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    SUMMER SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

                                                                                                                                     Study
                      Themes            Learning Objectives                  Activities and Games for Learning Objectives
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                                                                    Question Race

                                                                    Divide the class into two groups as Group A and Group B and ask students to
                                                                    sit facing each other. Give five cards to each one. Tell the students that they
                                                                    will write five sentences each in any tense with objects and time markers and
                                                                    underline a part of the sentences to turn into questions. Remind them that
                                                                    they need to underline a different part for each sentence. When they finish
                                                                    writing  and underlying their  sentences,  tell  the students  to put their  cards
                                                                    faced down on a desk. Next, each member from Group A will go and pick up
                                                                    a card from one of the students from Group B, go back and form a question of
                                  1.  Students will be able to ask   the underlined part in a minute. Then it will be Group B’s turn to do the same
                                     Whquestions and talk about each   activity. In the end, give feedback to the whole class.
                                     other.                         Definitions Lists

                                  2.  Students will be able to define and   Choose a vocabulary topic (this can be vocabulary you have recently studied
                                     use the vocabulary items they have   or a topic you want to introduce). Tell students to write a list of ten words they
                                     learned.                       associate with this topic. To make the activity shorter, reduce the number of
                                                                    words. Pre-teach or revise structures for definitions, e.g. It’s a thing which /
                                  3.  Students will be able to understand   that ... You use it for ... You find this in ... It’s an animal / object / place ... It’s
                                     parts of a story and come up with   the opposite of ... etc. Tell students to look at their lists and give them a few
                                     the whole story by commenting on   minutes to think of how they can define these words. Now students work in
                                     parts together with their friends.  pairs (or groups of three) and define their words to the rest of the class. The
                         2                                          class must guess the word they are defining.
                     Words Tell                                                                                                     8 hours
                                  4.  Students will be able to write their   Order the Story
                     Something       own cartoons within the groups.
                                                                    Before  the  class,  find  a  cartoon  with  at  least  four  vignettes.  The  cartoon
                                  5.  Students will be able to make   can be with or without a dialogue. The more vignettes and more elements
                                     comments about moral values and   in the story, the more difficult the task is. Print the cartoon and cut up the
                                     norms in different cultures    vignettes. Put students into pairs and divide the vignettes equally between
                                                                    student A and student B. Give students time to think about how to describe
                                  6.  Students will be able to discuss   their pictures and ask for any vocabulary they need. Pre-teach any difficult
                                     manners in different cultures.  vocabulary that has not come up as well as phrases for talking about pictures
                                                                    and sequencing, e.g. In my picture there is ... I can see ... I think this is the first/
                                  7.  Students will be able to make   second last picture ... Then ... After that ... Tell students to work together to put
                                     comments on moods by looking at   the story in the correct order.
                                     flashcards.
                                                                    Write the Dialogue
                                                                    Wake a comic strip, cartoon or unusual image in which there are several
                                                                    people or characters. If there is dialogue or captions, blank it out. Display
                                                                    the comic strip / cartoon / image and elicit ideas from students about what is
                                                                    happening in it. Elicit answers for the following questions: Who are the people
                                                                    / characters? What are they doing? What happens next? What are they saying
                                                                    to each other? Put students in pairs or small groups. Tell them to work together
               11 th -12 th  Grades  18                             Students practice their dialogues and read their version out to the class.
                                                                    and write the dialogue and/or captions for the comic strip, cartoon or image.

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