Activity 1: Before reading the text, look at the image and answer:
a. What job do you think this person has? Why?
b. Would you like to be a spy? Why? Why not?
c. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living as a spy?
d. What do you think his mission is about?
e. Read the title of the text and the quote, where is the text taken from?
Activity 2:  You are going to watch the trailer of the movie "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker". TRAILER
A: Before watching, think about the following questions in pairs:
a. Do you like reading or watching adventure novels?
b. Have you ever done any martial arts or extreme sports?
c. Do you think it's ethical to use sodium pentathol to control someone's actions?
d. What do you think are the qualities that make a person a lethal weapon?
B: While watching, try to answer these questions:
a. What kind of training did Ian Ryder prepare the agents for?
b. Who was sent to investigate Darrius Sayle and his Stonebraker projects?
c. What is Stormbreaker?
d. What happened to Alex's uncle?
e. What is Alex Ryder's role in the operation?
C: After watching, answer in groups:
a. How do you think you can relate the trailer of this movie with the text you are going to read?

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2. Narration of Activities: Encourage students to narrate what is happening in the picture. For example, "People are entering the cinema" or "The bookstore is next to the sports centre."
3. Preference Debate Ask the students about their personal preferences. Which building would you like to visit? Why?
4. Storytelling: Request that the students create a story that takes place on this street. They should incorporate at least two of the buildings into their story.

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Student: Espindola, Ariel. 

Book: 21st Century Communication.

This activity was presented to students in the 7th grade (B1 Level).

In this textbook, the authors present the beginning of the unit with a THINK AND DISCUSS activity that invites students to relate the unit’s title not only with an image but also with a caption about Jadav’s story.

This activity is a warm-up, whose principal aim is for the students to start talking about the topic being developed in the next listening comprehension activity.

Student: Espindola, Ariel. 

Book: 21st Century Communication.

For this segment, I chose an infographic taken from the same previous book, but this time it is presented as an AFTER YOU LISTEN activity, not as a warm-up.

In this activity, students are expected to read and interpret the information shown in the graph, as well as answer the questions orally, relating what they see to what they have learned in the listening activity.

Student’s age: 14 years old on average 

Objective: presentation of new vocabulary: clothes and accessories and developing writing skills. 

Activities: 

a- Teacher will pin fabric signs on students’ backs with the vocabulary on the crossword. 

b- Teacher will focus students’ attention on the book page and will elicit from students the topic they will learn, the pictures they can see around the crossword and the numbers on the crossword so that students know the words they will have to complete on each row; there will be some kind of matching between the numbers/rows and the pictures they see around. 

c- Teacher will play some background music to facilitate students’ interaction and will ask students to stand up and complete the crossword with the help of their classmates who have the missing words on their backs. 

d- When students finish completing the crossword, teacher will check correct spelling of the new vocabulary on the whiteboard and there will be choral and individual repetition of the new words. 

e- Students will receive a piece of colored paper and will write a miniparagraph with the beginning: Today I’ve got……. to describe the clothes and accessories they are wearing. 

Student’s age: 14 years old on average

Objective: Developing reading and writing skills and also integration of grammar and vocabulary topics learnt previously, i.e. have got and physical description.

Activities:

a- Teacher will stick the 24 photos of people faces around the hall outside the classroom.

b- Teacher will focus student’s attention on the title and the faces around the page for students to talk a bit and retrieve the topic of physical description previously learnt.

c- There will be first silent reading of the miniparagraphs and students will have to circle or underline the vocabulary connected to physical description. Teacher will show students what they are expected to do on the first box as an example and then they will have 10 minutes to do the same with the rest of the boxes. Students can work together with their classmate sitting next to them.

d- There will be aloud reading of the boxes and checking of the previous activity. There will be checking of students’ vocabulary understanding.

e- With the English booklet or photocopy and a pencil in hand, students will go to the hall to complete the white box next to the miniparagraphs with the name of the matching person. At this stage, students can help each other and will also need teacher’s assistance.

f- When students finish the activity, there will be group checking in the classroom and teacher will write the correct answers on the whiteboard.

g- Students will be asked to choose one of the twelve people of the activity and add two more sentences to that description and draw the face of that chosen person with the old and new information.  Using their cellphones, students will photograph the photo on the hall and their picture and see and talk about the differences.

AGE: 13/14 years old

COURSE BOOK: ON THE PULSE 1 

OBJECTIVE: Students make and explains a poster about their weekly actvity

WARM- UP ACTIVITY: Revision time: Teacher writes SCHOOL SUBJECTS on the board. She encourages Sts to mention them one by one aloud. The teacher writes them on the board. 
MAIN ACTIVITY: Ask Students to look at the picture and guess what it is. she asks questions about the pictures and the words in bold. 

Sts pay very much attention to the pictures and the rest of the information the noticeboard is showing. They answer some questions about it to practice PRESENT SIMPLE QUESTIONS

What day is the choir practice on?

Where is the art club class?

Which activity can you do on Fridays?

 what time do you practice football? 

AFTER ACTIVITY: 

STudents are asked to think about the activities the do/practice after school. Each student choose one activity and make a note about it. they should include Title, day of the week, time and a picture. In groups, they make  a noticeboard in a cardboard with all the activities. 

This activity gives Sts the chance to understand, interpret and develop their own conclussions about the visual elements. working in groups can be useful as sts generate multiple interpretations of the same image and they construct meaningful content. 

AGE: 12/13 YEARS OLD

COURSEBOOK: ON THE PULSE STARTER. (Macmillan Education)

OBJECTIVE: STUDENTS DRAW AND DESCRIBE THEIR OWN INSTAGRAM PROFILE. 

 

WARM UP ACTIVITY: The Teacher writes  social websites on the whiteboard. E.g: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TIK TOK, TWITTER, ETC. 

She asks student to describe each of them. Do they have a profile in any of them? 
After that, she shows the picture from the book. They recognize the social media it comes from. 

MAIN ACTIVITY: Sts answer some questions about the picture. What is the name of the social website? What is the name of the girl? Does she have Friends? How many followers does she have? Who is Julia? etc.

They underlined words they dont know and read each description aloud. The idea is to focus sts´attention to specific strutures such as: THESE ARE/ THIS IS…. and personal information. 

 AFTER ACTIVITY: Students draw their own instragram profile. It doesnt matter if they have it in real life. They divide it into four parts to describe a friend, a family member, a pet and a favourite place. Besides, they write their own personal introduction too. They use some highlighted phrases to complete it. After that, they present it to their classmates orally. 

This activity enables sts to communicate their preferences and personal information through images, in this case through the well-known instagram profile. The teacher works with previous knowledge (social media) too.

Activity 1:
Students will have to complete the rainbow graph present in the image with the following words: hot, warm, mild, cool and cold. They will have to match each of the words with the corresponding colour according to the temperature that represents. 
This activity works as a vocabulary review, students will solve it just to make sure they have understood what temperatures the colours represent. 

Activity 2:

Students will play with a world-map. The map will be placed on the floor (or on a desk) and they will throw a paper ball twice. They will have to look at the temperature map and compare both countries saying which one is colder, milder, warmer, etc. 

Activity 2: Write down on the blackboard the question and the answers “Have you got…?” Yes, I have / No, I haven’t. Ask students about their their favourite things. “What’s your favourite thing?” “What colour is it / are they?” “Is it / Are they new / old?”
Activity 3: Ask students to draw a chart and to choose 4 different things to ask their classmates about and two colums (one for yes, an another one for no). They have to go around the classroom, ask them if they have or haven’t got those things and they have to complete the chart. 

Activity 4: On the blackboard introduce the structure "he / she has got / hasn’t got" and ask students to talk about what their classmates have or haven’t got.

ST’s age: 15-16

Objective: To encourage students to share their personal experiences regarding holidays and travel. To describe past activities and experiences.

Activity 1: Ask students to look at the pictures and say what things they can see. Elicit new vocabulary from the students. Make a spider web on the blackboard to classify key words that can later be used by students. For example, means of transport, types of activities, places to go, etc. 

Activity 2: Ask students about their last holiday: what they did during their holidays, if they went somewhere, how they went there, where they stayed or who they went with. 

Activity 3: Discuss about their experiences: “Have you ever …?”

Sports. Present tense. Like-don’t like

Course: 1st year

Age: 12-13

Objective: To introduce vocabulary about sports and practice -ing forms

Pre-activity: The teacher will ask the students about the pictures they see like:

What do you see? What are the pictures about? What are they doing? Do you recognize the sport of picture 1? Do you like it or not?

Activity N°1: Activity suggested by the book. Which sports in the box are in the photos?

Activity N°2: Mark with a tick or cross if you like the sport or not. Then make sentences about each sport and say if you like it or not. Ex: I like playing football.

Activity N°3: Then in pairs, ask and answer questions to your partner. Ex: “Do you like skiing?”

Fast food facts. Past tense

Course: 1st year

Age: 12-13

Objective: To introduce vocabulary about appearance and practice have got/is

Pre-activity: The teacher will ask the students about the pictures they see. 

-What can you see? What else? What do you think the words are about?

Activity N°1: In pairs, students will discuss the meaning of the words. Then, they will decide which words goes with each character. 

Activity N°2: Students have to match the descriptions given for each character and they have to identify which ‘s means 'has' and which means 'is'. 

For example: She’s tall and slim. She’s got black hair and brown eyes.

Activity 2

Course: 1st year

Students´age: 12-13

Objective of the activity: After learning vocabulary about furniture and parts of the house they are going to work in pairs.

Activity: 

Students have to choose one room of the house without telling the partner.

They are going to ask and answer questions about furniture to guess the room using Are there/Is there.  

If they guess they get a point. They will carry out this dynamic in turns changing the rooms. 

Course: 2nd year

Students´age: 13-14 

Objective of the activity: To be able to talk about action verbs and show what they can or can't do. 

Activity: 

They will carry out this dynamic in turns.