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Activity
Educational purpose
Differentiation
Ideas
(S.O.)
Ice breaker for the
beginning of the course for
helping students become
comfortable with their new
classmates
To foster communication
It can be adapted to
different levels. Lower
levels: provide written
information or images.
To identify mistakes
(grammar, word choice,
Visual learners:
illustrations instead of
words
SS create their
sentences for
another student
board
Rank words /
sentences in order
To foster communication,
to review previous
knowledge.
Creative thinking
Miming
To review previous
knowledge
To form correct sentences
Jigsaw reading
To foster communication
(introduce speaking into a
reading lesson)
Cuisenaire rods to
represent stressed and
unstressed syllables
To reflect.
To take a quick energy
break (brain breaks).
Kinaesthetic learners.
Story about
someones life to
practise two
problem sounds
Mushrooming
groups e.g. for a
debate. Start off
with two students,
them form a group
of four and then
eight etc.
To improve pronunciation
Visual learners:
illustrations
Auditory learners:
recordings
To reflect
To foster communication
Mixed groups
To build up a story
Jigsaw listening
Lower students:
illustrations/give more
clues
Self-correct
homework using
symbols
To optimise learning
opportunities from
mistakes learners make in
written tasks
Order words on a
timeline
together
Ask students to correct
their work in class and
share some of the
corrections with the group
To display information in
visual form
To help students
understand the chronology
of historic events
To work on prepositions
To make questions
Different grammar
structrures eg
a) What does / What
do
b) they like? /she like?
To improve the
effectiveness of
group work