Розробка уроку "Travelling, Adventures"

Welcome to the world of English!

 

This workbook is designed to improve your English with pleasure. You can boost your vocabulary and revise grammar. All tasks in this workbook are intended to develop your listening, speaking and writing skills.

These materials are suitable for individual and group usage.

 

 

 

Designed be Svitlana Tsymbaliuk

 

Pre-watching activities

1. Answer the questions

• Do you like traveling?
• What unusual places have you visited?
• Look at the covering of our workbook. What this film is about?

 

2. GLOSSARY

Explorer - дослідник

Jungle - джунглі

Adventure - пригода

Treasure - скарб

Expedition - експедиція

Predator - хижак

Survive - виживати

Cursed – проклятий

Trap - пастка

Revere – поклонятися

Figure out - з’ясувати

Safe and sound – цілий і неушкоджений

Mercenary - найманець

Split up - розділяти

Perish - загинути

To be into - добре знатися в чомусь

Peer - ровесник

Indigenous - місцевий

Upside down – з ніг на голову

Fit in - пристосовуватись

Hold on - чекати

Destroy - знищувати

Thrive - процвітати

Follow up – відслідковувати

 

 

 

3. Find the words in the word search

 

4. Match the words with their definitions

Words

Indigenous

Destroy

Mercenary

Thrive

Safe and sound

Expedition

Survive

Be into

Hold on

Peer

 

Definitions

local

a person who is the same age or has the same social position

to ruin

one that serves merely for wages

to prosper

out of danger and unharmed

a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose

to continue to live or exist

be interested in

wait

 

5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box

Expedition treasure explorers mercenaries trap fit in safe and sound peers jungle follow up

Dora’s parents were 1_________. They discovered new places. They lived I 2________ and tried to find Parapata. When they went to 3_________ , they got lost. Dora tried to 4________ her parents but couldn’t. Dora and her 5________ were kidnapped by 6_________. They made her to find 7_________. Hey should 8 jungle and not to set the 9________. In the end they were 10___________.

 

For additional exercises use links or QR codes

 

 

While-watching activities

1. Listening for vocabulary. Watch the film and write out unknown words.

https://theflixer.tv/watch-movie/watch-dora-and-the-lost-city-of-gold-full-4366.5393347

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Watch the film and find names of the characters and write out adjectives for their personality description

3.Listen to the dialogue 23.39-24.15 and fill in the gaps.

• Diego, wait! At least I got people dancing and _________.
• They were _______ you. They were laughing at you and me. You have been here for weeks. How do you not see that?
• I see that. I am not stupid. But I have to be ______. That’s all I know how to do.
• Well, just stop doing it. … And just be ______
• Diego, we used to be so _____. Why are things so different now?
• Because Dora this isn’t the _____, where you can do whatever you want and be best friend with monkey. This is _____ school. It's ____ or_____. And it was hard enough already without having __ ____ ____of the class ________.

 

4. Decide if the sentences are True or False

1. Dora and her parents live in the jungle.
2. Dora and Diego went to find Parapata.
3. Dora and Diego are the best friends.
4. Sammy hates Dora.
5. Dora decided to find her parents.
6. Dora and her classmates were kidnapped by treasure hunters.
7. Alejandro rescued children.
8. Alejandro gave a map of treasures.
9. They found Dora’s parents at once.
10.                    They found Parapata and took all gold and became rich.

 

5. 
   Pause at 27.50 and try to predict what will come next. Make notes.

Work on your grammar

Present Simple	Present Continuous
Facts don’t change It often rains in April. Routines and habits My neighbors often argue.	Things happening now She is driving a car now. Temporary situations Sammy is staying with us.

 

6. Find examples of Present Simple and Present Continuous in the film.

Present Simple	Present Continuous

 

7. Complete the sentences with the correct Present Simple or Present Continuous forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. My dad and I (often/spend) hours walking in the park.

2. In our country it (usually/not rain) much in spring.

3. Can you find Randy among all students? (he/take) photos?

4. I can’t talk to you right now because I (buy) tickets.

5. My sister (often/eat) porridge for breakfast.

6. Mrs Brown (teach) my class today because our teacher is ill.

7. (your friend/like) singing?

8. (you/do) your homework every day?

8.Make an outline of the film

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.Answer the following questions.

Why did Dora went to the city?

Where did Dora get her education?

What did Dora and her classmates do in the museum basement?

Why was Dora kidnapped?

What did Alejandro give to Dora?

Who was Alejandro?

Whom did they meet in the jungle?

Why did children decide to find Parapata?

Did they find the lost city of gold?

 

 

 

 

After-watching activities

1. Sequencing events. Put the sentences in the correct order.

• Dora understood that her parents got lost.
• Dora went to her cousin Diego.
• Alejandro gave Dora her father's diary.
• Dora’s parents went to the expedition to find Parapata.
• Alejandro turned out to be a treasure hunter.
• A team of teenagers and Alejandro went to find Dora’s parents. 
• Dora and her classmates were kidnapped in a museum.
• Dora and her friends found Parapata and rescued her parents.
• They got in a trap.
• Alejandro rescued children.

 

2. Say who in this story

• Knows jungle very well
• Saw 2 films about jungle
• Tries to be a normal teenager
• Professors and explorers
• Knows all jungle puzzles
• Pretends to be a friend
• Knows jungle dance
• Supports Dora in the city
• Tries to find Parapata
• Wants to become rich

 

3. Describe the following episodes

 

 

Describe the following episodes

4. Discussion

• What is your favorite character?
• What is your favorite episode?
• What is the most intriguing episode? 
• Would you like to go on such adventure?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dora’s lifestyle?

 

5. Retell the story from the different point of view. Retell the story as if you are Dora, Diego, Alejandro, Dora’s parents

 

6. Prove that:

1. Dora and Diego were friends.
2. Dora was good-natured and friendly girl.
3. Diego was embarrassed by Dora’s behavior.
4. Dora knew jungle very well.
5. Randy was smarter that seemed to be.
6. Alejandro cheated teens.
7. Dora’s parents believed in their daughter and trust her.
8. Dora liked city’s lifestyle.

Additional exercises

 

Plot                                     Vocabulary

 

Grammar                            Vocabulary

 

Read film summary and fill in the gaps (high school, decipher, rival, escape×2, treasure, expedition, adventure, mercenary, trap, final test)

 

Deep in the Peruvian jungle, 6-year-old Dora, daughter of jungle explorers Cole and Elena, spends her days going on 1_________ with her monkey friend Boots, her 7-year-old cousin Diego, and imaginary friends Backpack and Map. One day, Diego and his family leave to Los Angeles while Dora and her parents remain searching for the hidden Inca city of gold, Parapata.

After 10 years of exploring, Dora's parents 2_________ the location of Parapata and choose to send a now 16-year-old Dora to Diego's 3_____ _______ in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city. Staying with a now 17-year-old Diego and his family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy and Randy. Sammy sees her as her 4_____. Randy is amused by Dora’s intelligence. Dora enjoys her new life, but Diego is embarrassed by her eccentric behavior.

One day, on a class field trip to a museum, where they are captured by 5__________ led by Powell who fly them to Peru. When they land, a man named Alejandro, who claims to be a friend of Dora's parents, helps them 6_______. Alejandro reports that Dora's parents have gone missing and that the mercenaries are searching for them in hopes of getting into Parapata to steal its 7_________.

The group travels through numerous obstacles, including quicksand, Inca ruin puzzles, hallucination-inducing spores and attacks from forest guards of Parapata. After numerous hazards, Dora reaches her parents just outside the borders of Parapata, but Alejandro reveals he was the mercenaries' leader all along and captures them. The other teens are caught as well, but Boots appears and helps them 8______. The teens decided to find gold and use it to bargain for Dora’s parents release.

Inside the hidden city, Dora and the others solve its temple's puzzles, bringing them to the central shrine. Alejandro, having secretly followed them, arrives as the group reaches its 9_____ ____. While he thinks that the gold is the right answer, Dora warns him that the test could have bad answers for those who fail it and that she and her friends are safe while he stands on the 10_____, which soon opens and Alejandro falls in it. Dora speaks to their queen in Quechua, assuring that the kids only came for her parents and to learn.

Dora's parents and the teens arrive at her jungle home, where the other teens' parents are waiting and are happy to see them. Her parents discuss going on another 11_________ as a family, but Dora decides to return to school in Los Angeles.

7.Write a letter to Dora (write about your unusual trip)