Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

2.9 Advice for a visitor
Level
**
Language focus
Procedure, imperatives
Skills focus
Reading
Thinking focus
Sequencing
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Copy the procedure from Box 33, but jumble the order of the
instructions. Alternatively, you could copy the procedure and
cut it up into individual instructions.
Procedure
1 Tell the class that they are going to prepare some advice for a visitor. This
advice will help the visitor to use public transport in your area.
2 This activity can be done in two ways. You could give the children a
jumbled version of the procedure in Box 33 and ask them, in pairs, to
sort the procedure into the correct order. Alternatively, you could cut up
the procedure into separate sentence strips and ask the pairs to put the
instructions into the correct order. Encourage the children to look for
the sequencing language to help them decide on the order of
instructions.
3 When the instructions are in the correct order, ask the children to number
them 1–7 and check their answers.
Note: You may want to change some of the instructions, so that they match
your local situation.
Journeys
41

---