Engage

Short description:

This lesson is designed to help young learners learn new vocabularies in everyday aspect and practice speaking using the vocabularies by utilizing ENGAGE VR. Engage is a platform designed for education professionals to elevate educational experiences by providing immersive environments and tools for collaboration (Engage, 2024). In this lesson, students will learn how to describe someone's appearance and use vocabulary related to clothing items. 

1. Author names: Jake, Bui; Ginting, Rita

2. Contextualization: 

• Target  Age: 5th grade students in Vietnam/Indonesia

• Target Language Level (based on CEFR): A2

• Location (indoors, outdoors, gym, classroom, etc.): Classroom

3. Lesson Aims based on CEFR: A2

• Can describe everyday aspects of his/her environment e.g. people, places, a job or study experience.

• Can give short, basic descriptions of events and activities. 

4. SWBATs:

• Students will be able to describe people’s appearance using basic adjectives and nouns.

• Students will be able to use vocabulary related to clothing items. 

5. Preparation

• Students need to download Engage VR on their own device and create an account with their email. 

• Students join Engage session created and shared by the teacher by using the given code

6. Materials

• Laptop

• Ipad

• Mobile phone

7. Brief Description Activity Steps

• Step 1: Divide the students into two groups.

• Step 2: The two groups need to find two vocabulary photos so that they could take notes and use them to find the missing girl. 

• Step 3: Each group must interact with every character in the session to gather as much information as possible about the missing girl. During this step, they should take notes on the characters they interact with so they can describe them later.

• Step 4: Once all the necessary information has been collected, group members should spread out to search for the missing girl. The activity concludes when the girl is found.

• Step 5: After the girl is found, each group member must describe one of their favorite characters, including their appearance.

8. PowerPoints used.