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Watch the video to revise Seasons, continents, numbers, favourites, present continuous and present simple. Mostly open questions, with some multiple choice, scrambled sentences and gap fills.

Interesting discussions can follow on from questions about seaons - is it always cold in Winter and hot in Summer? Can the weather change suddenly? How is the climate changing? What are the problems caused by this? -

Continents and populations - encourage the children to research how many people live in the seven continents, and how many people live in the cities compared to the countryside. Good for group work.

Talk about where the children live, do a quick class survey and find out how they get to school. This makes a good introduction to pollution, global warming and green issues etc.

Have a class discussion about the difference between animals and humans. eg Which is more dangerous, intelligent?

Encourage the children to discover how many children in the world do not go to school and compare this to their experience of lockdown. Encourage them to talk about this openly and ask each other questions about what, where, when, how long, who with etc they study.

Look into the future and introduce some future tenses by discussing plans for the holidays, and perhaps how these will be different this year.

All of the above will obviously depend on the level of English, however, even using simple present and continuous tenses and be/have/can, the subject matter is interesting end relevant enough to their lives to make some engaging lessons.

After the video, ask the children to tell you all the numbers they remember and what they relate to.

Complete the fact-file with information about themselves, Then ask a friend the same questions and conduct a mini-interview.

Tell the children you are going to revise some vocabulary about the world and use some grammar to talk about it.

Prepare a mini fact-file with some questions they will see in the video, concerning where they live, their favourite etc...

Watch the video through without the quiz and ask the children to remember all the numbers they see.

A lot of the questions in the quiz are open questions, so warn your students they will be required to do some writing!

We live in a wonderful and diverse world. This lesson encourages children to recognise their own place in it, revise some important grammar and at the same time inspire them for moving on to middle school! 

You and Your World

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Watch the video to revise Seasons, continents, numbers, favourites, present continuous and present simple. Mostly open questions, with some multiple choice, scr…