1m Activity - Flashcards & English-speaking countries - May, 23rd

Flashcards:

-In order to customize the classroom's walls, students will have to make flashcards using the vocabulary of moods and hobbies (as a review) and english-speaking countries with their flags (as a new class topic.)

1) Students need to discover first which English-speaking countries are represented by these flags:

 

-Provide extra information about each flag

2) Notions of culture:

Map of English-speaking countries: places in dark blue represent countries which speak English as a first language. Places in light-blue, countries which speak English as a second language or which English was a lot used in the past because of British colonization.

Important things to remember/vocabulary:

-There are 50 stars and 13 stripes on the American flag (50 for the number of states and 13 for first colonies of the U.S.A.)

-United Kingdom is made of 4 semi-independent regional identities: Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

-The Canadian flag represents a maple leaf as the emblem of the country, famous for his trees producing the famous maple syrup.

-Can students also suggest other things to add to the cultural content of the class?

                                    
3) Flashcards modelling:

                   

I usually feel:                  HAPPY!	I never feel: Sad!
My favorite thing in life is:          TRAVELLING!         To see the world!	I want  to visit:                   AUSTRALIA!            To see koalas!

4) Production:

-4 flashcards/students using these four categories/students need to draw and create/think about a usual and unsual mood of theirs, a hobby and an English-speaking country they woud like to visit and why.

Examples of flashcards (after the activitiy, on the classroom's walls);