The colours of life

1 Watch the video again and answer the questions.

1 What did the note say? Underground silver tree.
2 Where did they dig?
3 How many holes did they dig?
¢ Why did they sit under the tree?
5 How did the sunshine help them?
6 Who pulled out the metal box?
7 What was in the box?
8 Where did they take it?
9 How much was it worth?
10 What did they do with it?

2 Give your friend some advice on how to use their money.

1 Where to live. 3 How to help their family. You should live in a big city.
2 What to buy. ¢ How to help other people.
You should give the
3 Look at the situations and decide what to do. wallet to a police officer.

1 You find a wallet with no name and telephone number, but some money in it.
2 You find a wallet with a name and telephone number, but no money in it.
3 You find two cinema tickets for a film you want to see. The film starts in one hour.
¢ You find a gold ring in your garden. It was buried in your garden for a long time.
5 You find an expensive watch on a bench in the park.

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¢ Create a treasure story. In your story you should include:
1 A boy and a girl. What are their names? Describe them.
2 A mysterious castle. Where is it? How and why do the children go there?
3 A treasure map. How do they find it? Describe it. What does it show?
¢ What kind of treasure is it? What problems do they have finding the treasure?
Where do they find it? What do they do with it? How does the story end?

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 Video activity teaching notes

The colours of life

Preparation Post-viewing tasks

Make copies of the worksheets and flashcards so that
each group of children has a set.
Pre-viewing tasks
Tell the class they are going to find out how the children
found more hidden treasure.
Divide the children into pairs. Give them the questions in
Activity 1 and ask them to read the questions and try to
guess the answers.
Now ask the children to use their answers to create the
next part of the story. Give them time to practise telling
the story.
Now have the children change pairs and tell their story to
their new partner. They should listen and see how similar
or different the two stories are.
While viewing tasks
Tell the children that they are going to watch a video of
the story without the sound. Tell them to watch and try to
answer the questions in Activity 1.
After the video, give the children time to compare their
answers and see how many of the questions they
can answer.
Now ask the children to watch the video again with the
sound and answer the rest of the questions.
1 Watch the video again and answer
the questions.
Answers:
1 What did the note say? (Underground silver tree.)
2 Where did they dig? (They dug in the garden, under
the trees.)
3 How many holes did they dig? (They dug lots of holes. –
It doesn’t say how many.)
¢ Why did they sit under the tree? (They sat under the tree
to think and rest.)
5 How did the sunshine help them? (The sunshine showed
them the silver tree.)
6 Who pulled out the metal box? (Mike.)
7 What was in the box? (A poem and a painting.)
8 Where did they take it? (They took it to an expert.)
9 How much was it worth? (It was very valuable. – They
didn’t say how much it was worth.)
10
What did they do with it? (They gave it to a museum.)
You can use all or any of these tasks after the children
have watched the video.
1 Advice for a friend
Divide the children into A and B pairs. Tell child A to
imagine that they have just become rich and they want
some advice on how to use the money. Tell child B to
give them some advice on the things in Activity 2.
Then ask the children to exchange roles and repeat
the activity. Ask the children if they got good advice.
2 Finding things
Divide the children into pairs and ask each pair to
choose one of the situations in Activity 3. Tell them to
decide together what they should do.
Give them a few minutes to discuss their ideas and
then ask them to choose a different situation.
Once they have decided what they should do for all of
the situations, have a class discussion about what the
children decided for each situation.
3 Create a treasure story
Divide the children into small groups and ask them to
do Activity ¢.
Ask them to draw pictures to create a short treasure
story. Ask them to think about who they meet
in the story. Then ask them to make notes about each
picture.
Once they have completed this, ask them to practise
telling the story together in their groups.
Have a few volunteers tell their story to the class,
or have the children write the story for homework.

If they find this difficult, play the video again and pause
where the children can find the answers.
Ask the children if they were surprised by the end of
the story. Ask them if they would give the picture to a
museum.

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