TN-Back_to_school_4-6.pdf

Teacher’s Notes

Back to school

by Magdalena Kondro

Type of activity: individual and group work

Focus: deinitions, vocabulary connected with

summer festivals, listening, reading and writing

skills, spelling

Level: elementary – pre-intermediate; grades 4–6

Time: 45 minutes

Preparation: Bring two monolingual dictionaries,

preferably simpliied ones for learners, such as

Macmillan’s Essential Dictionary. Make one copy of

Student’s Worksheet 1 for each student and four

copies of Student’s Worksheet 2 for the whole class.

4. Teams take it in turns to choose a word and say

whether it is correct or not. If the word is misspelt,

they must be able to write the correct version on

the board. They get a point for each correct

answer and then all teams cross the word out. If

they give a wrong answer –, e.g. say a word is

correct when it is not or vice-versa or are unable

to correct the mistake if it is misspelt – they lose

all their accumulated points. The word can then

be chosen by another team. The team with the

most points at the end wins.

Answers: the correct versions of all the words

are underlined in the article.

Procedure:

1. Give each student a copy of Student’s Worksheet 1.

Pre-teach the following words: mud, slide,

ireworks display, kite, tail, bucket, battle,

ireighters, hose. Students then read about

unusual summer festivals around the world and

choose their favourite event. Have the class vote

for their favourite festival by raising their hands.

Ask a few students to justify their choices.

2. Have the students read the article again and

answer the questions. Explain any words they ind

dificult. In pairs, students compare their answers.

Check the answers with the whole class.

Answers: 1. On the beach in Boryeong, South

Korea. 2. There is a irework display. 3. Strong

winds blow across the country. 4. Ten or more.

5. Pirate costumes. 6. They eat nice food at

restaurants and go dancing. 7. Goggles and gloves

for protection. 8. Fireighters.

3. Students put away their Student’s Worksheets 1

and are not allowed to use them in the next stage.

Divide the class into 4 teams and give each one a

copy of Student’s Worksheet 2. Explain that it

contains 16 words from the article about the

summer festivals, but some of the words are

misspelt. The teams then have 4 minutes to decide

which words are correct and which are not, as

well as to correct the mistakes.

Extension

Students choose a summer festival in Poland and

write a short description of it modelled on the article

from Student’s Worksheet 1. They should include

information on when and where the festival takes

place, what happens during the event and any other

interesting details. Encourage them to do their

research on the Internet. You can suggest the

following festivals to write about: Wolin Slavs and

Viking Festival (Festiwal Słowian i Wikingów w

Wolinie), Sail Szczecin (Dni Morza), Brave Festival in

Wrocław, Festival of Ancient Culture ‘Common

Cultural Heritage’ in Malbork (Festiwal Kultury

Dawnej).

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