Thursday, October 18, 2012

Fake Pilot

This story about Andrea Sirlo was kind of a hit today.
I told it by showing the pictures and asking the following questions:

Slide 1:
  1. Where are we?
  2. What country is Turin in?
  3. Have you been to Turin?
  4. Where in Turin are we now?
  5. Have you been to Turin?
  6. Why did you go to Turin?
  7. How did you get to Turin?
  8. Are we at the Turin airport?
  9. Who works at airports?
Have you been to an airport?
Slide 2:
  1. Where do we want to go?
  2. How should we travel to x?
  3. Have you ever x'ed before?
  4. Shall we fly to Turin?
  5. Who flies planes?
  6. Do you want to fly a plane?
  7. How do you like to travel?
  8. Is it better to drive or fly to Munich?
  9. Is it safe to fly?
Slide 3:
  1. What is this card?
  2. When do you need an ID card?
  3. Who is this person?
  4. Do you trust him?
  5. What does he want to do?
  6. Do you have an ID card?
  7. Why do you need an ID card?
Slide 4:
  1. What is this?
  2. Where is the airplane?
  3. Who is in the airplane?
  4. Have you been in an airplane?
  5. Where is this plane going?
  6. Who is the pilot?
  7. Do you want to fly a plane?
Slide 5:
  1. What is this a picture of?
  2. Where are the windows?
  3. Is it a car?
  4. ...a truck?
  5. ...a plane?
  6. Do you want to fly a plane?
  7. Who is in the circle?
Slide 6:

I didn't finish writing these up...

You might ask, "what was the learning goal of this lesson...well, I want my students to have a chance to talk, also I want them to use the article correctly, so this is the way we practice.

No comments:

Post a Comment