Transport: bus, bike, bicycle, train, motorbike, boat, rickshaw, cart, boat, double decker bus, top floor, driver
There is an international day at school. The pupils are talking about how they get to school in different countries. Three students from England, India and Italy join them online and share their experience. Can you guess who goes by Double-decker? Who do you think usually rides a bike? And do you know what a riskshaw is?
How about you? How do you ususally travel to school?
Checking understanding of the video and practising vocabulary.
You’ll need a computer/tablet/mobile phone, internet connection, class projector
Gaining familiarity with the vocabulary and revising terminology.
Click the link: ACTIVITY 2
You’ll need a computer/tablet/mobile phone, internet connection, class projector
Game system – tutorial:
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Practising creating sentences and questions with adverbs of frequency and question adverbs.
Click the link: ACTIVITY 3
Students will make simple sentences using verbs from the spinner wheel and adverbs of frequency.
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Developing pronunciation of key language focused on sound phonics /ai/ and /ei/.
To practise vowel sounds and help students to remember the words you can use 2 more activities:
/ai/- RIDE, BIKE, DRIVER, WHY, SOMETIMES, TRAVEL BY
/ei/- TRAIN, STATION, TAKE, ALWAYS, NAME, TODAY
Engaging creatively with the language and revising the usage of question adverbs.
Activity 2: “How do you get to school” questionnaire – higher level English.
How do you get to school?
Who do you go to school with?
How long does it take you to get to school?
QUESTIONNAIRE: to open the questionnaire, click on share (top right) – download
Activity 2: “How do you get to school” questionnaire – lower-level English.
If your students’ English is not so good, do the simpler questionnaires. There are two of them. In each, the pupils ask only one question and write down the names of their classmates according to their answers. In the last column they write the total.
QUESTIONNAIRE 1 – Pupils ask the question HOW DO YOU GET TO SCHOOL?
QUESTIONNAIRE 2 – Pupils ask the question WHO DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL WITH?
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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.