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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Detective Academy

Learning objectives:

Text Types
  • Statements
  • News headlines
  • Poems
Vocabulary
  • Spies and detectives
    • Mysteries, codes, secret, messages, clues, magnifying glass, investigate, suspect, trap, solve, decode
  • Places at home
    • Dining room, living room, master room, bedroom, study, bathroom, kitchen
Language Items and Communicative Functions
  • Give and follow more advanced instructions
  • Use the simple past tense for reporting procedures followed in the past
Language Skills
  • Reading
  • Writing
Generic Skills
  • critical thinking skills
  • Problem solving skills

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L5-R-3-S3BC Understanding the use of a range of language features and other techniques to present themes, characters, experiences and feelings in simple literary / imaginative texts (IS, KS, ES)

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES)

L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)

L6-W-1-S3BC Writing a variety of texts of different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content (IS, KS, ES)

Level of Difficulty

2

Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)

To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)

At S3BC (at S3 level)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
Part 1
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Interactive Activity 1: Eye Spy
Students are asked to identify the magnified objects by examining the photos as well as reading the clues provided.
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Part 2
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Interactive Activity 2: Secret Codes
Students are asked to identify the hidden messages by investigating the secret codes and reading the clues provided.
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Part 3
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Interactive Activity 3: The Final Challenge
Students are asked to find the way out of a haunted house by using the clues provided (i.e. secret codes, news headlines, a map, a poem, etc.).
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Writing Activity: A "Day-Trap" in the Haunted House
Students are asked to write some field notes about how they escaped from the haunted house by revisiting Part 3 again.
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Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

KSb- To interpret and use more extensive information through processes and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing conclusions
KDd- To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation