Lost in the Park

Name of
Type of
task
Task

1.
What was
he doing?

Reading
and
writing
skills
Individu
al Work

Description of Task

The task is focused on the

students understanding of
the keywords as well as
their application of the past
continuous rules. In this
task, the students will
match words to suitable
pictures, complete
sentences by choosing the
right word and forming full
sentences with accurate
grammar and spelling.

2.
Reading The task includes two
What
task (true parts. In the first part,
does this
or false
students read sentences in
person
questions)
which people are
look like?
and
drawing described. Then they look
pictures at the pictures for each set
based on of sentences to determine
descriptio whether the statements are
n
true or false.
In the second part of the
Individual
task, students read given
Work
sentences, then draw and
color based on the
description.

Instructional Purpose
Learning Objective
The purpose of this task is for
the students to acquire
important vocabulary for the
web-quest mission as well as
their curriculum-related study.
It is also a practice for their past
continuous rule knowledge.
The learning objectives are:
Students will be able to
identify vocabulary words
related to parks activities
(chase, laugh, catch, cross,
meet, and shout).
Students will be able to
apply the past continuous
rule.
The purpose of this activity is to
expose students to ways of
describing physical
characteristics such as height,
eyes (color, size), hair (texture,
color, and length). In addition,
students will be exposed to
vocabulary related to clothes.
Moreover, the purpose includes
recognizing the used structure
in describing people (s/he + has
+ got).
The learning objective is:
Students demonstrate
comprehension of physical
characteristics and clothes by
drawing picture based on given
description.
For the first activity, they will
demonstrate comprehension of
such description by determining
whether the given sentences are
true or false.

Materials included

Pictures from the

curriculum textbook.

A YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=_MRhUU1j3js

Links to grammar
practice websites:
http://www.perfectenglishgrammar.com/presentsimple-use.html

http://www.engames.eu/p
resent-simpleelementary-students/

Physical appearance and

clothes
1. Appearance:
http://www.learningchoc
olate.com/content/appear
ance
2. Describing people:
http://www.learningchoc
olate.com/content/describ
ing-people
3. Clothing:
http://www.learningchoc
olate.com/content/clothin
g-0

Practice: Face match

game:
http://www.learnenglish.
org.uk/kids/games/facematch.swf
Rules:
-Present: Subject + is + verb
+ ing
-Past: Subject + was + verb +
ing
4

Lost in the Park

3.
Interview
with the
police
officer

4.
Rules and
Signs

Writing
Skill
Pair Work

Writing
rules and
designing
signs for
each rule
Group
Work

The task asks students to

work in pairs. One of the
student is the police officer
who asks the questions and
the other one is interviewee
who answers the questions.
The students are required
to record themselves after
practicing their roles. Both
of students are required to
work on perfecting the
interview. I.e., both of
them will be working on
writing the answers first,
then performing the roles
assigned to each one of
them.

The task requires the

students to work in groups
and write five rules for
children in parks. The
student are required to
write the rules using must
and mustn't in full
sentences with the correct
form of verbs. Then the
students are required to
design five signs, one sign
for each rule.

This task prepares the students

for their final task (designing an
ad). They will practice
describing people using suitable
adjectives learnt in class and
used in the previous task.
In addition, this task puts the
students in a real life situation,
as they will play the roles of an
interviewer and an interviewee.
The Learning Objective is:
Students will be able to
describe a person physically
using the appropriate
adjectives.

http://learnenglishkids.british
council.org/en/wordgames/make-thesentences/describing-people
A Song about describing
people.
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=qhWV4fzchq4

A picture that has many

useful adjectives. Some
of the adjectives describe
the shape and the others
describe the feelings.
https://aliciateacher2.files
.wordpress.com/2013/02/
665694_2907455443592
46_851687737_o1.jpg

Clothes Vocabulary:
http://www.learnenglish.
de/vocabulary/clothes.ht
ml

Must and mustn't rule

explanation:
https://learnenglishkids.b
ritishcouncil.org/en/gram
mar-tests/modals-mustand-mustnt

The purpose of this task is to

provide students the opportunity
to use the grammar rule (must
and mustn't, with the correct
form of verb) in a meaningful

context, where there is a

situation that allows the student
to apply what they have learned
correctly.
The learning objective is:
Students will be able to
write 5 rules to children in
parks using must and
mustn't.

Grammar reference card:

https://learnenglishkids.b
ritishcouncil.org/sites/kid
s/files/attachment/gramm
ar-reference-cardmodals-must-andmustnt.pdf

Must and mustn't games:

https://learnenglishkids.b
ritishcouncil.org/es/node/
14454

Lost in the Park

5.
Ad

This task is a
comprehensive task as it
combines all the learnt
Writing
and
skills and knowledge in the
Designing unit and the previous tasks.
an ad
The students will design an
about a
ad about a missing person
missing
based on clues they got
person
from the previous tasks.
The ad will include the
Group
Work
vocabulary and grammar
rules the students practiced
previously.

The purpose of this task is for

the students to apply the
acquired knowledge and skills
in real life practice.
The students will be given an
example of the final product,
guidelines and a rubric to help
them in doing the task.
Students can choose to design
their ads manually or using
technology. In either way,
students will enhance two vital
skills, motor skills or/and
technical skills as well as their
creativity
The Learning Objective:
Students will be able to
design an ad about a
missing person.

Resources to get free

posters:
http://www.docspile.com/
missing-person-postertemplate/

Missing people posters

templates:
http://knownasmonique.o
rg/create-a-missingperson-poster

How to make an effective

poster:
http://m.wikihow.com/M
ake-an-EffectiveMissing-Pet-Poster