Writing and Speaking Activity for YLs, "In winter" topic, Skype

Today I want to tell you about the activity I did with my 7yo Skype student. We have learnt some "winter" vocabulary - I use the flashcards from the Teacher's Resource Book for Longman Children Picture Dictionary, we played some games and drilled the words. Then I decided to do a productive activity which would include writing and speaking.

I wrote "In winter" on a piece of paper and dividied the paper into two parts: "I put on" and "I can" - for the clothes and for the activities we had learnt.

Then I showed a flashcard and asked my student to classify: does it go with "I put on" or "I can".

So my student had to say: "In winter I put on my mittens". I wrote that down on the paper and the student could copy. Then we repeated the action.

When we had several cards done I stopped writing the words and my student just said the whole sentences which were clearly structured for him by that moment. So I could even do without the visual prompt and only showуed a flashcard to elicit "In winter I can have a snowball fight" etc.

So this activity lead the student from the vocabulary set to the controlled speaking and semi-controlled speaking which was amazing! And the copy of the activity is now on the wall above the student's bed to be revised))

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