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

Learning and Teaching Activity – The Time Tunnel

Learning objectives:

Text Types	stories
Vocabulary
Language Items and Communicative Functions	use connectives to show the relationship between ideas (e.g. Although they make me look taller, I don’t feel comfortable in them) use time markers to show the time relationships between two actions (e.g. In 1980, the first personal computer was invented. Since then they are used to store information…)
Language Skills	Listening Reading
Attitudes	develop an awareness of English as an international language of communication
Generic Skills	communication skills critical thinking skills numeracy skills

Activity	Description	Suggested duration (minutes)	Available for self - learning?
Part 1 Preview Download	An interactive activity: Back to 1975 (with exercise): Learners are guided to listen and locate key words or phrase (i.e. connectives or time markers) in order to understand the relationships between ideas or time relationships in the story.	20
Part 2 Preview Download	An interactive activity: Back to the Present (with exercise): Learners are guided to listen and locate key words or phrase (i.e. connectives or time markers) in order to understand the relationships between ideas or time relationships in the story.	20

Dimension targets for KS2:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English

KSb-	To interpret and use simple given information through processes or activities such as labelling, matching, sequencing, describing, classifying; and to follow simple instructions
ESb-	To respond to characters and events in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means
ISb-	To converse about feelings, interests, preferences, ideas, experiences and plans