My Project

I'll show you how!

Main objectives:

a) Students listen to audio recordings and answer to comprehension questions.

b) Students write a short text explaining a process, using imperatives, prepositions and some adverbs of sequence.

Level: Intermediate

Class type: 8 to 10 year-old children (students of English as a FL).

Aim: Explain processes using imperatives, prepositions and adverbs of sequence.

Activity focus: listening-writing-speaking

Time: 5 minutes recording.

Material: Computer with access to Internet, Headphones, notebooks, pencils.

Procedure:

First Class

1.            Teacher explains students how to go to the blog “Play and Learn” which is the blog of the class.

2.            Teacher tells students to go to “JokeyCraft” page in the blog.

3.            Teacher tells students they will listen to an audio about how to build a JokeyCraft, in the game “Minecraft”. (the audio describes the process of building a work table, using different verbs in imperative, prepositions and adverbs of sequence in English).

4.            Students listen to the audio.

5.             Teacher gives students a paper sheet with questions about the video and students answer the questions.

6.             Teacher and students talk about how to explain processes in English using imperatives and expressions like First, then, finally.

Following Classes

7.            Students will visit the blog and will listen to the audio again.

8.            Students will write down a process in English about something they know how to make or build (it could be a procedure of Minecraft, a recipe, or how to fix something) and they will start their explanations with the phrase “Iĺl Tell You How”.

9.            Students will use the different imperative verbs, prepositions and adverbs of sequence they worked in class. (They can complement their wrintings with pictures or drawings of the different steps of the process).

10.          Students will present their Processes to the class at the end of the course.

11.          Optionally: Students could record their presentations using Audacity and share them in the Blog.