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Gross out quiz?

Level: YL Time: 60min

If for some reason you haven’t used National Geographic materials so far, it’s a huge mistake!!! The NG team have done such a great job creating the games and quizzes.

Last week I picked the Gross out quiz for a group of 4th grade boys. They had sooo much fun and learned sooo much. Not just English vocabulary, though.

It was a full blown CLIL lesson. Social studies, Biology, Health all in a short 11 questions quiz.

After the class we created a Quizlet with vocabulary that they found interesting/worth remembering. The finale was a writing activity titled: ‘Which s grosser?’

Every person in the classroom was supposed to come up with an impossible choice of gross stuff to choose from. Some of the most memorable ideas from the kids?

Which is grosser?

Eating moldy cream cheese or eating hot dog with maggots?

Smelling your dad’s sweaty T-shirt or smelling your mom’s poop?

It was a blast!!! Thank you National Geographic!

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/quizzes/gross-out-quiz-whiz/

https://quizlet.com/563252592/national-geographic-gross-out-flash-cards/

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The World in 2021 Calendar

Level: B1 and up Time: 30-45 min

    ELT Teacher Alert!

    This is such a cool idea for the first lesson in the New Year!!!!

    Purchase The World in 2021 edition of The Economist. It’s filled with articles that your students will love.

    My personal favorite is the Calendar with The Economist selection of events around the world. From 63rd Grammy Awards and electric SUV race in Senegal, solar and lunar eclipse, all the way to celebration of 30th anniversary of fall of Soviet Union.

    Let your students read the calendar and have a after-reading discussion. Let ss share their opinions on the event that they think is most surprising, interesting, scary, exciting etc.

    After that invite ss to write a similar calendar for themselves. Skiing trip in February? Birthay party in March? First barbecue in May? Nothing is certain this year and it makes this writing activity even more fun.

    Also… Collect ss’s calendars and read them together at the end of the school year to see how many things actually happened. You never know with the Corona Virus still aroud.

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