Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 69
World rivers
A–M–A–Z–O–N
South America
N–I–L–E
Africa
D–A–N–U–B–E
Germany/Europe
G–A–N–G–E–S
India/Asia
M–I–S–S–I–S–S–I–P–P–I
The United States
S–E–I–N–E
France/Europe
Y–A–N–G–T–S–E
China/Asia
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Follow-up
• Ask the children to sort the rivers into alphabetical order.
• Ask the children to use an atlas to find these rivers. Then ask them to note
the country or continent through which the rivers flow. They could also
discover which river is the longest and which is the shortest.
4.2 Map making
Level
*
Language focus
Map, geography words, letters of the alphabet, numbers
Skills focus
Listening for details
Thinking focus
Labelling
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Draw a map-making grid on the board. See Box 70.
Procedure
1 Divide the class into pairs and ask each pair to copy the map-making grid
from the board. See Box 70. You may want to introduce new vocabulary
from Box 71 before you begin the activity.
2 Tell the class that they are going to draw a map and they have to listen for
two pieces of information.
3 One person in the pair has to listen for the coordinate, which will be a
combination of one letter and one number, e.g. C3. The other person has
to listen for the geographical feature, e.g. A big blue lake.
4 Together, they combine their information and draw the geographical
feature on their map-making grid.