Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

5.9 A healthy lifestyle
Level
**
Language focus
Vocabulary: weekend activities, comparatives and
superlatives, because
Skills focus
Speaking
Thinking focus
Ranking
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
On the board, list all the weekend activities and sentence
stems from Box 101.
Procedure
1 Ask the children to read out the weekend activities from the board.
2 Ask them which activity is the healthiest and which one is the least
healthy. There may be some debate about this. Let the children share
their ideas, and encourage them to give reasons for their opinions, using
the sentence stems from Box 101.
3 Ask the children, in pairs, to rank the activities from the least healthy to
the healthiest. Again, encourage them to use the sentence stems as they
discuss and debate with each other.
4 Ask the pairs to share their answers with their classmates.
Note: There are no absolute answers here, although dancing and playing
basketball are obviously healthier than playing computer games. The aim of
the activity is to stimulate debate and to encourage the children to give
reasons for their choices.