FINDING OUT ABOUT MY NEW

SCHOOL

LEARNING OUTCOMESLearners will learn how to:- Ask questions- Interact in a conversation- Overcome their fears when they have to speak English - Become confident in a new situation

ORIENTATIONChoose two or three of the following questions and discuss

them with your partner:

• Do you like your new school? Why? Why not?• What do you like the most? / What don’t you like?• What do you know about your new school? • What is your favourite subject? Why? • What are you most worried about? (new

classmates/teachers/subjects…) Why?• What outside school activities are you going to do this year?

CONTENT LANGUAGECheck these Key Words in pairs and make sure you understand

the meaning of all of them

• Cafeteria / library / photocopy room / gym / corridor / music room / art room / playground / technologies workshop/toilets

• Upstairs/ downstairs/ground, first, second floor/right/left

Task 1: Match the words to the pictures: photocopy room – lab – cafeteria – gym – teachers’room

– music room

Task 2: Fill in the gaps

• I go to the________________ when I need to borrow a book.• We play sports in the__________________• You can buy some snacks at the____________________• The science teacher takes us to the________________ once a

week.

MODEL• Listen to these newcomers asking older students about the

school and complete the sentences: *1. - Where can I make a photocopy? - The photocopy room is on the______________ floor, next to the______.2. - Where is the _______________teacher’s office? - It’s on the first_________ between the___________and the__________

Task 3: Think of two places in the school and ask your partner where they are; then, change roles, and answer your partner’s questions

Useful phrases:- Is the…on the…floor?- Where is the…?- The…is on your right/left- The …is upstairs/downstairs, next to…

TASKS FOR LEARNERSGet in 3 groups and prepare questions to ask the older

students.

1. Group number one is going to prepare questions about the school rules and discipline.2. Group number 2 is going to prepare questions about the non-linguistical subjects they are going to have in English (maths, history and physical education).3. Group number 3 is going to prepare questions about outside school activities

TASK SUPPORT

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- http://iessierradesantabarbara.juntaextremadura.net/index.php/56-seccion-bilinguee/actividades/439-welcome

CONTENT LANGUAGE FOR LEARNER’S TASKS

• Useful vocabulary:- Head teacher/ head of studies/tutor/caretaker- English/geography and history/Spanish

language/philosophy/maths/physics and chemistry/French/science…departments

- excursion/school trip

SCAFFOLDING LANGUAGEUse these phrases to help you prepare your questions

- Can you… /Are you allowed to…? - Do you … in the maths/history/P.E. lesson? - Is it difficult to…? - When you go on a school trip, do you…?

ASSESSMENT CRITERIAYou will be recorded while you perform your task, so that you can listen to yourselves afterwards and evaluate your own peformance.

- Resourcefulness- Clarity- Use of language- Interaction