TASK_11.1_Close

TARGET LANGUAGE: Students are going to watch a video by Alanais Morisette called "Hands in my pocket" and doing The close exercise. This task consists of filling the gap while listening/watching the video.

AGE: 17

LEVEL: B2

Hand in my pocket

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

I'm broke but I'm
I'm poor but I'm
I'm short but I'm , yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
'cause I've got one in my pocket
And the other one is giving a five
I feel drunk but I'm
I'm young and I'm
I'm but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm and I'm sorry baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite
'cause I've got one hand in my
And the other one is flicking a
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the sign
I'm but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm
I'm but I'm friendly baby
I'm but I'm laughing
I'm but I'm chickenshit
I'm but I'm pretty baby
And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the
And what it all comes down to my
Is that everything's just fine fine fine
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a cab

Task_11_Hotpotatoes

TARGET LANGUAGE: Students are going to watch a video by Alanais Morisette called "Hands in my pocket" and doing five activies : close, jcross, jmatch, jquiz, jmix which has been realised through a programme called hotpotatoes

AGE: 17

LEVEL: B2

TASK_10_Picassa

TARGET LANGUAGE: creating a video with Picasa where students can describe a city they like most, or a journey they did and so on by using English as a mean and the vocabulary they have learnt previously.  in order to present it to the classroom and explain the reason why they have chosen that specific city.

AGE: 17

LEVEL: B1

The purpose of this activity, is to present a video about a city modelled before by the teacher so that students can create one on their own. In this case, the video is about The European Capital of Culture 2019 that has been won by Matera, an Italian City. The video shows the stunning city with its beautiful landscapes so that students can discover a new European city and it is quite useful for students because it links the culture with the use of the English language.

Before watching the video, the teacher should explain to the class that The European Capital of Culture is a city designed very year by the European Union that has to organise a series of cultural events with a strong Eurpean dimension.

Watch my video in Youtube by clicking here!

TASK_9_Power Point Auto-executable

TARGET LANGUAGE: talking about different ways to keep fit, describing the picture that students are going to see and reflecting on the theme in question.

AGE: 13

LEVEL: A2

This is a an autoexecutable powerpoint whose aim is that the classroom can watch it while listenening to a motivating song and reflect and discuss about the pictures presented there. Specifically, this power point has got as topic: "Different ways to keep fit" and students are going to watch first of all these picture based on different sports, guess their names and see if they are right or wrong.

It would be preferable if before the powerpoint set in the lesson, the teacher would elicit some names of the sports that the classroom already know and after the video the teacher would invite them to discuss about sport, if they do any kind of sport and if they like it or not.

TASK_8_Pass the Paper Power Point

TARGET LANGUAGE: It is based on the conditionals, and specifically on The Zero Conditional, The First Conditional, The Third Conditional and the Mixed Conditionals.

AGE: 17

LEVEL: C1

This speaking task is based on a dynamic activity whose aim is to motivate the class to speak aloud without feeling scared in front of the others.

The goal of this task is focused on formulating some sentences starting from some prompts that students can see through a power point. This powerpoint is called "Ball Paper" as during its presentation, students have to throw a paper ball every time they see a "paper ball" slide correlated with a piece of music. Whenever the music stops, there will be a slide with a sentence and the student who has got the paper ball in his/her hands, he/she has to complete the task.

 The content is challenging enough because students' level is C1 and this dynamic activity can push them to do their best.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qk7nufewow0nh49/BALL_PAPER.pptx?dl=0

TASK_7_Listening Worksheet from ESL Short Stories

TARGET LANGUAGE: talking about the topic "City and Crime" in pairs and in groups, listening and understanding an audio, reading and comprehension of a text, writing and completing the crossword concerned about "City and Crime" vocabulary.

AGE: 17

LEVEL: B2


The aim of this task is to practice the all four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) according to students level and age. Studentas are going to work individually, in pairs and in groups on a short story titled "City and Crime" where they have to:

• talk about a picture and  answer some questions
• fill in the blank while listening to an audio
• reading and comprehension of a text
• do a crossword based on the vocabulary of the short story.

This activity is helpful especially for those teachers who have to adapt learning materials from the internet because it is not always possible to use a language laboratory and so it is necessary (as in this case) to make the activities more suitable for the classroom environment.

For the audio click here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfxo1q78s7huhms/ns240.wax?dl=0

TASK_6_Animoto

TARGET LANGUAGE: Revising and using the new vocabulary and phrasal verbs learned about the specific topic thet is "love"

AGE: 15

LEVEL: B2


The aim of this task is to create a short video about love, starting from the following video as an example. In this activity, B2 students can refresh the target language about love and use many phrasal verbs connected to this topic, so that they can better understand how they work. For this task, they can make up a new story by working in pairs and invent a plot as they have a B2 English level and they are quite independent.

 

TASK_5_ Tar Heel Reader

TARGET LANGUAGE: the use of the Present Simple for description (people, animals or things) and the Target Language refers to the use of the vocabulary (nouns and adjectives) connected to the topic.

AGE: 11

LEVEL: A2

The aim of this task is to show a book as a model to my students so that they can create a new one on their own by using their fantasy and selecting the object, the animal or the person they want to describe.
The topic of this curriculum is to describe a "unique" car called Carol by using the Present Simple and some vocabulary necessary for the description.

I'm going to assess this work by considering:

1.  creativity
2.  originality
3.  grammar
4.  vocabulary

Click on it and read my book!

TASK_4_Voice Thread

TARGET LANGUAGE: Describing The Four Seasons.

AGE: 11

LEVEL: A2

The goal of this task is to push students to practice the speaking, starting from some pictures and some questions modelled by the teacher.

The language content of this activity is dealt with the descriptions of the four seasons, using the Present Simple and Present Continuous for describing landscapes as well as the vocabulary concerned with the topic.


Have a look at my Voice Thread here!