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Places I Go A1

  • Level: A1
  • Topic: Places in a town
  • Learning Outcome: Can name places in a town and say how often they go there.
  • Grammar: Imperatives for directions
Key Language:

Prepositions of Place + directions: next to, under, behind, in front of,  between, across,  from, turn left, turn right, go straight ahead,  go past

Will is in the supermarket with Boosty helping with the shopping, but he has lost his Mum. Will thinks about the places she usually/sometimes/hardly ever/never goes. At the same time Will’s Mum is looking for Will. She thinks about the places that he usually/sometimes/hardly ever/never goes.
Can Will and Boosty find his Mum? Has Will put the right items in his trolley? Where do you always/sometimes/never go?

 

Transcript

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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

Follow up activity after watching Animation to check understanding.

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. Boosty and Will are lost in the Supermarket.
  2. Will’s Mum isn’t in the Supermarket.
  3. Boosty and Will never eat spaghetti.
  4. Will’s Mum never goes to the Hairdressers.
  5. She loves to go to the café.
  6. She is in the bank now.
  7. She always takes the train.
  8. She is in the Playground now
  9. She can’t find Will.
  10. They sometimes go to the Fast-Food Restaurant.
  11. Will likes to go to the pond next to the school.
  12. There is a Museum near the Supermarket.
  13. Will loves reading.
  14. Will loves spaghetti.
  15. Will doesn’t like chocolate cake.

 

TIP! 

Create your own True or False questions to aid students with understanding the video or ask the students to do this.

  1. True
  2. False
  3. False – They always eat spaghetti.
  4. False – She sometimes goes to the Hairdressers.
  5. True – She always goes to the cafe.
  6. False – She usually goes to the bank but she is in the Supermarket now.
  7. False – She rarely goes to the Train Station.
  8. False – She never goes to the Playground.
  9. True
  10. True
  11. True – Will usually goes to the pond with the ducks next to the school.
  12. True – It is across the street from the Supermarket.
  13. False – He never goes to the Library.
  14. True – He has it in his shopping trolley.
  15. False – He loves chocolate cake and he has it in his trolley but it isn’t on his mum’s shopping list!

Activity attachment

Places I Go A1 – Activity 1
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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

Target language reinforcement.

Steps for Students

  1. Click on the link: ACTIVITY 2
  2. ‘Deal’ the cards
  3. Ask someone in your group/class the question ‘Where is she?’
  4. Is the answer correct?
  5. Ask him/her to ‘Shuffle’ the cards and ask the next question.

Face to face class:

  • Tablets can be provided to small groups of 4-6 students
  • or teacher can display the activity on the Interactive Board

Online lesson:

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

Click on: ACTIVITY 2

  1. Open the link and deal (or shuffle) the cards.
  2. Ask the students ‘Where is she?’
  3. Elicit the correct answer.
  4. If students need more practice they can play in small groups with each other.

 

TIP! 

  • Listen for correct pronunciation of target language.
  • Are they using correct question forms?
  • Are they making full sentences. (She is in/at the……….)

Answers vary according to the speaker. Also depending on how the card is shuffled. All correct.
For example:

  • She is at the Drive Thru.
  • She is at a restaurant.
  • She is at Mc Donalds.
  • She is at a take away

Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To develop spoken interaction skills through a listening + pronunciation task.

Steps for Students

  1. Click on the link: PowerPoint This picture has an AAH sound. What is it?
  2. Listen and repeat the sound and the sentence.
  3. Can you hear what Mr Boo says?

Open PowerPoint and check audio (you may need to download)

Face-to-face class:

  • You’ll need an Interactive Board to do the task as a whole class activity
  • or tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups

Online lesson:

  • You’ll need a computer to share the task online

 

  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. Can they answer Mr Boo’s questions?

 

TIP!

As extra follow up task encourage the students to make sentences or drawings with the key words.

Transcript

  1. Pronunciation Class with Mr Boo.
  2. Aah, Aah, Ants, Ants. Is that the number eight? No, it’s a line of ants.
  3. Aah, Aah, Ask, Ask. Ask me a question.
  4. Aah, Aah, Alarm, Alarm. My alarm clock is so loud.
  5. Aah, Aah, Laugh, Laugh. The cat is laughing at my joke.
  6. Aah, Aah, Garden, Garden. What a lovely back garden you have!
  7. Aah, Aah, Arm, Arm. I have very strong arms. I am a Panda you know!
  8. Aah, Aah, Fast, Fast. I really love my fast car.
  9. Aah, Aah, Market, Market. I like lots of fruit at the supermarket.
  10. Aah, Aah, Heart, Heart. Can you make a heart?
  11. Aah, Aah, Start, Start. Please press start.

Activity attachment

Places I Go A1 – Activity 3
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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To connect topic to real life experience and teach vocabulary via a game format.

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?

 

Face-to-face class:

  • You’ll need a projector/Interactive Board to do the task as a whole class activity
  • or tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups

Online lesson:

  • You’ll need a computer to share the task online

 

  1. Click the link: ACTIVITY 4
  2. You will need 2 devices (students will need tablets/mobile phones or computers).
  3. Play as a ‘Guest’.
  4. Ask the students to use their first names as it can be difficult to know who the winner is if they use nicknames.
  5. Students enter the game from the second device by going to the Kahoot website and entering the code www.kahoot.it
  6. Class can play as Teams if you have 4 tablets or mobile phones.
  7. Whole class can also play together as a Team/one player.
  8. Follow up activity – place flashcards around the classroom (from Activity 1) and ask student to direct each other to the places where Will and his Mother are.

 

TIP!

Ask the students to use their first names as it can be difficult to know who the winner is if they use nicknames.

 

Answers are given

Aim of Activity

20 minutes

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

Steps for Students

  1. Find your area on Google Maps
  2. Say where all the places Will and his Mum visited are in your area.
    • ‘There is a supermarket next to the bank’
    • ‘There is a Library across from the School’
  1. Draw a map of your area and present to your group.
  2. Ask other students questions about their maps.
    • ‘Where is the supermarket?’

Face-to-face class:

  • You’ll need an Interactive Board/Projector or tablets for groups.
  • Prepare paper and coloured pens.

Online class:

  • share google maps online and make own maps for Homework

Go to Google Maps

  1. Select your area on google maps and zoom into an area the class knows.
  2. Where is the Supermarket/Bank/ Museum/Library etc?
  3. Ask them to use google maps to create their own maps of an area they know well.
  4. Use the maps for presentations and as a visual for asking and answering questions: Where is the ………………….? It’s on the left/next to …….

 

TIP! 

Extra resource on Map Making classes here: 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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