Kerem Hernandez PDI
During PRE
Post
ACTIVITIES FOR
PDP
stage In most cases, Ss did not choose to listen to, watch or read the text so they need to develop an interest and desire to work with it. Ss need to know key vocabulary they will hear or see, and they need to understand why they are going to listen to/ watch/read the text.
Activities Vocabulary meanings
Picture prediction
Sentence predictions Dictionaries
Watch it!
What’s the activity about? Ss come up with what they think might be the meaning of the words from the vocabulary. The words are placed in sentences for Ss to guess the meaning of the words in context. After you show them the definitions. Ss have to predict what the story is about based on the pictures. Later, they discuss if they were right or wrong. Similar to the previous activity. This time instead of giving them pictures to predict, you give them sentences from the story and have them guess what the story is going to be about. Ss search for the different meaning of key words. Ss think about the topic of the lesson and then choose the most appropriate meaning related to the topic. Have Ss watch a vocabulary, cartoon or a movie in their house or movie theater to introduce them to the topic of the lesson.
Activities
What’s the activity about?
Words around the class
Paste the vocabulary words around the class. Give Ss the definition of the words and have them match them with the words. Later show the words in context to see if their answers change. Check answers later.
Unscramble the words
Use this activity to focus Ss’ attention to the spelling of key vocabulary.
Short videos/songs
Use this in the Pre stage to generate Ss ideas about the topic. Ss can discuss a little about what they heard or saw prior to reading or listening activity.
Top 10
Show a top 10 or 5 (facts, places, something related to the topic) and ask Ss to order the information according to something related to the topic before reading or listening.
Matching
Ss match words with the pictures to introduce key vocabulary.
stage Ss do a series of tasks which help them understand the text and which may help them develop listening and reading skills. No task should ‘test’ Ss’ memory of details. Ss need to check their answers in pairs or small groups before sharing answers with the whole class.
Activities Pictures and gist
What’s the activity about? Ss match the pictures with the general gist of the story.
Picture Story
Paste pictures related to the story on the walls. Have Ss stand up and, working in pairs, write under the pictures what happened in each scene according on what they read or listened.
Make a chart
Ss create a chart that includes important information about what they read.
Balloon Stories
Ss are giving the story inside of balloons. Ss should burst the balloons and organize the story according on the events.
Raise the flashcards
Give flashcards to your Ss according to certain words. Have Ss listen to the story. Every time they hear their word, they should raise it.
Describing characters
Show Ss a chart on the board that is related to the reading or listening. Ss have to write the names of the characters they identify and characteristics. The first to finish is the winner.
Do you remember?
Read to your Ss some dialogues of the story and they have to say which character said it.
Background noises
Play some noises related to the story, and Ss have to tell the scene of the story that belongs to those noises.
Activities What am I understanding? Did I get it?
What’s the activity about? Ss Listen/read and arrange pictures or events in order according of the story. Ss Listen/read and find the mistakes of the story, according on what they are hearing or reading. They can also do the activity after finishing the story.
stage After the During tasks, Ss need a chance to work further with the text, its topic, its content and/or vocabulary, functions or grammar used in it, OR to speak and/or write (also to read and/or listen) further based on the text. They need to see how the text relates or is applicable to them and the world outside the classroom.
Activities
What’s the activity about?
Change the ending
Ss change the end of the story after reading and listening to it.
What if?
Ss have to come up with What if sentences related to different alternatives in the story. An alternative version, ask Ss, What if you were there? Or what if you were a character in the story?
Recreate the story
Ask Ss to create pictures of the story on different posters, to put them around the class. Ss can later walk around the class and retell what happened to a partner.
True or false debates
Debates Outside project: sock puppet
Ss answer questions related to the topic. Ss are divided into two groups, one group is T and the other is F. Ss have to debate on what they think they are T or F. Ss have a debate after the during stage. Ss must bring their outside project to class, for example a sock puppet. Ss will make pictures of a background. They will listen to a story about the characters they made and they will use the background to present to the class.
Activities My story telling.
Acting time Completing the task
SPECULATIONS.
What’s the activity about? Ss make and tell a similar or personal story connecting ideas on what they read or listened in the story. In groups Ss have to do a role-play where they represent their favorites scenes or just one scene of the story.
Ss complete and discuss a noticing task such as “Find all of the verbs in the past tense” or “Underline the parts of the questions that make them polite.”
Ss have to speculate about what happened before or after the events in the text.