A1 Movers / A2 Flyers Integrated Skills - City and Countryside
Description
This lesson plan has been designed to help students prepare for A1 Movers and A2 Flyers by practising
listening, writing and vocabulary building. This lesson plan can be delivered face to face or online. The
‘online options’ column gives teachers ideas how the stages could be adapted for teaching online. You
can use the lesson plan as a starting point and create your own PowerPoint slides to support the lesson.
If you are teaching with an online platform, use the functionality that you have available to you.
Students look at a picture, listen to the teacher describe the picture and they say if the information is
true or false. They build vocabulary on things that can be seen in a city or in the countryside before
they write a short description of the picture themselves.
Time required: 45 minutes (can be extended or shortened as required)
Materials Prepared presentation/PowerPoint slides with picture.
required:
Green and red cards for students to use at home.
Student handout with word search grid from Flippity.net.
Aims: To listen for true or false information about a scene
To build vocabulary on the topic (city and countryside)
To promote writing at sentence level
Procedure
Lesson Stages Online options
Welcome students – ask them say hello to confirm they can see and hear you. Check that students know
how to mute their
microphone to minimise
background noise.
Warm up – whole class activity If you are using Zoom,
Teams, Skype or similar,
Materials: Students will need:
share your screen and
• a piece of green paper or card for TRUE. show the class the picture.
• a piece of red paper or card for FALSE. Students show their cards
to the camera.
(Students can colour pieces of paper red or green if they do not have If you have no camera
coloured card) function students can write
YES or NO into the chat
Show students the picture below. Tell students they are going to listen to you as
box.
you read sentences about the picture to them. If the sentence is correct they hold
their GREEN card and if it is false, they will show their RED card to the camera.
(Variation: students can make a TICK and CROSS signs to use and hold up to the
1
camera).
Teacher reads out:
1. There are three planes. (F)
2. The taxi is yellow. (F)
3. Four people are waiting at the bus stop. (T)
4. There are three flags on the castle. (T)
5. The boy in the blue t-shirt has a heavy suitcase. (T)
(add other sentences as appropriate for age and level)
Checking If your platform has an
‘annotate’ function, elicit
Show the picture again. Re-read the sentences and ask students to type TRUE (T)
answers and ask students
or FALSE (F) as feedback to previous exercise.
to write T or F onto the
(Remember to challenge students to correct the F answers.) slide.
Tell students that in today’s lesson, they will practise words to describe a scene If you can safely monitor
and they will use these words to write about the picture. your students, put
students into breakout
Look at the picture. What can they see?
room to discuss in pairs
1. How many words do they know? Write the words that you know in your before sharing their
notebook. answers.
2. Look at your words and decide which are verbs, adjectives and nouns
Feedback Students can either:
Elicit answers from the class. Type their answers into the
chat box.
Discuss whether they think their words are verbs, adjectives or nouns.
OR
If there is an option to
speak aloud, they can put
up their hand and give
their answer.
Word Search – in pairs (A1 Movers) / individually (A2 Flyers). If your platform has
breakout rooms, students
Option 1: Use the Word Search grid and key supplied as a handout, (see below).
can be put into pairs to
You can:
discuss before sharing
EITHER Ask students if they can find as many words as they can in the time limit their answers.
you set.
OR: Check the words in the grid and decide how many words you think your
learners will know and ask them to find them in the time limit you set.
Option 2: Follow the link to Flippity (click on the word to go to the website) and
create your own Word Search. This means you can input the words your students
will know and be able to find.
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Word Search
NB Flippity word searches are designed to be printed, not played
online. You can click on the arrow and the grid letters will re-jumble
themselves, so there are many variations of the grid and therefore
no definitive KEY. Just make sure the grid you print out for students
matches its key.
Feedback Students can type answers
Elicit answers from students. in the chat box or speak up
if your platform allows you
Final check to hear students.
Highlight the words in the grid and show students the corrected grid of the version
If the platform allows,
you used.
share the screen and show
the corrected version of
Extra challenge: which words are about the city and which are about the
the Word Search you
countryside?
used.
Writing – individual Students complete the task
on their worksheet.
Teacher provides a model, and writes example sentences about the picture from
the warmer and sets the task:
A1 Movers: write TWO sentences about the picture. Students could write their
sentences by hand and
A2 Flyers: write THREE to FOUR sentences about the picture.
take a photo of it to upload
Elicit from students how they can extend their sentences by adding because, so, and share.
and. Challenge the A2 students to add these simple linking words.
Extension
Teachers could end the lesson here and mark students’ work after the class.
OR students could read out their sentences to encourage listening: ask the other
students to give a thumbs up when they hear a word they learned in the class
warm-up or word search.
Homework/Further extension
Tell students to find a picture at home – it could be from a book, a magazine, a
postcard, a photograph or anything they have at home. Students must write 5
sentences about the picture – some should be True and some should be False. In
the next lesson, students can swap their pictures and sentences with other
students who must decide which sentences are True and which are not.
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Student worksheet
A city and countryside scene: What can you see?
Look at the picture. What can you see?
3. How many words do you know? Write down the words that you know.
4. Look at your words and decide which are verbs, adjectives and nouns.
verbs adjectives nouns
Example: walk happy train, taxi
4
Word Search
How many words can you find?
Hint: There are 22 words.
Source: Flippity (2017) Word Search
5
Writing
Write two sentences about the picture.
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________________________________________
Add more sentences if you can:
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
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ANSWER KEY
There are three planes. F
1. The taxi is yellow. F
2. Four people are waiting at the bus stop. T
3. There are three flags on the castle. T
4. The boy in the blue t-shirt has a heavy suitcase. T
Word search – possible answers
walk wave worried countryside country side cross
worried castle happy rucksack sack forest use
building air bridge fast cave museum port
build way
Reference and link
Flippity (2017) Word Search
https://www.flippity.net/ws.asp?k=1utWvMTRpmESiL2GSaCIOd4A2ckKdLW8OywgLfQrRBpQ
