Treasure Hunt

Lesson Plan

Підготовлено та проведено вчителем англійської мови

Височин Н.А.

Concept: Understanding and following a map to successfully get to a predetermined destination

Level_: Beginner

Objectives: As a result of this lesson, students will:

•      learn to identify treasure-related vocabulary

•      learn basic map-reading skills

•      review and demonstrate their knowledge of alphabet, numbers, jobs, family members, countries and their flags, main landmarks of London, prepositions of place

•      develop critical thinking skills

Assessment: Observe students’ ability to find the “treasure” by using map, to check their knowledge of studied material

Materials: map, poster with London’s landmarks, vocabulary cards, poster with the alphabet, flashcards “jobs”, “flags”, “number ice-cream’, “treasure”, letters on separate cards (adhesive paper), logos of each location according to the map, answer sheet, 

Secret message: “Your present is in room 221”

Secret word: “Secret” Procedure

Gather both teams and explain that solving the puzzles and doing the tasks at the locations, they will gather the numbered letters, which they have to stick into the appropriate boxes on their maps according to numbers. The more letters they have – the closer they get to the treasure – the message says where to look for it. The number of given letters depends on the number of right answers of the task. If the team doesn’t get enough letters to make up the “secret message”, after doing all the location it may come back to the location, do the wrong tasks again and get more letters. Besides, at each location students have to earn letters of the secret word, which gives them the right to take the “treasure” when they find it. At each location each team gets a sticker on the map to see what is left. The order of the locations doesn’t matter. Each team has its own color of the letters and a mark of the same color on the map, to avoid mixing up the letters.

The secret word letters don’t have numbers, so students have to make up the word out of the letters.

The curator of each location has an Answer sheet for each team where he/she marks the correct answers, the number of correct answers and the number of letters he/she gives to the team.

Location 1. “Know your ABCs”

The location is in the school library. Stick the Alphabet poster on a wall not far from the library – the students can run and look at it while doing the task, if they have any problems. But they lose time. 

The task is to arrange the given words into the alphabetical order.

Location 2. “Ice-cream numbers”

 Match all the parts of ice-cream cones.

Location 3. “Around the World”

Look at the flags and name the countries and the nationalities.

Location 4.  “What’s the job?”

Match the words to the pictures. Two are three extra words.

IT room.

Group the family members.  https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pze1iexvn18  

Location 6. “London Landmarks”

Look at the poster and name the landmarks. For the correct answer the teams are given the riddle:

Students have to find the posters of Big Ben and Tower Bridge on the walls of the ground floor and look for the letters of their color around or under them.

Location 7. “Where is..?”

Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

Secret word

Secret message

Answer sheet

Location logos

Map