Silke Stienitzka

Katharina Wimmer

Project „Holidays“

Introduction

Our project deals with the topic “holidays” and is based on Unit 1 of the New You&Me 2 “Back from our holidays”. The exercises have been designed for revision and practising, either at school or at home.

This project was created by Silke Stienitzka andKatharina Wimmer in the Proseminar „Fachdidaktik AHS - eLearning in the English classroom“ with Walter Steinkogler at Salzburg University, January 2007.

Overview• Vocabulary

– Mindmap (Mindmanager Smart)– Flashcards (JMatch)– Vocabulary exercises (JMatch)– Crossword “Holidays“ (JCross)

• Grammar– Past Tense sentences (JCloze)– Past Tense short texts (JCloze)

• Texts– Dialogue 1 (JCloze)– Dialogue 2 (LingoFox)

Vocabulary

This mindmap holds the most important words concerning holidays. We used the picture dictionary as a basis and added some more words which we considered useful for talking about holidays.

File:Mindmap_holidays.htm

Mindmap

Vocabulary

Flash cards

The flash cards shall help the students to memorize and deepen the new words.

File: 04_Flashcards.htm

Vocabulary

Vocabulary exercises

These two vocabulary exercises are based on the mindmap and the flashcards.

Files:

04_Choose_the_correct_word.htm

JMatch_transportation1.htm

Vocabulary

The crossword is the last vocabulary item. The students are asked to fill in the words based on given definitions.

File:

CrosswordHolidays2.htm

Crossword

Grammar

Past Tense sentences

These grammar exercises help the students to repeat the correct past tense forms. One exercise focuses on regular forms and the otherone on irregular forms.

Files:

01_PastTense_RegularVerbs.htm

03_PastTense_IrregularVerbs.htm

Grammar

The students shall insert the correct past tense forms in these 3 consecutive short texts.

File:JCloze_London_3.htm

Past Tense short texts

Texts

The students have already read a similar dialogue in their textbooks. Now, they should complete it with the correct forms of the verbs given on the left hand side.

File:

07_Talking_about_the_holidays.htm

Dialogue 1 - JCloze

Texts

The students shall complete the text by inserting the correct endings of the verbs.

File:

A_holiday_in_Spain_Worksheet1.doc

Dialogue 2 - LingoFox

Silke Stienitzka & Katharina Wimmer

WS 2006/07