Writing a school trip diary

This is a neat little exercise that I've done with my 5th year class to work on their speaking skills and then to follow on with their writing skills.

We went on a school trip to visit 3 local sites linked to the St James Highway, Eunate, Viana and Los Arcos. The children had worksheets to complete as they visited the different sites and while we were there I took lots of photos.

In class when we return, I show the photos and we brainstorm other words and verbs and put them into a wordcloud. Then the children have to select 8 photos and write sentences about their day.



It's an excelent exercise as they want to talk about what they did, it's far more real and relevant than exercises from a book.

As a demostration, I've put some of these into a ppt and created a word cloud with sample key vocabulary and past tense verbs they will need to describe their day out. I've loaded the ppt and wordcloud into slideshare and embedded it below.

School trip

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And there was light!

It's taken a while, but finally I've found the time to get this up and running.

My first few posts will be just to practice writing and posting, but soon I hope to get some useful posts incorporating some of the ICT tools we've been looking at with Cristina that I will use with my students.


ttfn,

Liam