🏙️ Explorer Mission 3: My City Dictionary!

Hey hey, Explorers!

Higgins and Heather love walking in the park, but there are so many other cool places in the city! Do you want to discover them?

🎨 Activity 1: The Picture Dictionary

You have a special worksheet on your desk. Your mission is to:

- Match each picture with its name.

- Compare your answer with your partner

- Create a new picture dictionary with 5 more places you can find in your city

- Colour them to make them look amazing!

- Create a poster with all the picture dictionaries together

🔊 Activity 2: Listen and Repeat!

Do you want to sound like a native explorer? We have a magic online dictionary!

- Click the link and guess the English word: 👉 Interactive City Dictionary

- Now click the link and answer the questions: 👉 Quiz

- Listen to the pronunciation

- Repeat the words out loud with your partner

🕵️ Activity 3: The Shopping Challenge

Now, let's practice for our big role-play! Work with your partner and use your new "Magic Phrases."

• Student A asks: "Where can you buy bread?"

• Student B answers: "You can buy bread at the Bakery!"

Try these too:

• ...buy comics? 

• ...buy ice cream? 

• ...buy milk? 

How many more places do you know? What can you buy there? Ask your partner!

Notes for the teacher:

Half of a session will be dedicated to the tasks proposed in this post. Students will be working on it in pairs.

This lesson acts as the "Vocabulary Acquisition" phase of our city unit. By combining a physical worksheet with an online interactive dictionary we are presenting the content in multiple means of representation. With this, we can ensure all types of learners are engaged, following UDL methodology. 

By using the structure "Where can you buy...?" and "You can buy... at the...", students are not just memorizing nouns; they are practicing complete sentence structures and functional English.  It provides the final scaffold they need before they perform their independent role-plays in the next session!