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Travel Vlog A2

Travel Vlog A2

  • Level: A2
  • Topic: Social Media + Travel Advice
  • Learning Outcome: Can give information about a familiar culture and country.
  • Grammar: 'should' for advice; irregular verbs
Key Language:

Ireland: windy, mashed potatoes, dolphin, seal, hurling, legends, seaweed bath, Halloween, heritage, great grandparents, red hair, sheep

Social Media: vlog, subscribers, like (noun), hit, subscribe, fun fact, comment box, youtuber.

A teenage girl has created a Vlog about her travel experiences in Ireland. She guides us through some of the interesting things she has done and facts she has learned about the country.
Can your remember the 10 things she did in Ireland? Where should she visit next? What 10 things should she try in your country?

Transcript

Travel Vlog: My Top Ten_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. Ireland is a country in the South West of Europe.
  2. Violet is a youtuber.
  3. Ireland is a very windy country.
  4. Irish people don’t like tea.
  5. Irish people don’t like potatoes.
  6. This is a wild seal.
  7. There are only a few sheep in Ireland.
  8. Hurling is a new Irish Sport.
  9. Not many people speak Irish as a first language.
  10. Violet understands Irish.
  11. St Patrick’s Day is an Irish Festival on the 17th of March.
  12. Violet is having a seaweed bath.
  13. Halloween is originally an Irish Festival.
  14. All Irish people have red hair.

 

TIP!

This activity could be done before the video is played and as a follow up activity.

  1. FALSE – Ireland is a country in the North West of Europe.
  2. TRUE
  3. TRUE
  4. FALSE -They drink a lot of tea.
  5. FALSE – They eat potatoes mashed, boiled, fried and baked regularly.
  6. FALSE – This is a wild dolphin.
  7. FALSE – There are more sheep than people in Ireland.
  8. FALSE – It’s over 2000 years old.
  9. TRUE – English is the first language for most Irish people.
  10. FALSE – She was very confused the first time she heard Irish spoken.
  11. TRUE – and it is celebrated all over the world.
  12. TRUE
  13. TRUE
  14. FALSE

Aim of Activity

90 minutes

To provide students with a controlled practice of vocabulary for social media.

Steps for Students

  1. Find someone in the class who likes the same youtubers as you.
  2. Prepare a short presentation for your class on this youtuber and why you like to view this channel.
  3. You can video your presentation if you wish and play for your class.
  1. Ask the class the following questions:
    • Do you watch youtube?
    • Who are your favourite youtubers?
    • Do you subscribe to any youtube channels?
    • Have you ever made any youtube videos?
  2. Divide students into groups and show them the enclosed Activity 2 with youtube task.
  3. Allow students time in class to work on or assign for homework.
  4. Schedule time for group or individual presentations

 

TIP!

  • Check the content that they are planning to show and encourage them to use youtube sites with some educational value.
  • For shyer students give them the option to video their presentation and play it for the class.

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Activity attachment

Travel vlog A2 Activity 2
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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To aid with memorisation and correct pronunciation of irregular verbs.

Steps for Students

  1. Click on this link ACTIVITY 3
  2. Select ‘Flashcards’ to learn the irregular past verbs.
  3. Click on the audio to hear the correct pronunciation.
  4. Select ‘Match’ to play a quick game

Click the link: ACTIVITY 3

  1. Ask students to open the link on devices in groups or play together on an Interactive board.
  2. Use the ‘flashcard’ option to learn the pronunciation and past tenses of the verbs.
  3. Emphasise pronunciation and click the audio to check.
  4. Use the ‘match’ function as a quick follow up activity (match base verb with past forms by dragging).
  5. Rewatch the animation and listen again for these verbs.

 

TIP!

  • See here for more irregular verb audio + exercises: TIP 1
  • See here for a quick game TIP 2 to choose the correct order e.g. drink, drank, drun

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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: ACTIVITY 4
  2. Click on the picture of the Pyramid.
  3. Select type of Activity: (Matching Pairs/Spot the Difference/What goes together?)
  4. Select the level: please select ‘hard’
  5. Play at the same time as your partner and see who completes the activity first!
  1. Go to ACTIVITY 4
  2. Click on the picture of the Pyramid.
  3. Select type of Activity:
    • Matching Pairs
    • Spot the Difference
    • What goes together?
  4. Select the level:
    • Easy
    • Medium
    • Hard (is recommended for this age group)
  5. Ideally arrange the class into small groups and have them play the games together.

TIP!

To pre-teach pronunciation of countries in English go to this link: TIP

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Aim of Activity

60 minutes

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

Steps for Students

  1. Look at this padletACTIVITY 5
  2. Can you give advice to teenagers from other countries who want to visit your country + region?
  3. Please add images/photos and videos to your padlet posts.
  4. Which country would you like to visit in the BOOST group?
  1. Show students the link to the padlet for this activity ACTIVITY 5
  2. Explain that they need to make some suggestions for a tourist visiting their country or region. The whole class must agree on 10 things to try when visiting.
  3. Show examples from other countries already created (for example Ireland).
  4. Encourage students to create sentences using the structure: You should + infinitive
  5. Ask students to find images or online videos to illustrate their ideas.
  6. Read posts with advice for other countries + discuss which one they would most like to visit.

 

TIP!

  • If there is time students could create their own photos and videos to support their statements.
  • Another follow up activity would be to research other countries in groups and present results (use the padlet to help).

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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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