible movements to add humour to the task (e.g. cover your eyes with your ears) 

Students share their set of activities and get other students to demonstrate them, mimicking a real fitness club. 

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Activity attachment

Move your Body with me 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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