WHEN THE SPRING COMES, AND MY BLOOD HEATS UP, I WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO RAID AND FIGHT- Vikings (PATRICIA RUIZ)

PICTURE SOURCE: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/01/11/32BBC4D700000578-3518739-The_new_Viking_settlement_was_found_on_the_edge_of_Point_Rosee_i-a-28_1459505267293.jpg

Grade: Secondary students

Subject: Social Science

Objectives:

- To get familiar with vikings most famous explorers

- To encourage students to make predictions

- To improve students' oral skills (speaking and listening) as well as to foster students' writing skills

- To review past tenses (in an indirect way, grammar is not the main focus of the activities)

*By showing short sentences and the picture related to the story, it’s my intention to plant the story seeds,

First activity

Students will try to figure out the story line first individually. I I'll give students some words to make predictions about the story related to the picture..

Then, in pairs, they will share their ideas and write a quick story draft using the 5 Wh- and H questions prompts.

Second activity:

Story Bingo

The teacher will tell the made-up story from previous lessons.

To encourage students to actively listening, they will have the short sentences and pictures in a bingo form. As they hear those story elements, they will have to cross them out.

Third activity:

Listen to story a second time. Students will take notes of it.

Later on, they will retell it in pairs. Once both members have finished, they will compare their notes. They will check whether they have more or less the same story.

Fourth activity:

Students will create their own story using or not the some of the vocabulary elements included in the teacher’s story