Olympic fever does not just dissipate over night my friends. That is why we are just now posting our Olympic-themed activity...or at least that is our excuse anyway. Now, we can hope, that many of our students have heard about the 2012 Olympics, talked about the 2012 Olympics, and/or have hopefully seen the 2012 Olympics. We can hope that they have built some knowledge or experiences relating to the Olympics so that we may further explore the vocabulary, figurative language, and concepts involving the Olympics. Relating to students' experiences regarding the topic allows them to be more engaged and focus on what they're being asked to do, rather than processing a foreign topic and generating definitions, answering questions, etc.
The gold medals have Olympic-themed vocabulary for the students to define and/or use in a sentence, the silver have idioms/expressions for students to interpret, and the bronze are key words (adjectives, actions) that describe an Olympic sport or related term that the student must use to determine the answer.
Use the paper bag "torch" as a grab bag for the medals, having each student draw when it is his his/her turn. Gold medals are 3 points, silver are 2, and bronze are 1. We like giving the student the point value regardless of if they answer correctly. They hold on to their "medals" and points are added at the end...which of your students will achieve "Phelps" status?!
Click here to download Olympic medals page 1
Click here to download Olympic medals page 2
Click here to download the bronze medal questions
If you are interested in making your own medals, visit http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/olympic_medals_to_print.htm
Here's how we made our torch...
Ta-da!
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