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    SUMMER SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

                      Themes            Learning Objectives                   Activities and Games for Learning Objectives           Study
                                                                                                                                      Time
                                                                    Who’s Telling the Truth?

                                                                    Have each student write three facts about themselves that nobody in the class
                                                                    knows on a piece of paper. Make sure each student includes their name on
                                                                    the top of the page. Collect the sheets of paper and bring three students to
                                                                    the front of the classroom. Read aloud one of the facts that is true for one of
                                                                    these three students. All the three students claim that the fact is theirs, and
                                                                    the class then proceeds to question them in an attempt to determine who is
                                                                    telling the truth and who is giving a false statement. Each student is allowed
                                                                    to ask one question to one of the three students. After a round of questioning,
                                                                    the students guess who is telling the truth.
                                  1.  Students will be able to ask and   Variations on the Game Taboo
                                     comment on the questions about
                                     their friends’ lives.          For variation 1, create a presentation with a noun on each slide. Have one
                                                                    student come to the front of the room and sit with their back to the presentation.
                                  2.  Students will be able to describe a   The rest of the students take turns describing the words on the slides, and the
                                     picture.                       student at the front has to guess them. For variation 2, separate the students
                                                                    into groups of four or five. Place a pile of cards with random nouns in the
                                  3.  Students will be able to make a   center of each group. Have students take turns describing a noun for their
                                     digital story about technology and   group members to guess. The group member who guesses correctly keeps
                                     the youth by co-operating with their   the card, so there’s competition to see who has the most cards at the end of
                                     friends.                       the game. Variation 3 is for advanced speakers. Separate the class into two
                         5                                          teams. Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition
                                  4.  Students will be able to express   to a list of words that they cannot use in their description. Each student should
                      Sharing                                                                                                       8 hours
                                     regrets, wishes and apologies   have two to three minutes to see how many words their teammates can guess.
                       Ideas         about their past and present   Descriptive Drawing Activity
                                     experiences.
                                                                    Pair up the students and give each student a picture, placing it face down so
                                  5.  Students will be able to narrate the   partners cannot see each other’s cards. They must describe the picture for
                                     events and experiences in the past.  their partner to draw.
                                                                    Creating Digital Stories
                                  6.  Students will be able to exchange
                                     ideas and feelings such as     Work in groups. Create a digital story about technology and youth. Use a
                                     surprise, happiness, interest, and   free application to create it.
                                     indifference about experiences.  Speaking Club
                                                                    Speaking Topics: What’s something I thought I couldn’t do but did
                                                                    anyway? / What does my inner critic tell me? Set it straight. / When do I
                                                                    feel most relaxed, happy, surprised, sad, etc.?
                                                                    Suggested Activities in Games and Activities Book 11:

                                                                    Theme 4
                                                                     •  Tell Me About Yourself (Activity 6, page 70)
                                                                     •  Jumbled Story (Activity 7, page 71)
               11 th -12 th  Grades  24                              •  As You Wish (Activity 1, page 89)
                                                                    Theme 5

                                                                     •  Life Has No Backspace! (Activity 7, page 92)

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