Project
„Holidays“
Silke Stienitzka
Katharina Wimmer
Introduction
Our project deals with the topic “holidays”
and is based on Unit 1 of the New
You&Me 2 “Back from our holidays”. The
exercises have been designed for revision
and practising, either at school or at home.
This project was created by Silke Stienitzka and
Katharina Wimmer in the Proseminar
„Fachdidaktik AHS - eLearning in the English
classroom“ with Walter Steinkogler at Salzburg
University, January 2007.
Overview
• Vocabulary
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Mindmap (Mindmanager Smart)
Flashcards (JMatch)
Vocabulary exercises (JMatch)
Crossword “Holidays“ (JCross)
• Grammar
– Past Tense sentences (JCloze)
– Past Tense short texts (JCloze)
• Texts
– Dialogue 1 (JCloze)
– Dialogue 2 (LingoFox)
Vocabulary
Mindmap
This mindmap holds
the most important
words concerning
holidays. We used the
picture dictionary as a
basis and added some
more words which we
considered useful for
talking about holidays.
File:
Mindmap_holidays.htm
Vocabulary
Flash cards
The flash cards
shall help the
students to
memorize and
deepen the new
words.
File:
04_Flashcards.htm
Vocabulary
Vocabulary exercises
These two vocabulary
exercises are based on
the mindmap and the
flashcards.
Files:
04_Choose_the_correct
_word.htm
JMatch_transportation1.
htm
Vocabulary
Crossword
The crossword is the
last vocabulary item.
The students are
asked to fill in the
words based on given
definitions.
File:
CrosswordHolidays2.
htm
Grammar
Past Tense sentences
These grammar exercises
help the students to repeat the
correct past tense forms.
One exercise focuses on
regular forms and the other
one on irregular forms.
Files:
01_PastTense_RegularVerbs.htm
03_PastTense_IrregularVerbs.htm
Grammar
Past Tense short texts
The students shall insert the
correct past tense forms in
these 3 consecutive short
texts.
File:
JCloze_London_3.htm
Texts
Dialogue 1 - JCloze
The students have
already read a similar
dialogue in their
textbooks. Now, they
should complete it with
the correct forms of the
verbs given on the left
hand side.
File:
07_Talking_about_the_
holidays.htm
Texts
Dialogue 2 - LingoFox
The students shall
complete the text by
inserting the correct
endings of the verbs.
File:
A_holiday_in_Spain_
Worksheet1.doc
Silke Stienitzka & Katharina Wimmer
WS 2006/07