Project ideas for teens Some tried and tested

Project ideas for teens Some tried and tested topics

Project ideas for teens Project: The Great Escape

Project ideas for teens Project: The Great Escape Objectives: Language aims: • To learn about the history of some famous and unusual prisons and prison escapes • Prepositions of place & movement • To build a maquette of a highsecurity prison • To present to the class an elaborate plan to escape from prison • Past simple • Vocabulary related to buildings, actions, arts & crafts materials • Seconditional • Adverbs of sequence • Giving reasons, describing a process, general fluency

Project ideas for teens 1. Introduction to topic: blind drawing

Project ideas for teens Example of photos to project

2. Vocabulary, how did he escape?

Project ideas for teens 3. Research in pairs, presentation to class

Project ideas for teens 4. Build a prison maquette in pairs

Project ideas for teens 5. Creative thinking, how to escape

Project ideas for teens Project: The Great Escape Objectives: Language aims: • To learn about the history of some famous and unusual prisons and prison excapes • Prepositions of place & movement • To build a maquette of a highsecurity prison • To present to the class an elaborate plan to escape from prison • Past simple • Vocabulary related to buildings, actions, arts & crafts materials • Seconditional • Adverbs of sequence • Giving reasons, describing a process, general fluency

Project ideas for teens Have you ever done any similar activities in your classes? If so, how did they go? What other activities could you include in this project? What follow-up activities could be done?

Project ideas for teens Two more project ideas… • Amelia Earhart • Food and health

Project ideas for teens Some other tried and tested topics: • Tribes around the world (research, build a tribal village using only natural materials) • The Circus (fitness, auditions for a circus, put on a circus show/documentary) • Natural Disasters (research, build a maquette for a natural-disaster-proof city, make a documentary or play about a natural disaster) • Science (research, do hands-on experiments, make a scientific TV programme) • Hollywood (history, a day in the life of, make a reality TV programme) • The environment (research, field trip, find ways to mend/reuse things instead of throwing them away)

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