May 07, 2021

Let’s go Green!

Additional Info

  • Name: Let’s go Green!

  • OVERVIEW

  • Linguistic dimension

  • CEFR Level: A2, B1
  • Linguistic dimension - Skill(s): Listening / Speaking / Writing
  • Duration: 2x45
  • Target language: ENGLISH or any other

  • ICT dimension

  • ICT resources:

    or http://www.jukeboxprint.com/editor/poster_creator.php

     

    • Samples of posters

     
  • ICT competences: • Make word clouds • Play a drag-drop online game • Create an oral presentation or a comic strip or an interactive wall • Relate information to complete tasks • Create an online poster

  • Detailed description of the task

  • Situation / theme(s): Recycling
  • I can...:
    • Write short, simple notes or messages
    • Understand the gist in short, clear, simple messages and announcements
    • Understand phrases and high frequency vocabulary
    • Communicate by carrying out simple tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar topics
    • Use a series of phrases and sentences to describe familiar topics in simple terms
  • Product: Learners are able to create a poster to show the importance of recycling
  • Product requirements or prerequisites:

    In order to implement this lesson, an IWB is necessary as well as computers/ tablets for the learners so they can use the free software suggested during the teaching session(s). In most cases, learners need to create an account for using this software.
  • Process:

    PRE TASK CYCLE

    Activity 1:  The teacher projects a PPT slide with the sign of recycling and asks students what they think it stands for.

    GR recycle symbolActivity 2: Students brainstorm and use Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) or Tagul (http://tagul.com ) to say which things we can recycle. They compare and report their findings in class.

    GR go green 2

    Activity 3:Click on http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/clean-and-green or http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/vocabulary-games/recycling?page=0%2C2 to play a recycling game on the IWB.

    Activity 4: Students should match the words with their definitions either on a PPT slide or on a worksheet.

    Screenshot 2016 05 09 18.10.21

    Activity 5: Listen to the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtoeZ9Nkeqk and write down at least two tips about reducing, reusing, recycling proposed in the song.

    TASK CYCLE

    Activity 6: In groups, ask the students to discuss and decide what actions should be taken in their school/ neighbourhood/area to support or promote recycling- reusing-reducing.  Use voki (www.voki.com) or penzu (www.penzu.com)  or toondoo (www.toondoo.com )to report your findings in class You are going to show your presentations to the rest of the classes at school in order to make them realize how important recycling is.

    LANGUAGE FOCUS

    Activity 7:  Students are shown  a pattern of how to form the imperative

    verb

    recycle

    reduce

    reuse
    don’t + verb

    don’t recycle

    don’t reduce

    don’t reuse

    Let’s + verb

    Let’s recycle

    Let’s reduce

    Let’s reuse
    Subject + should + verb

    You should recycle

    You should reduce

    You should reuse

    Activity 8:  Students are shown posters about recycling and discuss the language used  as well as the characteristics of good and bad ones (i.e. place of motto, colour schemes, pictures etc.)          Screenshot 2016 05 09 18.10.32 Activity 9: In groups, the students using the imperative, should create a poster for their school in order to try to show the importance of recycling. Use https://www.lucidpress.com/pages/examples/free-online-poster-maker or http://www.jukeboxprint.com/editor/poster_creator.php .

    They present them in class and they vote for the best one!
  • Division of roles (optional): Group work
  • Consolidating activities suggested or follow up plan:

    The teacher could use the following resources  to further explore the topic.

    http://ebooks.edu.gr/2013/books-pdf.php?course=DSGYM-A114  (THINK TEEN 1 – ADVANCED, Workbook Tasks: p.78-9, Tasks 4 and 5 for imperative sentences and 1, 2,and  3 for vocabulary expansion)
  • Success factors or evaluation criteria:

    Students have carried out the tasks well if they have successfully reached the outcome of the lessonnamely, a video/comic strip/poster/short story/leaflet to  promote recycling. The teacher will evaluate using direct observation of the task performance according to the success criteria described below and can also provide students with a self - evaluation sheet to check if they have responded appropriately to the CEFR criteria set for this lesson namely the “can do” statements.

    Students have done well if in terms of :

    • Content: They have made presentations for the rest of the classes at school in order to make them realize how important recycling is.

    • Vocabulary: They have used vocabulary and expressions connected to the topic of recycling.

    • Grammatical correctness: They have used imperative sentences correctly; there has been minor influence by mother tongue in learners’ speech. They have used the correct verb tense, word order and spelling. 

    • Fluency: They have been able to talk without lacking words or making too many mistakes;

    • Coherence: They have been able to link sentences with fitting connectors and used conjunctions quite frequently;

    • Interaction: They are active within the small and larger groups, and share their ideas and accept other people’s opinion and criticism.

    • Pronunciation: They could pronounce the words used correctly and   could correct some major mistakes made  by classmates or group members;
  • Authors: Vasiliki (Bessie) Gioldasi, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  • Didactic added value of the task and other information

  • Practical hints for teachers:

    Teachers should have tried all these sites and created accountsin order to avoid delays throughout the trialling.

    Students should have been given time before the actual teaching to become familiar themselves with the aforementioned ICT tools.

    The teacher can modify the activities according to the resources, equipment and learners’ interests.

    The whole learning scenario is provided but no time is given for each teaching session as this may vary according to the learners’ level, ICT preparation, equipment etc.
  • Additional methodological or didactic comments:

    This lesson aims at building attitudes and values. It was designed to introduce and not elaborate on the topic of recycling to 12 year-old-learners.
  • Reasons why this task is a model of best practices:

    It is based on material used  for EFL teacher training in Greece. It was used to exemplify TBLT in the first class of Gymnasio (Junior High School) in Greece during an open class supervised by the EFL School Advisor and observed by EFL teachers. It has been trialled and evaluated successfully in different teaching contexts in Greece It is based on Willis’ quote “Use your text-books flexibly:  ‘taskify’ them” (Willis 2006).   It was designed  to develop language competences using ICT tools as well as social competences by encouraging students to appreciate the value of recycling.
  • Impact that it is expected to have on the teaching practices and attitudes:

    There are lots of user friendly online tools which teachers can easily adopt and incorporate in their teaching situations.

    Teachers familiarize themselves with the use of TBLT methodology.
  • Reasons why this task travels well:

    It uses online tools which motivate and appeal to learners. Moreover, recycling is a topic discussed in most EFL curricula, so it would be easily adopted by teachers.
  • Rationale and/or theoretical underpinnings of the task: The lesson is organised in the 3 cycles (pre-task, task, language focus) based on Willis& Willis view of task based learning and teaching.
  • Preferencial target age group(s): Young learners and high school students
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