TOPIC 9

WHAT'S YOUR

OPINION

Explore the suggested activities according to English language skills and click on the pictures to try out the activity.

After a rippling act of kindness turns Juanita’s mishap-filled morning around, Juanita and Tim decide to set off a wave of kindness that wraps around the whole world. This episode also features the Hidden Sound game, Ask Arizona, and kids’ answers to the Big Question: Which person do you look up to?

SOURCE: HIGHLIGHTS KIDS

1. Worldwide Wave of Kindness - podcast

Skill(s): Listening / speaking

Suggested activity: Lesson development - produce

Adaptation technique: -

Implementation strategies:

Teacher plays the audio in the classroom.
Pupils listen to the audio attentively and ask teacher about words, which they do not understand.
Teacher leads the discussion with pupils about the kindness expressed in the video.
Then, teacher asks pupils to give opinion about the Big Question: Which person do you look up to?
Teacher asks pupils to explain why they look up to that particular person and share about what kindness did the person offered to them.

2. Superheroes

Skill(s): Speaking

Suggested activity: Lesson development - practice

Adaptation technique: -

Implementation strategies:

Teacher asks pupils to read the article and prepare a one-minute speech about superheroes.
Pupils have to choose a superhero they admire the most and talk about the superhero using the phrases provided in the textbook, page 116 as a guidance.

For thousands of years people have told stories about heroes. Heroes are strong, brave people who help others. Today we can read stories and watch films about superheroes. What is a superhero?

SOURCE: BRITISH COUNCIL

Do you know how to stop food waste? Practise your reading in English with this text about a school campaign.

SOURCE: BRITISH COUNCIL

3. Food Waste

Skill(s): Reading

Suggested activity: Lesson development - practice

Adaptation technique: -

Implementation strategies:

Teacher has pupils read the text about a school campaign of food waste.
Pupils read the text carefully and identify main points in the text.
Teacher leads the discussion with pupils about the text and asks them to share opinion regarding food waste issue.
After that, pupils answer comprehension questions provided to further test their understanding about the text.

4. Fast Food

Skill(s): Writing

Suggested activity: Lesson development - produce

Adaptation technique: Addition

Teacher adds extra questions as a prompt to help pupils generate opinion about fast food.

Implementation strategies:

Teacher displays the image of fast food in the classroom.
Pupils see the image and share opinions about fast food based on the questions stated below the image.
Then, teacher asks other questions to further provoke pupils' critical thinking and encourage them to share opinion about fast food.
By using the picture prompt and based on the discussion, teacher asks pupils to write an essay about the benefits and disadvantages of fast food with teacher's guidance.
Teacher helps and assists pupils to come up with topic sentences for their essay.

What do you think about fast food? Is it good or is it bad? Let's give opinion about this topic!

SOURCE: BRITISH COUNCIL

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