How is Blooket used?

Target Age Group: Young Learners - Primary School Students

CEFR Level: A2

Target CEFR Competencies

Reception

Oral Comprehension:

-Can understand enough to be able to meet the needs of a concrete type, provided people articulate clearly and slowly.

-Can understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment), provided people articulate clearly and slowly.

-Can generally identify the topic of discussion around them when it is conducted slowly and clearly.

Reading Comprehension:

-Can understand and extract the essential information from short, recorded passages dealing with

predictable everyday matters which are delivered slowly and clearly

-Can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high-frequency everyday or job-related language.

-Can understand short, simple texts containing the highest frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared international vocabulary items.

Production

Oral Production:

-Can give a simple description or presentation of people, living or working conditions, and daily routines. likes/dislikes, etc. as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list.

-Can describe everyday aspects of their environment, e.g. people, places, a job, or study experience.

-Can describe people, places, and possessions in simple terms.

Written Production: 

-Can describe everyday aspects of their environment e.g. people, places, a job, or study experience in linked sentences.

-Can create diary entries that describe activities (e.g. daily routine, outings, sports, hobbies), people, and places, using basic, concrete vocabulary and simple phrases and sentences with simple connectives like “and”, “but” and “because”.

Interaction

Oral Interaction:

-Can interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations, provided the other person helps if necessary. Can manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort; can ask and answer questions and exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations.

-Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters related to work and free time. Can handle very short social exchanges but are rarely able to understand enough to keep the conversation going of their own accord.

-Can ask for and provide personal information.

Contextualization

This lesson is designed for young learners aged 9. Their level of proficiency is A2.

Materials

Pictures, Videos, Listening track, Listening worksheet, PPT, Information gap role cards

Preparation

The teacher needs to prepare the materials above.

Warm-up

An extract from The Simpsons is going to be watched with the students. Before watching the video, the learners will be asked 'Watch the video and tell me which show this is!'. Then, to introduce the characters, students will also be shown pictures of the famous ones from the show.

While-activity: Listening

Students are going to listen to a dialogue between two kids who talk about the appearance and personality of the characters in The Simpsons. For the first listening, they will tell what the speakers are talking about. For the second listening, they will fill in the blanks for what they hear.

Mini-lecture

This part will cover some simple adjectives for personality and physical appearance by using the statements from the recording, along with visuals from The Simpsons show.

Post-activity: Information Gap 

This activity aims to enable students to practice the personality and appearance adjectives that have been covered as part of this lesson. In order to achieve this, students will be provided with information gap tables. These tables will include some information about the characters from The Simpsons. However, the information for character A will be missing in student B's table, and vice versa for student A. Therefore, in pairs, students will be asked to fill in the missing information in their table by asking questions to each other. 

Revision Game

Blooket game will be played in this session in order to revise the lesson content.

Homework

Students will be asked to prepare a poster by describing the appearance and personality of their favorite celebrity (e.g. cartoon character, singer, actor).