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Learning Design for: Gamifying body parts in the EFL classroom

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Context

Topic: Body parts

Total learning time: 90

Number of students: 20

Description: Year 4 EFL learners recycle and learn new vocabulary items related to body parts through the use of games

Aims

The students identify parts of the body and use the relevant vocabulary

Outcomes

Knowledge: The students will enhance their knowledge on body parts.

Synthesis: The students will create word search games and a class display of a monster town.

 

Teaching-Learning activities

Getting acquainted with body parts in EFL

Read Watch Listen        7 minutes        1 student         Tutor is not available

The students watch a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaNiEku9Uk0) on body parts and verbs related to each part of the body. They take notes of vocabulary they are not familiar with for future use.

 

Practice                         10 minutes      2 students       Tutor is not available

Students practice body parts in pairs through the use of a three-level game: (http://www.funwithpuzzles.com/2014/04/body-parts-labeling.html)

 

Discuss                          5 minutes        4 students       Tutor is available

The students in groups discuss their scores and experience on playing the three-level game and talk over instances of difficulties they faced.

 

 

Gamifying body parts

Investigate                    10 minutes      2 students       Tutor is not available

The students familiarize themselves with and analyze word search games on body parts visiting a Teacher provided symbaloo link with a variety of relevant word search games (e.g. http://www.eslgamesplus.com/body-parts-interactive-word-search/)

 

Collaborate                   5 minutes        2 students       Tutor is available

The students collaborate to decide and agree on the choice of vocabulary they'll use in the word search game they will create.

 

Produce                         13 minutes      2 students       Tutor is available

The students produce their word search game (http://justwordsearch.com/create.html) which they embed in the class blog to be played by other students in future lessons and as homework pastime.

 

 

Extension

Produce                         10 minutes      1 student       Tutor is not available

The students are asked to create a monster town with characters they will make up. To do that, they individually visit http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/make-your-monster and finally print their creature.

 

Collaborate                   20 minutes      20 students     Tutor is available

The students describe their monsters and are asked to create a joint product of their monster town on a piece of carton which is being displayed on the classroom wall and the class blog.

 

 

Homework

Practice                         10 minutes      1 student       Tutor is not available

The students visit the class blog and try to search for the words in the games created in class. They can also play this unscramble game: http://www.spellingcity.com/unscramble-letters-to-form-words.html?listId=19020142