Through the goosechase app, students will be able to work on the vocabulary of clothes by completing several tasks involving a variety of multimodal outputs, such as taking pictures, writing a description and matching pictures to words.
It is motivating and enganging, forcing students to move around to complete the tasks.
Authors: Judith Barbaro, Alba Barranco, Paula Breslau & Natàlia Galán
The location of the activity is in the class, even though we give students the opportunity to find their answers out of the class.
The target age is 9 to 10 years old (4th grade).
Following the CEFR reference, the activity's target language level is destined for an A2 level.
Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge related to clothes.
Students will be able to interact with other students to complete activities.
Students will be able to put into practice the respect of people's privacy by asking permission to take pictures of strangers' clothes.
Written reception:
Overall reading comprehension
Can understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
Spoken production:
Overall spoken production:
Can interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair. Can ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
They will have to open the goosechase app. In groups and with one tablet per group (in our class we will divide it in pairs), they will join the link, and start the experience. Explain that in the tasks they might have to interact with strangers and/or ask to take a picture of their clothes. It is super important that they respect their rights to privacy and ask for permission to take their picture.
For completing the activity you will need to enter the gooschase app and join with the code: EPQ79M.
Equipment: we will need one phone/tablet per group. In doing so, we are promoting teamwork, as we would tell the students that each person of the group has to type the answer of at least one of the posed questions.
Task description:
Pre-task: they will have to open the goosechase app. In groups and with one tablet per group (in our class we will divide it in pairs), they will join the link, and start the experience. Explain that in the tasks they might have to interact with strangers and/or ask to take a picture of their clothes. It is super important that they respect their rights to privacy and ask for permission to take their picture.
During the task: the task will consist of following the instructions and hints to complete the scavenger hunt. The topic we will work on will be about clothes, thus they will have to engage in tasks related to the vocabulary.
You have 3 minutes to complete this task. You must find someone and take 3 separate pictures of a white top/t-shirt, jeans, and a black jumper.
You have 1 minute to do this task: match the clothes with its written name.
You have 3 minutes to upload a picture of one of the members of your group and make a detailed description of what they are wearing.
Post-task: Catwalk, where they have to describe what their peers are wearing.