Starter Conversation Cards - Olympic Games
Added: 23 May 2016
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Guide/notes
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Role Play
Encouraging students to discuss questions develops not only the pupils literacy skills but also their social skills. This link provides visual cards which can be laminated for use in the classroom.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- experiment with more elaborate vocabulary and sentence structure in order to extend and explore meaning
- focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it
- talk about and reflect on past and present experiences, and plan, predict, anticipate and speculate about future and imaginary experiences
Suggestions for use: Find out what your pupils know about the Olympic games in a fun walk-around discussion based activity. Use as a starter activity: Provide pupils with a laminated card. Allow time for pupils to walk around the classroom asking other pupils their question and listening to their answers. Once pupils ask their question and get an answer, pupils swap their cards and find a new pupil to ask their new question too. Then, put pupils into groups. Give each group a different but specific card to then discuss as a group. Pupils then given time to write three paragraphs as an answer to the group laminated card question.
