“Oh! The Places You’ll Go!” — Dr. Seuss
This week’s theme on Sprout English is Travel! We’re featuring a fun Listen and Draw Activity about Hotels from the Project Depot. You’ll also find a free Travel Vocabulary worksheet and game. Kids love talking about places they’ve been, and traveling is a great way for students to use the language they’ve learned outside of the classroom. Encourage your students to share their travel memories in class with this printable Show and Share Passport. A travel memory doesn’t have to be a vacation to Disneyland. A trip to the zoo, the beach, or Grandma’s house can be a travel memory. Grab yourself a teacher’s stamp to make this even more fun for the kids!
How to Use the Show and Share Passport
Here are some ideas for using Sprout English’s Show and Share Passport. We are sure you’ll have some of your own ideas. Please share your ideas with us in the comments below.
1. Print this FREE PDF passport (printing instructions provided) and photocopy as many pages as you need for your students. Cut the pages as instructed and fold and staple the pages in the correct order. You can add as many insert pages as you wish. We recommend 10 entries per student.
2. Have your students fill in the Traveler’s Info. Explain to your students what the word “citizenship” means. Make sure that your students use a capital letter when they identify their citizenship in English. Your students can draw a self-portrait or add a real photograph.
3. Tell your students that they should fill out a blank Passport page whenever they go on an interesting trip or visit an interesting place. They can fill in the place name and give it a rating (out of 5 stars). Then they can draw a memory or write a sentence in the space provided. Remind the kids that any place can be interesting, including a playground or a playdate.
4. You can decide whether or not you want to devote class time to filling in the Passports or not. This can be an entirely optional activity for kids who are interested in doing mini-presentations (Adventure Club), or a required monthly activity for all of your students.
Optional: When an entry is filled out, your students can bring it to you to be stamped. Use any kind of stamp, such as a date stamp or a “great job” stamp. After the entry is stamped, students can present their place to the class. Alternatively, if you like to assign roles for students in the classroom each week, one role could be “Customs Officer.” That student could be in charge of the Passport stamp for the week.
5. Assign a regular time for your students to present places from their passports just as you might for a “show and share” object. The other students can ask the questions found at the back.
I hope you and your students have many great adventures this year!
Cheers,
Teacher Tara
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