Summer Around the World

Scenariusz “Lato w Mieście” Grades 4-6

Length of lesson: 60 minutes

Supplies:
• Countries flashcards (a4ached)

• Ac7vi7es flashcards (a4ached)

• Where in the world? Presenta7on/PDF (a4ached)

• Song (pre-teaching): h4ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButjzoV-X2A

• Our Country worksheet (a4ached)

• Crayons/markers

Vocabulary:

• Poland
• Bicycling
• Canada
• Camping
• Ireland
• Hiking
• Iceland
• Swimming
• Australia
• Barbecuing
• Japan
• Waterskiing
• France
• Picnicking
• Mexico
• Eating ice cream
• China
• Boating
• Turkey
• Sunbathing
• Greece
• Austria

Lesson Plan:

Welcome and get to know you 5 minutes

Pre-teaching: Countries and ac7vi7es 5 minutes
Vocabulary introduc7on: Countries 10 minutes
Vocabulary introduc7on: Summer ac7vi7es 10 minutes
Vocabulary prac7ce: Where in the world? 10 minutes
Project: Our country 15 minutes
Wrap up and goodbye 5 minutes
Welcome
Welcome the students and play oner of the games below to get to know them.

Option A: Give each student a piece of recycled paper and ask the students to write their
name and five things about themselves on the paper, e.g. their age, hobbies, etc.

If you want to give the students more direction, write a short introductory text on the board
for them to copy onto the paper and complete with their own information.

Next, divide the students into two teams and have the teams stand facing each other at op-
posite sides of the classroom.

Tell the students to crumple their paper into a snowball. Explain that the two teams are go-
ing to have a snowball fight. When you say 'go', the snowball fight commences.

When you shout 'stop', anyone holding a snowball must open up the paper and find the
person whose name is written inside.

The student then introduces the person to the class using the information written on the pa-
per in the third-person, e.g. 'His name is Joshua. He is 11 years old', etc.

The two teams continue the snowball fight until everyone has been introduced to the class.

Option B: Arrange the students into two teams and sit each team in a circle. Tell the teams
that they are going to race each other to say everyone's name in their team.

Give the first student in each team a ball. The first student begins by saying their name, e.g.
'I'm Ryan'. The first student then passes the ball to the second student.

The second student repeats the first student's name and then says their own name, e.g.
'He's Ryan, and I'm Kate'. The second student passes the ball to the next student. The next
student continues, e.g. 'He's Ryan. She's Kate, and I'm Ben'. The game continues until all
the names have been said.

If a student forgets the name of a teammate, the team starts over from the first student.

The first team to finish wins the round and scores a point. Then, start with a different stu-
dent and repeat the game with other personal information, e.g. age, height, etc. The team
with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Pre-teaching: Countries and activities

Before going into the vocabulary, tell your students you are going to play a song and you would
like them to listen and guess what they will be learning about today:

h4ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButjzoV-X2A
As an extension and to add a challenging component, once the song is finished you can
have students work with a partner and write down any familiar words/expressions that they
heard and check to see which team had the most written down.

Check if the students have guessed todays topic, which is Summer Around the World.

Vocabulary Introduction - Countries

Next, tell the students that you are going to learn the name of some countries in English, but fist
check to see which they already know. On the board, write out each le4er of the alphabet and have
students work in small groups to brainstorm a country for each le4er (in English). Set a 7mer for 3
minutes and then take up all ideas together.

Next, show the Countries Flashcards and teach the vocabulary by saying the countries and hav-
ing students repeat them. Once students have a hand of the vocabulary, play one of the following
games:

Grab it: Divide the class into two teams. Have each team line up at the back of the room. Make sure
that the students have a clear runway to the board. Call out a word from one of the flashcards.

One student from each team runs to the board. The two students then race to grab the correspond-
ing flashcard and repeat the word. You could also call out a word and have the two students race to
grab the opposite flashcard.

To make the game more challenging, you can describe the country and have students race to choose
the correct flashcard based on that descripCon. You could also ask a quesCon and have the two stu-
dents race to find the corresponding flashcard to answer. For all versions of the game, the first stu-
dent to grab the correct flashcard and respond appropriately keeps the card for their team.

Then, repeat the game with two more students and so on.
The team with the most flashcards at the end of the game wins.

Whisperer: Divide the students into two teams. Have each team sit in a line facing the board. The
first student in each line should be near the board and have a marker to write with ready. Go to the
back of the class and show a flag flashcard to the two last students standing in the line (one from
each team).

The student at the back of each line whispers the country corresponding to the flag to the student in
front of them. The next student then whispers it to the student in front of them and so on, unCl the
word has travelled all the way to the front. The student at the front of each line then writes the cor-
rect word on the whiteboard.

The first team to write the correct sentence scores a point. The student at the front of each line then
moves to the back and everyone else moves up one place. The game is then repeated with a new
flashcard and so on.

Describe it: Have the students work in small groups. One student from each group comes up to you
and you show them all the same country flashcard. The students then race back to their teams and
describe the country for their teammates to guess. The team that guesses first, wins a point for their
team. ConCnue unCl all students have had a chance to describe.

Vocabulary Introduction - Activities

Ask your students what kind of summer ac7vi7es they think are popular in the countries they have
just learned? Take up all ideas on the board.

Then, using the Activities Flashcards teach the vocabulary by having students first repeat a\er
you, and then mime the ac7ons. Once students have a hand of the vocabulary, play one or two the
following games:

Charades: Divide the students into two teams. A player from each team comes to the front
of the class and is given an action to mime. The players then mime the word to their group.
The first team to guess correctly a point. The team with the most points at the end of the
game wins.

Freeze: Choose one student to be it. The student then leaves the room or just looks away
from the remaining students. Show the class an activity word to mime. The students mime
the activity until you say freeze. The students must stop in their spots as the It student looks
back and guesses what activity everyone was miming. Continue until all students have had
a chance at being It.

Hot seat: Divide the students into two teams (A and B). Place two chairs at the front of the
class facing away from the board. Choose one player from each team to come and sit on
one of the chairs. These chairs are the 'Hot Seats’. Show an activity word to the rest of the
students without the ones in the “Hot Seats” seeing.

The team members then describe the word to their player in the hot seat using definitions,
synonyms, etc. Team members can describe the word however they like, but they are not
allowed to say the word, variations of the word, the beginning letter or use their native lan-
guage. The two players listen to their teammates and try to guess the word.

The first player to say the word scores a point for their team and changes places with
someone else from their team. The other player has to stay in the hot seat until he or she is
first to answer correctly.

Vocabulary practice: Where in the world?

Tell the students that now you are going to look at the ways people spend their summer holidays in
different parts of the world. Put the students in small groups, and show the class the first picture in
the PDF presentation “Where in the world”? Have the groups discuss which country they
think this is, and place bets between 1-10 on how sure they are of their answer.

If a group chooses 10 and are correct, they win that amount of points. If they are incorrect they
loose that amount of points. Before going on to the next picture, ask your students if they would
like to spend the holidays in the given country, why or why not. What could they do there? What
would they eat/see/visit?

Con7nue with the rest of the PDG presenta7on pictures.

KEY:

1. Austria 2. Greece 3. Turkey 4. China 5. Mexico 6. France 7. Japan 8. Australia 9. Iceland 10. Ireland
11. Canada 12. Poland

Project work - Perfect Holiday

Now tell the students that they are going to create their own country for everyone else to visit.
Hand out the Our Country worksheet. Students will have to come up with informa7on about
their country as a tourist des7na7on, and say what kind of summer ac7vi7es can be done there.
Encourage students to use their imagina7ons. They can have a “Unicorn Country” where the ac7vi-
7es include unicorn riding and rainbow skiing, or “Robot Land” where students can hike through
computer mountains.

Once 7me is up, the groups take turns presen7ng their country and the class can vote of the best
one.

Wrap up and goodbye

Wrap up the lesson by asking students what they have learned today, what they enjoyed most and
how they are planning to spend their summer holidays. If you have some extra 7me, you can play
Make the most words (write a vocabulary item from today’s lesson on the board. In twos
or threes, students make as many new words from it as they can. Score teams a point per
word and award a bonus point for the longest) or play BINGO! (Show a list of vocabulary
words from today and ask students to choose 5 and write down them down on their notebook. Give
the defini7on of a random word from the list but don’t say the word itself. If students think they
have the word you defined, they 7ck it. The first student to 7ck all 5 words they had chosen shouts
BINGO and wins the game.

Say goodbye and wish students a great summer holiday :)