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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

Related Basic Competencies:

L4-L-3-P6BC: Using a range of strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts on familiar topics which are delivered clearly in familiar accents (IS, KS, ES)

L3-R-5-P6BC: Using a range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts with the help of cues (IS, KS, ES)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
Part 1
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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.
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Part 2
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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.
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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