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Travel Vlog B1

Travel Vlog B1

  • Level: B1
  • Topic: Social Media + Travel Advice
  • Learning Outcome: Can give information about a familiar culture and country.
  • Grammar: Past Perfect Simple
Key Language:

Past Participles: drunk, eaten, seen, heard, spoken, met, had, paid, done.

Countries: Alabania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City.

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

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Aim of Activity

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. ‘The Wild Atlantic Way’ is an area in the East of Ireland.
  2. Violet asks you to give her video a like.
  3. Violet’s hair is messy because it is always windy in Ireland.
  4. Violet has been drinking more tea since she came to Ireland.
  5. (Show card quickly and hide) Irish people eat boiled, mashed, fried and baked potatoes.
  6. Before Violet came to Ireland she had never seen a wild dolphin.
  7. There are more sheep than people in Ireland.
  8. Hurling is the slowest game on grass.
  9. The Irish Language sounds like English.
  10. Violet can speak Irish.
  11. There is an Irish Legend about St Patrick which says that the reason there are no snakes in Ireland is because he sent them away.
  12. Violet thinks seaweed is very good for the skin.
  13. Before she came to Ireland, Violet had never been trick or treating.
  14. There are a lot of people living in Ireland.

 

TIP!

This activity could be done before watching the animation to introduce the story.

  1. FALSE – It is an area in the West of Ireland.
  2. TRUE
  3. TRUE
  4. TRUE Before she came to Ireland she had never drunk so much tea in a day.
  5. TRUE
  6. TRUE
  7. TRUE
  8. FALSE – it’s the fastest.
  9. FALSE – it sounds completely different.
  10. FALSE – She was very confused when she heard it first.
  11. TRUE
  12. TRUE
  13. FALSE – she had been trick or treating before.
  14. FALSE – it has a small population of only 5 million but 70 million people worldwide are said to have Irish heritage.

Aim of Activity

30 minutes

To reinforce the target language.

Steps for Students

  1. Listen to your teacher and try some past perfect tense exercises.
  2. Remember that the past perfect is used when we want to talk about a past action and an earlier past action in one sentence.
  3. The earlier past action follows the structure subject + had/hadn’t + past participle.
  4. Remember what Violet said:
    • Before I came to Ireland (past action)
    • I had never seen a wild dolphin (earlier past action)
    • I had heard of St Patrick (earlier past action)

5. Go to this link: ACTIVITY 2

6. Take it in turns to complete the sentence using the Past Perfect Tense.

For example:

My phone didn’t work because …………..

I had forgotten to charge it. (earlier past action)

Or

I had dropped it earlier. (earlier past action)

Or

It had gotten wet. (earlier past action)

  1. Demonstrate how to use the Past Perfect Tense in English. See here for a guide and online exercises:GUIDE
  2. Divide the class into small groups of ideally 4 students.
  3. Instruct them to go to this link: ACTIVITY 2
  4. Press ‘start’ and ‘deal’.
  5. They must take it in turns to complete the sentence using the Past Perfect Tense
    • For example: My phone didn’t work because ………….. I had forgotten to charge it. Or I had dropped it earlier. Or It had gotten wet.

 

TITo reinforce the target languageP!

To make this activity more competitive it can be done with the whole class and the team with the best answer to the prompt gets a point. The team with the most points wins. Teams can write their answers on a piece of card and display simultaneously.

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Aim of Activity

60 minutes

To develop spoken skills through a listening task.

Steps for Students

  1. Go to this link ACTIVITY 3
  2. Follow the instructions and play the listening.
  3. Complete the exercises and self-check your answers online with your group.
  4. Now you need to create a short audio tour of a city.
  5. You must select a minimum of 5 places of interest to visit.
  6. Please record your audio on their phones and share or go to www.vocaroo.com
  7. Upload your recordings to a shared space.
  1. Go to this link ACTIVITY 3
  2. Follow the instructions and play the listening for the students of ‘A Tour of London’.
  3. Ask student to work independently on the exercises and self-check their answers.
  4. When they have completed this activity aid with any follow up questions or clarification needed.
  5. Show them how they can use this site for self-study.
  6. Next place them into groups and ask them to create a short audio tour of their city.
  7. They must select a minimum of 5 places of interest to visit.
  8. They can record their audio on their phones and share or go to www.vocaroo.com
  9. Upload the recordings to a shared space (padlet/google classroom/ facebook).
  10. Play the recordings and have the students clap for the best one (loudest clap wins).

 

TIP!

To add variety you could assign each group a different city (that they know well).

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Aim of Activity

15 - 20 minutes

To teach names of countries in English using an online game.

Steps for Students

  1. Go to VIDEO
  2. Watch the video (2 minutes) and repeat the names of the country to help your pronunciation.
  3. Go to ACTIVITY 4
  4. Select ‘sound on’ + ‘voice on’ to hear the pronunciation and correct answer.
  5. Identify the correct country on the European Map.
  6. Check the timer in the top left.
  7. The winning group will have the fastest time!

 

  1. Go to VIDEO And play video (2 minutes) of countries in English encouraging the students to repeat the names to aid with pronunciation.
  2. Share the next link ACTIVITY 4 and have small groups work on shared devices to play an online game with the same map and countries as the previous video.
  3. Ask them to select ‘sound on’ + ‘voice on’ to hear the pronunciation and correct answer.
  4. Students must identify the correct country on the European Map.
  5. The winning group will have the fastest time.

 

TIP!

There are options to do similar activities with other maps as well as to create your own on this site. Printable Maps and follow up activities also available

Answers provided

Aim of Activity

120 minutes

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

Steps for Students

Watch the youtube short on the History of Halloween:

  1. In your group decide on which celebration you will make a one-minute video on.
  2. Who will be the director?
  3. Who will record the video?
  4. Who will act or narrate?
  5. What images will you use?
  6. Will these images be drawings or photos?
  7. Create your video and show to your class.
  1. Show students this short history of Halloween one minute video: ACTIVITY 5
  2. Divide class into groups and assign them a celebration to make a one-minute video about. This celebration could be an international one for example: The History of Valentine’s Day in one minute Or a Local/regional one.
  3. Post the finished videos on the school website/Facebook or Instagram site + please tag BOOST!

 

TIP!

  • If you would like to work more with the theme of Halloween and build on the vocabulary introduced by this lesson see here: TIP 1
  • If you would like the Student Videos to follow the YouTube shorts style please follow the steps here: TIP 2

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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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