| Main aim |
to calm down "hyper" kids |
| Level |
upper-intermediate/advanced young learners |
| Lesson aim |
to practise suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing |
| Activity |
a ranking game or race |
| Topic |
Travel/survival |
Activity 1: Sinking ship
1 Begin drawing a picture of a boat that is starting to sink with a lifeboat next to
it. As you draw, get your students to guess what it is. Once you have finished it
and they have established what it is, put a list of objects on the board, away from
the picture:
- a compass
- a cooking stove
-
a fishing line
- hooks
- matches
- a torch
-
flares
- o a r s
- blankets
- warm jackets
2 Put your students into groups of 3 or 4 and tell them they are on the sinking
ship, miles from land. They may take 5 things from the sinking ship to help them
survive, but they have to hurry because time is running out. Ask the groups to
discuss the choices and tell them they must reach an agreement before the boat
sinks. Meanwhile, you should change the 'water line' on your picture every couple
of minutes until the boat has sunk completely - this makes the activity more
exciting.
3 For feedback, invite each group to tell the rest of the class which things they
decided to take and why. This often leads to discussion between the groups if they
chose different items.
Activity 2: Visualisation
1 Sit in front of the class and in a calm voice ask your students to relax, close their
eyes, stretch their legs and go 'floppy'. (My group immediately quietened down
when given this opportunity.)
2 Tell your students you are going to describe a picture. (You can link this to any
topic that you have been looking at in class - a desert island, a town, a house, a person, an animal.) Tell the class to listen carefully and remember as much detail
as possible. Give the description two or three times
3 Hand out paper and coloured pencils/pens for the students to draw what they remember of your description. Silence reigns once again (albeit briefly).
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