A VIDEO

PROJECT TITLE : A short video: Summertime in Benalmádena

A one-minute video presentation of the beautiful town of Benalmadena in Malaga (Spain)

LEARN

• Grammar and usage: like, can, present simple, present continuous, going to future, want to, the imperative.

• Vocabulary: Everyday activities, Summer, Cameras, Computers, Places in town,  Numbers Countries and nationalities,  Common objects , Verb phrases,  Jobs ,The family  Common adjectives , Daily routine ,Times and dates,More verb phrases ,Go, have, get ,Flats and houses , Town and city , Food.

• Photography
• Flixtime application

PRACTICE

Language activities 

1. Online and printable Summer activities at anglomaniacy
2. Write and Chat: Akinator-  Ask the talking robot about the summer -  Talk to Oliver-  Cleverboat.com
3. Printable/Notebook   Writing exercises at abcteach   Summer word games at anglomaniacy
4. New English File Elementary Online (OUP)
5. ESL Interactive Grammar Games
6. Vocabulary at manythings.com
7. ONLINE SUMMER COMPUTER GAMES :a) SQUIGLY'S GAMES   b) SUMMER FUN QUIZ c) A KID'S HEART
8. Songs: 

• Karaoke  Summer Song by EFL learning at youtube     
• Can't stop the summer sun (Children's Song by Gerry O'keefe)
• Summertime fast by EFL learning
• English time songs: Summer is fun
• Summer nights (Grease) 
• Here comes the Sun (The Beatles)
• Summer Paradise (Simple Plan & K'naan)
• Under your spell (Dover)
• Summer hits Spotify with Tunewiki app

ICT activities:

• Using Flixtime: http://flixtime.com/
• Taking pictures: A photo walk in Benalmadena. First read "Ten photo walking tips"
• Websearch: images , music and links related to Benalmadena and the summer

CRAFT activities

Make a poster  with the texts and drawings of the printable activities we do during the project. You can use cuttings from magazines and newspapers too. You can download and print images from the Internet. Don't forget to colour the images and add texts. 

• Title: Summer is here!! 
• Printable/Notebook   Writing exercises at abcteach   Summer word games at anglomaniacy
• Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

 

DO

• Step 1 Make a script with the pictures (number and places),  texts and titles we are going to use on your notebooks.
• Step 2 Taking pictures  in the streets of Benalmadena.
• Step 3 Searching the web for Benalmadena links and images.
• Final step: Creating the flixtime video : Summertime in Benalmadena

TEST

• Language written test: I like summer- A Rebus Story
• Evaluation Google form