Actually it was the pupils’ idea to prepare a set of short sport activities which can be used in mini-breaks in the middle of the lesson or as a warming up at the beginning of the lesson. The pupils, split in groups, made a list of exercises they especially enjoyed, described the procedure and performed them so that they could be photographed. They wanted to show their warm-up during the festival of Foreign Languages regularly held in our school at the beginning of spring. Because of the lockdown they weren’t able to do it so we published the photographs in one online book.
It was the activity for the younger learners. We were dealing with the sports vocabulary and the question: ‚Can you …?’. When students learned sport disciplines by heart and they were able to use ‚Can you’ freely, I decided to split them into groups, each group drew one group of sports (street sports, water sports, team sports, etc) out of the hat and they made a set of questions about ability to do these sports. Next they went to interview their friends from other classes and older. Finally, they had to sum up all the positive answers and made posters with bar charts. It was quite a good combination of English, maths, getting familiar with other pupils, team work and designing. And it goes without saying that an impressive number of students could do the sports and probably they were quite good at them.
In Primary School nr 35 Gdańsk as part of one of the Erasmus + projects, I conducted lessons about sports. In both, I introduced the vocabulary of winter activities, working simultaneously with the applications Buncee (creating presentations), Quiver (augmented reality) and Flipgrid (recording short films).
In the third grade, we practiced the I like / I don’t like structure for selected winter sports:
students printed selected winter sports on printed sheets for reading the Quiver application (printout from the Quiver page)
we saw the created drawings in augmented reality with the Quiver application on the phone.
pupils in pairs practiced the constructions I like / I don’t like / Do you like?
In class zero I used Buncee presentations and we recorded a video on Flipgrid.
I prepared a presentation about winter activities. During the display in the lesson, the immersion reader application read the pronunciation of the words.
We repeated listening / reading / pronunciation several times.
I asked the children to choose and remember their favorite activity (What is your favorite winter activity?)
Children had the task to draw their favorite activity on a piece of paper.
The children presented / expressed their activity to 3 selected colleagues.
Sitting in a circle on the carpet (easier recording), after several attempts, I recorded children’s statements in the Flipgrid application. https://flipgrid.com/bd86d560
