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Title of
Digital Scavenger Hunt (Online Zoom Lesson)
lesson 

By  Yuliia Ostrovska, Cherkasy, Ukraine

Student
High school students of the 11th grade, 16-17 years old, proficiency level: B1
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Class
6 students, 60 minutes
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By the end of the lesson  students will be able to:
- know how to participate in scavenger hunt activities;
- describe the photos that are connected to their life experience;
Lesson
- compare their local time, temperature and weather;
Objective 
- explain their choices;
- actively communicate in English using a wide range of vocabulary and grammar structures;
- invent and describe their own unusual holidays.
Target
Photo description language, holidays and travel vocabulary, Past and Present simple, Present
Language
Perfect, I Conditional
Structures 
Students will learn how to participate in scavenger hunt activities, they will learn about time
Target zone in different countries, how to work collaboratively with Google documents and upload
Content  photos, how to create short presentations using Power Point, Word or Paint

a laptop, Power Point Presentation,  editable Google document “Scavenger Hunt”, students’
Materials 
laptops or smart phones with the access to the Internet

Source 

Students will participate in a digital scavenger hunt online. As an introduction to the lesson the
teacher will demonstrate a short presentation about scavenger hunts, then students will do
Procedure 
different tasks that include discussions, sharing photos, ideas and travelling experience.

Task 1 (6 mins): The teacher introduces such an activity as scavenger hunt using Power Point
Presentation. Then students answer the following questions:
 
 Have you ever participated in a scavenger hunt?
 Do you know any games similar to this?
  Task 2 (4 mins): The teacher shares editable handout (Google document) “Digital Scavenger Hunt” and
explains the rules of the activity:

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 ● With other participants, complete the following tasks.
● Remember to use English! (And have fun, too!)
● Start by typing your names.
● Then, begin the tasks!
Task 3 (5 mins): Students have to discuss and choose 3 most important things they will put in
  their suitcase while getting ready for a trip, they need to explain their choice.

Task 4 (10 mins): Students have to share their current location, local time, temperature and
describe the weather filling in a graphic organizer.
1. Go to this map: World Map
2. Place one “pin” (the little square box) on the place of your current location.
3. Tell other participants a few words about it.
4. Fill in the chart to compare your local time.
Task 5 (15 mins): Students have to take a photo of the view from their window, share and
describe it.
1. Look out of the window of the room you are currently in.
2. Take a picture of the view and upload it.
3. Tell a few words about the view and the weather outside.

Task 6 (20 mins): Students have to answer the question why they like travelling, then they list
the countries or places within their country they have visited or would like to visit in the future
filling in the graphic organizer and share the photos.
1. Do you like travelling? Why?
2. How many countries have you visited so far? What are they?
3. Type your answers in this chart.
(* If you have never been abroad, just type the names of the cities in Ukraine you have been to
or the place you would like to visit some day in the future).
4. Share a photo of the country/place you visited last time, or the one you liked the most or the
one you’d like to visit in the future and explain why. Tell a few words about the photo.
For home assignment students will have to search the information online about unusual types
of holidays. After that they will have to invent their own unusual holiday and make a short
Assessment 
presentation of it for their classmates. (They can use Power Point, Word or Paint, adding a
short text with a brief description of the holiday and some pictures).

Criteria 

Interesting
The activity is interesting and engaging to students because it’s done in the form of a game and
and
involves communication and cooperation
engaging 
Relevant to
 It’s relevant to learners’ lives as they have to share photos and details of their own life
learners’
experience
lives 
Tailored to  The activity involves different learning styles such as interpersonal, verbal, logical, visual

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 different
learning
styles 
Empowers
critical
 Learners need to make choices and decisions supporting them with arguments which
thinking
promotes the usage of critical thinking and problem solving skills, also they need to use their
and
higher-order thinking skills while inventing an unusual holiday
problem
solving 
Promotes
 During the lesson the role of the teacher is just to be a facilitator.
learner
Students make their own choices, present their ideas, share their experience
autonomy