Vocabulary Building Project
Theme: Leisure Activities
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Materials
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Information on the platform (Students’ Learning Content)
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Vocabulary for students to learn and practice
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Links for students to explore
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Teaching Plan
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Learning objectives
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Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Reference links for teachers
Teaching Materials
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Task 1
Appendix (Theme 4
Task 1)
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Task 2
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Task 3
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Task 4
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Matching cards (for carrying out similar activities as Appendix (Theme 4
Theme 1(Animals and their babies) Task 1)
Matching cards)
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Vocabulary Building Project
(Theme: Leisure Activities)
Learning Objectives:
Vocabulary learning: To enrich students’ knowledge about names of different outdoor and indoor activities
Vocabulary building skills: To equip students with the skill to derive verbs from the nouns
Information on the platform:
 Vocabulary for students to learn and practice:
Topic
Vocabulary
covered in
the game
Extra
vocabulary
for
enhancement
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Vocabulary:
Outdoor activities
Word derivation skill:
Noun ->Verbs
(Outdoor activities)
Vocabulary:
Indoor activities
Word derivation skill:
Noun ->Verbs
(Indoor activities)
rowing
row
bowling
bowl
skiing
ski
boxing
box
sailing
sail
reading
read
skating
skate
sewing
sew
surfing
surf
cooking
cook
diving
dive
singing
sing
jogging
jog
drawing
draw
riding
ride
writing
write
cycling
cycle
surfing
surf
hiking
hike
washing
wash
farming
farm
shopping
shop
planting
plant
ironing
iron
feeding
feed
acting
act
fencing
fence
bathing
bathe
dancing
dance
talking
talk
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Links for students to explore:
Level 1: Outdoor activities
1.
Story: The Lucky envelope
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-lucky-envelope.htm
2.
Story song: Sail the sea
http://www.mightybook.com/MightyBook_free/books/i_sail_the_sea/I_sail_the_sea.html
3.
Vocabulary Word Groups – Sports
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/clothing.shtml
4.
Online sports games
http://www.learn4good.com/games/sports.htm
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Sports games and videos
http://kids.yahoo.com/sports
Level 2: Outdoor activities
1.
Story: Football crazy, football mad
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-football-crazy.htm
2.
Surf's up
http://www.hkedcity.net/english/watch/film/findout.phtml?eread_film_id=42
3.
Dictionary – sports
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/sports.shtml
4.
Ball or no ball?
http://www.britishcouncil.org/tw/kids-games-multimatch-sports.htm
5.
Dictionary – verbs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/verbs.shtml
Level 3: Indoor activities
1.
Story: The Twins week
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/kids/kids-stories/kids
-stories-little-kids/kids-stories-twins-week.htm
2.
Dictionary – toys
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/toys.shtml
3.
Craft Finder
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/tool/craftfinder_tlp/
4.
English Campus - Crossword
http://www.hkedcity.net/english/play/crossword/
5.
Chess Kids Academy
http://www.chesskids.com/kidzone/index1.shtml
Level 4: Indoor activities
1.
Story: My Dad
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-my-dad.htm
2.
Dictionary – verbs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/verbs.shtml
3.
English Campus - Watch
http://www.hkedcity.net/english/watch/film/
4.
Kids indoor games
http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/2008/12/101-indoor-acti
vities?currentPage=2
5.
Food recipes
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/
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Teaching Plan on Leisure Activities
To enrich students’ knowledge about names of outdoor and indoor activities;
To equip students with the skill to derive verbs from the nouns (outdoor and indoor activities);
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To encourage students to learn about leisure activities through reading a story.
Materials:
- Task 1: outdoor and indoor activities pictures cards, letter cards (Appendix (theme 4 task 1))
- Task 2: pictures cards(from task 1), letter cards(from task 1), worksheet 1
- Task 3: worksheet 2, online story (The lucky envelope)
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-lucky-envelope.htm
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Task 4: worksheet 3, online story (The Twins week)
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/kids/kids-stories/kids-stories-little-kids/kids-stories-twins-we
ek.htm
Tasks:
Task 1 – How do you spell…?
Target items: names of outdoor and indoor activities
Materials: outdoor and indoor activities pictures cards, letter cards (Appendix (theme 4 task 1))
Steps:
Level 1 (for less able students):
1. Divide students groups of 4 (2 teams) and give out a set of picture cards and letter cards.
2. Students put the cards on the desk with the white side facing themselves.
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4.
One student randomly turns over 1 card, 2 teams spell the word by rearranging the letters. The team
first spells out the word can take the picture card.
The team who gets more picture cards will be the winner.
Level 2 (for more able students):
1. Divide students in groups of 4 (2 teams, team A and team B) and give out a set of picture cards and
letter cards.
2. Students put the cards on the desk with the white side facing themselves
3. Team A draws a card and speaks out the name of the clothes or accessories in the picture, team B spells
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the word by rearranging the letters. If the team spells the word correctly, the team can take the picture
card.
The team who fails to speak out the name of the clothes or spell the word, the other team can take the
picture card.
The team who gets more picture cards will be the winner.
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Task 2 – Nouns and verbs of the activities
Target items: the skill to derive verbs from nouns (outdoor and indoor activities)
Materials: pictures cards (from task 1), letter cards (from task 1), worksheet 1
Steps:
1. Divide students into two groups (group A and group B) and give out a set of letter cards.
2. Teacher shows one picture to students. Students from group A form the name of the activities, while
students from group B form the verbs of the activities.
3. Teacher asks students to stick the verb and noun pair on the wall (e.g. row, rowing).
4. Teacher consolidates the relationship between nouns and verbs of the activities.
5. Students work together to finish the worksheet.
Task 3 – Reading (The lucky envelope)
Target items: vocabulary related to outdoor activities
Materials: worksheet 2, online story (The Lucky envelope)
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-lucky-envelope.htm
Steps:
1. Teacher asks students what they would like to do when they have won a holiday.
2. Teacher reads the story to the students.
3. Teacher asks students what the characters in the story like to do during the holiday.
4. Students finish the worksheet base on the information in the story.
Task 4 – Reading (The twins week)
Target items: vocabulary related to indoor and outdoor activities
Materials: Worksheet 3, online story (The twins week)
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/kids/kids-stories/kids-stories-little-kids/kids-stories-twins-week.htm
Steps:
1. Teacher asks students to brainstorm different types of activities they do every day. Teacher writes the
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activities on the blackboard.
Teacher reads the story to the students.
Teacher divides students in groups of 7. Each group is assigned a day of the week. Students based on
the story to do actions for other students to guess what activities they are doing and which day they are
assigned.
Teacher asks students which activity they like most if they are the characters in the story.
Students finish the worksheet base on the information in the story.
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Reference links for teachers:
Outdoor activities
1.
2.
3.
4.
Title:
Internet picture dictionary – Sports
Link:
http://www.pdictionary.com/english/browse.php?db=sports
Description:
This website contains pictures and names of different sports, which are easy for
students to understand and learn more words about sports.
Title:
Sports flashcards
Link:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards-sports1.pdf
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards-sports2.pdf
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards-sports1.pdf
Description:
This website contains flashcards on sports and can be printed for lesson use.
Title:
Sports worksheets
Link:
http://bogglesworldesl.com/sports_worksheets.htm
Description:
This website contains worksheets (e.g. crosswords, writings, flash cards, etc.) for
teachers to carry out activities related to sports.
Title:
EC Boundless – Sports
Link:
http://www.hkedcity.net/article/ec-boundless/sport/index.phtml
Description:
It includes online learning materials for students (e.g. information on different kinds of
sports, tips of becoming a sports coach, words & phrases related to sport) and a
teaching plan for teachers to carry out classroom activities.
5.
Title:
Sport Academy
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/academy/default.stm
Description:
This website includes video about different sports. Teachers can also download some
sports masks for students to role play the sportsman.
Indoor activities
1.
2.
Title:
Board game maker
Link:
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames/
Description:
This website contains ready made board games for teachers to carry out classroom
activities. Teachers can also make their own board game using the board game maker.
Title:
Indoor activities for kids
Link:
http://www.indooractivitiesforkids.com/
http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/2008/12/101-indoor-activities?currentPage=2
Description:
These two websites contain ideas on indoor activities for kids, which are easy for
teachers to carry out indoor activities with students during free time.
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Task 2 – Worksheet 1
Worksheet 1
Name: ______________________ (
)
Date: ___________________
What are these activities? Write the verbs and nouns of these activities.
noun
e.g. I like
verb
rowing . I usually
row
noun
1. I like
verb
. I often
the sea.
noun
2. I like
verb
. I often
into the sea.
noun
3. I like
verb
. I often
4. I like
food every Sunday.
after school.
verb
noun
.I
noun
5. I like
on the boat.
delicious
verb
.I
.
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Task 3 – Worksheet 2
Worksheet 2 – The lucky envelope
Name: ______________________ (
)
Date: ___________________
Read the story “The lucky envelope” and finish the questions.
1.
Who?
Dalia
Where does he/she want to go?
What can he/she do there?
Dad
camp site
sleep in the tent, gets lots of fresh air
Ahmed
Mum
2. Where did they go for the holiday at the end?
They went to ____________________________ to have the holiday. That is the place where
Grandma lived.
3. What did they do during the holiday?
Dalia
·
·
swam in the sea
Dad
·
·
went shopping
Ahmed
·
·
got some fresh air
Mum
·
·
got some nice food
4. What do you want to do during the holiday? Draw the activity and finish the sentence.
I want to go to ____________________________________
because I can ________________________________ there.
Online story – The lucky envelope: http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-lucky-envelope.htm
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Task 4 – Worksheet 3
Worksheet 3 – The twins week
Name: ______________________ (
)
Date: ___________________
Read the story “The twins week” about what the twins do every day and write the
activities in the table.
Days of the week
Monday
Tuesday
Activities
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take a shower
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watch TV with the fish
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday
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Which activity do you like most? When do you do this activity?
I like ______________________________________________________________.
I _______________________________________ on _______________________.
Online story – The twins week:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/kids/kids-stories/kids-stories-little-kids/kids-stories-twins-week.htm
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