Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – The Time Tunnel

 

Learning Targets for Key Stage 2 :

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

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

- stories

N.A.

- 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…)

- Listening
- Reading

- develop an awareness of English as an international language of communication

- 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

L3-R-5-P6BC: Using a range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts with the help of cues

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1

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

An interactive activity: Back to the Present
(with exercise)
:

Learners are guided to listen and locate key words or phrases (i.e. connectives or time markers) in order to understand the relationships between ideas or time relationships in the story.

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