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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 4; Issue 6; November 02
Missing
Focused Use of the Web
by Monique ROCOUR, English teacher, I.E.P.S.C.F. – Uccle, Belgium
E-mail: m.rocour@care2.com
This is an internet-based activity my students have enjoyed and learned from.
Level: intermediate
Time: about 1h15'
Material: access to Internet
Focus:
- Review and expand the vocabulary of physical appearance and clothes
- Discover more examples (in context) of the use of past and present perfect tenses
- Prepare a composition they will write on the same subject.
The students received the following instructions:
Visit this web site and find the answers to the following questions:
http://www.missingpersons.org/
Click on the title "have you seen someone" to see a summary of different cases. Then click on the names of some of the missing persons to know more about their disappearance.
Try for example to find the answers to these questions:
The teacher chooses 2 missing people and asks the students to to find all the relevant information about them.
The questions clearly need to be updated by the teacher according to the information available on the site at that period of time. Back in the classroom, we give the answers and can discuss about the use of such a site, both its usefulness to help in finding some of these missing persons and the use we made of it.
Follow-up activity:
At home, I ask each student to cut a picture of a person out of a magazine or commercial folder and to imagine that person has disappeared. The composition will include a physical description of the person and of the clothes worn at the time as well as the circumstances of that disappearance.