Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.11 Carnival in Brazil
Level
**
Language focus
Description, simple present tense
Skills focus
Listening for key words
Thinking focus
Identifying and selecting
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Group work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Remind the class of the steps in a dictogloss. See Activity 2.15 for detailed
instructions.
2 Ask them to recall carnivals or festivals in their own country.
3 Read out the description of a carnival in Brazil at a slow and steady pace.
See Box 83. Remember, the pace must be a little faster than a dictation.
4 While you are reading, the children are writing key words from the text.
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
90

---

5 When you have finished reading, ask small groups of children to
reconstruct the original text.
6 At the end of the activity, the children compare their descriptions with the
original text.