Wordle for the Olympics.
Added: 23 May 2016
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Guide/notes
Worksheet on words associated with the Olympic games; places, equipment and people.
Excellent for enabling and encouraging students to keep up to date with current affairs, events and topics. Very good also for building on students imagination abilities for writing about event.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in real and imaginary situations to perform different social functions
- focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it
- initiate discussions, respond to the initiatives of others, and have practice in taking turns
Suggestions for use: Starter:Present the wordle image onto the board. Ask pupils to individually catorgise the words into places, people and equipment. Task 1: Using the wordle words, get pupils to discuss what the Olympics to their partners. Now challenge the pupils to discuss what the Olympics means to them without using any of the words in the wordle. Task 2: Form connecting sentences on the board using the new vocabulary about the Olympics.
