EV Resort Lesson Plan — Fall 2014
Overall Objective: Students will play immersive language games and participate in
cooperative competitions to practice vocabulary and sentence patterns relevant to going
to the beach and a resort.
Required Learning Materials:
-Under the Sea Song
-Jaws danger music
-Poster with rules in English
-Shark hat
-Print-out sea creature icons, 3 for each icon (fish, octopus, jellyfish, shark, turtle, trash,
alternative: crab, squid, dolphin, whale)
-buckets x2, fishing poles x2, life jackets x2, boats x2, paddles x2, volleyball x2
-flashcards representing each of above boat objects to give as rentals (3 flashcards for
each item
-beach ball with pictures of sea creatures; beach ball with pictures of boat objects
-money
-paper at kiosk saying the sell value of each sea-creature icon
-chart saying how much each boat object costs to rent a
-two wooden kiosks
-13 crosswords per session
-stamps
-passports (each student should come in with a passport)
Incentive System: All of English Village will use a stamp system where students are
awarded stamps in their passport in between lessons. Stamps may be awarded for:
participation and volunteering; winning games; completing crossword activities; good
behavior. No more than 12 stamps can be rewarded per session. Stamps may be redeemed
for prizes that are to be determined on a weekly basis for each two-day English Village
program.
Activities (time)
1A
Student and
Teacher
Introductions
(3 minutes)
1B
Morning only:
Rules Review
(3 minutes)
1C
Sharks and Sea
Creatures Game
(10-12 minutes)
1D
Bucket Relay
(10-12 minutes)
SESSION 1
Procedure
Teachers will introduce
themselves and ask students their
names. Then, teachers split
students into teams by having
them draw one of two sea
creatures from the bucket.
Teachers will TPR + call and
repeat each rule briefly.
Each round there is a shark and a
group of sea creatures. The shark
faces the wall, unable to see the
sea creatures who try to run by to
get to the other side. Before each
round, every player becomes a
sea creature and does the sea
creature’s TPR. During each
round, the students will
constantly repeat the name of the
sea creature as they run by. If a
shark catches a creature, the
student is out for one round and
the teachers explain that “The
Shark eats a (starfish).”
Optionally, students may become
the shark. MODEL GAME
FIRST.
Students line up in two teams.
Two people from each team will
run up to the water and “fish” by
leaning over the dock and picking
up a sea creature vocabulary icon.
They will return to the bucket,
exclaim “I caught a _________.”,
then sit down. The next person in
line may then run. The team all
Vocab
-What is your
name?
-My name is
______.
-Hi ________.
Materials
Under the Sea
Little Mermaid
song plays as
kids enter.
-Listen to the
Speaker
-English is fun.
-Always play
nice.
-Raise your
hand.
-Never give up.
Poster with the
rules in
English.
-Fish
-Octopus
-Jellyfish
-Shark
-Turtle
(alternative)
-crab
-squid
-dolphin
-whale
-SHARK
ATTACK!
-Shark Hat
-Print-outs of
fish
-Jaws music in
the background
-I caught a
________.
-Sea creature
vocabulary
icons
-Buckets
seated first wins.
Students line up in two teams.
1E
Fishing Pole
Two people from each team will
Relay
run up to the water and fish a
(10-12 minutes) vocabulary icon out of the water
with a fishing pole. Then, they
will sell what they fished to
someone at the rental kiosk
(prices will be listed on a sheet of
paper at the kiosk). The teacher
ask what they caught, they will
way “I caught a _________.” If
kids are advanced enough and
time allows, they may take on the
role of the teacher and ask the
question to the next student in
line.
Students will receive a stamp and
1F
STAMPS/BREAK complete a word search activity
WORD-SEARCH for more stamps.
ACTIVITY
Activities (time)
2A
TPR Vocab
Learning
(5 minutes)
2B
Kinesthetic
Object-Call
Vocab Game
(5-7 minutes)
2C
Renting
Roleplay with
real money
(8-10 minutes)
SESSION 2
Procedure
One teacher holds object while
the other performs TPR. Students
mimic TPR while repeating.
Eventually, teacher performs
TPR without saying the word,
but students copy TPR and say
the word.
Students line up in two teams.
One teacher performs an items
TPR. First person in line from
each team runs to the object,
picks it up and says its name.
To start, each teacher puts on a
lay and takes a kiosk. Students
split up and line up at either
kiosk. Teacher asks what they
would like to rent, student
responds with what they would
like to rent based on what they
can afford. Teacher gives
students the corresponding
card(s). MODEL FIRST.
-What did you
catch?
-I caught a
_______.
-fishing poles
-sea creature
vocabulary
icons
-money
-paper
designating
value of
vocabulary
icons
-big wooden
kiosk in the
room
-Reviews all
vocab from all
lessons
-Crosswords
-Stamps
-Passports
Vocabulary
-fishing pole
-boat
-paddle
-volleyball
-bucket
-life jacket
Materials
-fishing pole
-boat
-paddle
-volleyball
-bucket
-life jacket
Same as 2A
Same as 2A
-“What would
you like to
rent?”
-“I would like
to rent a
______ (and a
______).
- See 2A
-Kiosk
-Cards
representing
objects (do not
give real
objects!!
Yikes)
-Money
-Chart with
cost of objects
Teachers start at kiosk wearing
lays. Students split into two
teams. First student of each line
runs up. The teacher asks what
they would like to rent, then the
student asks to rent one object
(with or without moneyoptional). After giving them the
card, the student takes the
teacher’s lay then plays the
seller, and asks the following
student who runs up what they
would like to rent. After a student
has been both the customer and
the seller, they sit at the end of
the line. For the last student, each
teacher will rent something as
well, so each student plays both
roles. The team with everyone
sitting down first wins. MODEL
FIRST.
Students sit on either side of
2E
Volleyball Game volleyball net. Each side starts
(5-10 minutes)
with either the sea creature
volleyball or the boat item
volleyball. Each turn, each side
exchanges volleyballs. The
student on each side that catches
the volleyball chooses a sea
creature (if they get the sea
creature ball) or a boat object (if
they get the boat item ball) and
says “I caught a _____” or (I
would like to rent a ____”. This
is not a race, so teachers may
help students each time they
receive a ball. If this is too
challenging, teachers may only
ask students to say one of the
objects.
Students will receive a stamp and
2F
STAMPS/BREAK complete a word search activity
CROSSWORD
for more stamps.
ACTIVITY
2D
Renting Swap
Relay
(8-10 minutes)
-Same as 2C.
-Same as 2C.
-Sea creatures
and “I caught a
_____.”
-Boat objects
and “I would
like to rent a
______.”
-Two beach
balls, one with
pictures of sea
creatures,
another with
pictures of boat
objects. If there
is room, each
volleyball may
also have its
expression (sea
creatures: “I
caught a
_____”; boat
objects: “I
would like to
rent a _____.”
-Reviews all
vocab from all
lessons
-Crosswords
-Stamps
-Passports
SESSION 3
Procedure
Students line up in two lines. One
student from each line sits in a
boat, which is surrounded by sea
creatures and objects. Two
teachers stand in the middle. Each
teacher says to their line, “I need a
____.” The first student in line
runs to the boat. The student in the
boat finds the object and gives it
to this student. This student runs
the object to the teacher saying “ I
have a ____.” The first student to
finish wins a point for their team.
Then, rotation:
-Student in boat goes to the back
of their team’s line
-Student who ran the object takes
the teachers play and performs the
“ I need a ____” role for their
team”
-Teacher or student who just
played the “I need a ____” role
goes into the boat.
The game continues in this
fashion until it ends. To make it
more challenging, teachers can
require students to retrieve the
objects both teams ask for.
MODEL FIRST. See video
demonstration at this link.
Teachers will stand in front of
3B
Sea Song
students and teach the song “ hole
(15-20 minutes) in the middle of the sea (see
below). Each time an object is
introduced, it is added to the song.
Each time an object needs to be
chosen, the students may choose
it. Each time an object is added,
teachers line up the objects so
students may see the line of
objects and not forget the order of
the song. Each time an object or
sea creature vocabulary item is
Activities (time)
3A
Boat-fishing
relay
competition
(15-20 minutes)
Vocabulary
-“I need a
_____.”
-“I have a
_____.”
-Sea creatures
-Boat Objects
Materials
-Sea creature
objects
-Boat item
objects
-Boats
Hole in the
middle of the
sea song + sea
creatures and
boat objects.
-Same as 3A.
-powerpoint
with lyrics?
sung, teachers and objects perform
the corresponding TPR. See video
at this link.
3C
STAMPS
“There’s a hole in the middle of
the sea, there’s a hole in the
middle of the sea. There’s a hole,
there’s a hole, there’s a hole in the
middle of the sea. There’s a blank
in a hole in the middle of the
sea…There’s a ______ on a
______ in a hole in the middle of
the sea etc etc”.
Students will receive their final
stamps.
-Stamps
-Passports