Life in the Stone Age Class Title Grammar

Life in the Stone Age Class Title: Grammar and Vocabulary Practice/Quiz. ESL Lesson Title: Life in the Stone Age Targeted Level: Advanced/Proficient Author: Cristina Arsene Students will play a different version of “Charades” while practising and testing their already acquired knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary. Illustrations are used as hints and symbols in order to help the students find the appropriate word to fill in the given blank spaces as well as to direct the students’ attention towards the various meanings and connotations that words and expressions can take in English. A Voki avatar will read part of the text before the Power. Point presentation is started in order to give an audio example of the intonation and accent that other English speakers, though virtual ones, can have. The game is intended to make both testing and practice more entertaining and visually attractive. Visual hints will help the students remember easier the abstract information. By analyzing the symbols and hints given by the visuals in order to find the correct solution, students use their brains on different levels. There at least four activities that are performed by the brain with the purpose of finding the correct answer: accessing already know information, analysis of new context, tranforming the symbol/hint into useful material for the answer, deciding which version is the accurate solution to the question. Objectives: Students will: 1. Practice and test their knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary 2. Learn new facts about the Stone Age period Materials: 1. Individual Handouts 2. Power. Point presentation and Voki. com voice http: //www. voki. com/pickup. php? scid=8532771&height=133&width=100

Life in the Stone Age It is a common misconception that people in the Stone Age lived (0)…on… the edge of starvation, in small groups wandering around from (1) ………………. to place. On the (2) ……………, recent studies of archeological sites have (3) …………………. . it clear that life was probably a (4) ……………. . deal easier than it was for later farming communities. After the Ice Age, the weather was warmer than it is today and there was certainly (5) ……………. . lack of fresh supplies of meat, fish, plants and berries. During the Stone Age or Mesolithic Period, (6) …………… it is known to archaeologists, men and women led an active social and spiritual life. Large encampments, where (7) ……………. to 200 people may have lived, have recently (8) ……………. . to light in several parts of Europe, in (9) ………………… to the remains of communal tombs and temples. Making stone tools (10) ………………. . probably have been regarded as a communal activity, in (11) ………………. even children used to participate. Nor were women thought (12) ……………. as inferior in these societies. In (13) ………………. likelihood, they took (14) ………………. actively in the decision-making of the tribe. Only later, with the arrival of farming, (15) ……………. they lose their status.

Life in the Stone Age by Cristina Arsene

It is a common misconception that people in the Stone Age lived (0) ……. on……. the edge of starvation, in small groups wandering around from (1) ………………. to place.

On the (2) ……………, recent studies of archeological sites have (3) …………………. . it clear that life was probably a (4) ……………. . deal easier than it was for later farming communities.

On the (2) …contrary… recent studies of archeological sites have (3) …made… it clear that life was probably a (4) > ……………. . deal easier than it was for later farming communities.

After the Ice Age, the weather was warmer than it is today and there was certainly (5) ……………. . lack of fresh supplies of meat, fish, plants and berries.

During the Stone Age or Mesolithic Period, (6) …………… it is known to archaeologists, men and women led an active social and spiritual life.

Large encampments, where (7) ……………. to 200 people may have lived, have recently (8) ……………. . to light in several parts of Europe, in (9) ………………… to the remains of communal tombs and temples.

Making stone tools (10) ………………. . probably have been regarded as a communal activity, in (11) ………………. even children used to participate.

Nor were women thought (12) ☐✓ ……………. as inferior in these societies. In (13) ………………. likelihood, they took (14) ………………. actively in the decision-making of the tribe.

Only later, with the arrival of farming, (15) DO -. . . - DONE ……………. they lose their status.