U8 Interactive Display: Out and About
in London
Suggested use: after Lesson 4 (but can be
used after any lesson in the unit, too)
Time: 20–30 minutes
The children will:
• Learn about things to see and do in London.
• Draw and write about a vacation they took.
Warm Up: before using the slideshow
• Tell the children that the slideshow is about a
vacation in London. Ask if anyone has been there.
Elicit any information that the children might
know about London.
Procedure: using the slideshow
• Play Slides 1 and 2, and then pause the slideshow.
Ask the children if they know what Big Ben is.
Listen to ideas, then play Slide 3 and tell them, or
confirm that it is the name of a famous London
clock tower that has a very loud bell (although
technically it is the name of the bell itself).
• Ask the children to tell you some ways of getting
around London. Then play Slides 4 and 5. Ask them
if they have heard of the Underground and if they
have ever traveled on an open-top bus.
• Play Slide 6. Ask the children if they have eaten fish
and chips and, if so, if they liked it. If they haven’t
tried it, ask them if they think they would like it.
Elicit what the London Eye is (a big wheel that you
can travel on). Then play Slides 7–11. Pause at Slide
11. Ask the children what Buckingham Palace is
(the Queen’s London home) and what they think
the Queen’s Guard does (they protect the Queen).
• Play Slides 12–13.
• Complete Interactivities 1–5.
Level
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Teacher Notes
Round Up: after using the slideshow
• Write the following titles on the board: Big Ben,
London Underground, Buckingham Palace, pigeon,
Natural History Museum, cab, fish and chips. Ask
for seven volunteers and assign each of them a
title. Each child writes their title on a piece of
paper as a sign.
• Have children with a sign spread themselves out
around the classroom, moving chairs and tables
out of the way if necessary. Children who don’t
have signs should pretend they are visiting London.
• Give the children a prompt and have them run
to the correct sign. For example, say Go to the
place where you can see dinosaurs! and have the
children run to the Natural History Museum. Or,
It has a big clock (Big Ben); The Queen lives there
(Buckingham Palace); I want to go home (cab);
I’m hungry (fish and chips); Chase these animals!
(pigeons).
• If you don’t have many students, you could play
this as a knockout game where the last person to
run to the correct sign is out, although be careful
that the children don’t get too boisterous.
• Tell the children to make a map or draw a picture
showing somewhere they have been on vacation.
Ask them to label the map or picture with the
places they visited and the things they did. They
can then bring their map or picture to class to
share with the other children.