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PLAN AND ACTIVITIES ABC PROJECT 2014

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

EMA & CHRISTINA


*15 min highs and lows: entering the
classroom, preparing, welcoming the
students
Activity1: spider's web
Duration: 30 min
Procedure:sitting in a circle, teachers
start with telling their names and
something about themselves (I like
football), who ever feels the same
raises their hands and the yarn is
tossed to that person. The circle
repeats. Aim: Getting to know each
other, creating a sense of community
Materials:a ball of wool
Activity2: class rules
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: talking about who we are,
why are we here, what are our
obligations and rules we have to
follow. Writing the rules down on the
paper. The aim: creating rules for the
project, discipline. Writing skills.
Materials: hamer paper or any kind of
bigger paper, markers
Activity3: culture in a box (preparing
for it)
Duration: 10 min
Procedure: introducing the activity,
every student should bring something
about our culture (postcard, picture,
tourist guide, map, anything dear to

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Activity1: I'm going on a holiday to


Brazil
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: walking around in a circle,
first student says;Hi Im ______, Im
going on a holiday to Brazil and Im
bringing a _____(object beginning
with the same letter as that persons
name).The next person then says,
Hi Im ______, Im going on a
holiday to Brazil and Im bringing
_____s ______ (the previous persons
name and object) and a ______. The
aim: energize the group, speaking
skills, memory activity, a hint for the
World Cup activities
Materials:none

Activity1: Wavin' flag by K'naan


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: talking about the World
Cup a bit, listening to and watching
the video, dancing. The aim: boosting
the motivation, building the team
spirit, energizing
Materials: laptop

Activity1: simple sounds make great


music
Duration:20 min
Procedure: start the noise by clapping
your hands, clapping hands against
the table, chairs etc. Humming and
dancing is also welcome! It can be
recorded and then played. The aim:
introducing the activity Music of the
world, having fun, creating a relaxing
atmosphere
Materials: hands, tables, chairs, sticks,
plastics, metal anything that makes
sound!

Activity1: ballon or finger painting


(outside)
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: all the students paint on a
same sheet or a big paper. The aim:
having fun, art activity, warming up
Materials: a sheet or a paper, paints

Activity2: the line (outdoor activity)


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: draw a line, teacher says a
statement and students who agree or
match approach the line. The aim:
building a community spirit, listening
skills
Materials: chalk or tape or a knot
Activity3: what makes you happy?
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: listening to 6 different
statements about being happy, from 6
different countries. Talking about

Activity2: Team flag


Duration:30 min, outdoor activity
Procedure: creating a flag as a team.
Painting a class flag on a sheet or a
fabric. Listening to a song Wavin'
flag by K'naan. What are our
colours, our team slogan, a mascot.
The aim: building the community
spirit, art activity, introduction to a
story about different cultures
Materials: 70x100 cm white sheet or
thicker fabric, paints, brushes
Coming back to activity1, filling the
gaps of Wavin' flag lyrics
Duration: 15 min
Procedure: listening and filling the
gaps of lyrics.The aim: listening,
reading, writing skills.
Activity3: a day in the life
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: reading and listening to

Activity2: Music of the world


Duration: 45 min
Procedure: listening to various kinds
of continental music. Pointing the
countries on the map. Talking about
different instruments, naming them.
There are pictures on the board.
Group the students. Ask them to draw
a world map and stick the instruments
where they are played. The aim:
promoting cultural diversity through
music. Listening, talking skills
Materials: printable pictures, glue,
hamer paper, world map
Activity 3: the USA
Duration: 45 min

Activity2: culture in a box


Duration: 30 min
Procedure: collecting things about our
culture that every student brought and
packing them into a box or an
envelope. Putting a stamp on it.
Talking about what we have chosen to
send to America. The aim: talking
skills, cultural diversity, learning to
send a package
Materials: a smaller box or a big
envelope, stamp, tape, scissors
Activity3: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: talking about our own
culture, building up on a previous
activity. Making a poster with
different pictures and drawings. The
aim: talking skills, art activity,
learning
about
our
culture,
appreciating it.
Materials: printable pictures, hamer
paper, markers, glue

them that fits the envelope) to send it


with our American colleagues. The
aim is to promote cultural diversity
and to speak about our own culture.
Materials: a small box or a big
envelope
*15 min highs and lows: summarizing
the day, asking students what would
they like to do, what kind of music
they listen to

those countries and pointing them on


a map, sticking post-its. There are
pictures and statements on the board.
Splitting up in groups and discussing,
every group gets a pack of pictures to
post them on a paper. Writing,
drawing, posting on the paper, what
makes them happy. Presenting their
papers. The aim: introducing different
cultures, listening, writing and talking
skills
Materials: world map, post-it, papers,
printable pictures, glue, crayons,
markers
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*15 min highs and lows: introducing


the theme of rights and obligations

*15 min highs and lows: introducing


the theme of justice and peace

Activity 1: secret dancer


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: stand in a circle. Choose a
detective and ask him/her to leave the
room. Then choose a secret dancer
and he/she should start dancing their
favourite dance move. Everyone
copies them. The detective comes
back and stands in a center and tries
to identify the secret dancer. Secret
dancer should change the move,
everyone copies. Detective has 3
guesses.
The
aim:
relaxing
atmosphere, warming up, physical
involvement.

Activity1: Candies
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: have each student take
some candies (those with wrapping so
their hands don't get sticky). Tell them
not to eat them. Then ask them to tell
as many facts about themselves as
many candies they have in their
hands. When they are done, they can
eat the candies. The aim: warming up.
Talking about modesty.

Activity2: The Rights of Children


Duration: 60 min
Procedure: sharing some information
about UN and the Rights of children.
Show a short video, discuss. Form the
groups, students should write/draw
ten rights that they think all children
should have. Present all the groups,

Activity2: Reading Aesop's fables


(outside)
Duration:60 min
Procedure: reading The wolf and the
dog, The dishonest dog, The ant
and the cricket. Talking about the
content, discussing the theme of
freedom and justice in the fables.
Asking students different questions.
Build-up: acting out the fables with
the finger puppets. Asking students to
illustrate the stories with paint.

different stories about kids from


different countries. Their pictures are
on the board. Splitting up in groups
and making comics or a cartoon about
their typical day in life. Presenting
each group's work. The aim: reading,
writing, speaking skills, art activity.
Getting to know different cultures and
habits of their peers around the world.
Materials: laptop, printable pictures
and texts, papers for drawing,
crayons, markers.

Procedure: ask our American coteacher to present their culture, make


a poster together with students. The
aim: getting to know different
cultures, listening, speaking skills.
Materials: hamer paper, printable
pictures, glue, markers, scissors

*15 min highs and lows: summarizing


the day and the week, talking about
further activities

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*15 min highs and lows, singing


Activity1: Wizards, Elves and Giants
(outside)
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: the game is a modified
version of scissors, paper, rock. Two
teams line up against each other, and
must collectively either decide to be
wizards, giants or elves (You can
make up actions for each). On the
count of three, each team does their
action, and the winning team (elf
beats wizard, wizard beats giant, giant
beats elf) chases the other team back
to their wall and tries to tip as many
people as possible. When somebody is
tipped they then join the other team.
This process is repeated until one
team has every single person. The
aim: warming up.
Materials: none
Activity2:
inventing
tomorrow's
world(Utopia)
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: brainstorm the ideas with

*15 min highs and lows; singing and


talking, talking about favourite
colours, introducing gender issues
Activity1: And then what happened?
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: ask students to close their
eyes and start telling a story. Ask
them to imagine what you are saying.
Make a sudden break and ask them
What happened?. Ask students to
tell their endings. Ask them to paint or
draw what they imagined. The aim:
warming up, inventing, speaking and
listening skills, art
Materials: papers, paints (or crayons),
brushes
Activity2: peace signs (outside)
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: making peace signs, lying
on the floor or making a 3D image
with our bodies. The aim: promoting
peace, TPR
Activity3: Peace Event
Duration: 45 min

*15 min highs and lows; singing


Activity1: catch and clap
Duration: 15 min
Procedure: Everyone stands in a circle
and the ball is tossed around the
circle, and caught. Before you catch
the ball, you must clap once.
You can get out if you either drop the
ball, if you clap when you arent
meant to, or if you dont clap before
you catch the ball. When you are out,
you do a task like 5 squats or jump 5
times. (or anything else we come up
with) You can come back up a stage
when you do the task. The aim: a
good activity to play while people are
coming in. Warming up
Materials: A foam ball
Activity2: making cardboard dolls
Duration:45 min
Procedure: cutting out the dolls in
different colours, presenting different
races.
Materials: cardboard, scissors, glue,
markers, googly eyes, pipe cleaners

discuss, compare their rights with the


Convention. Then write, draw and
stick rights and pictures on the big
paper, including those that students
invented. The aim: talking about
rights
and
obligations.
Communicating.
Materials:laptop, A copy of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Children,
hamer paper, markers, crayons,
printable pictures, glue
Activity3: Give peace a chance
Duration: 10 min
Procedure: listening to a song, Give
peace a chance by John Lennon.
Introducing the theme of peace and
justice which will spread throughout
the week.
Materials: laptop
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Materials:Aesop's fables, finger


puppets, pictures with new vocabulary
from the stories, papers, paint and
brushes
Build-up activity: bullying
Duration:30 min
Procedure: talking about our
community our class. Recalling the
rules that we created as a team.
Talking about bullying in schools.
Watching the video. Ask the students
what would they do to prevent
bullying. Talking about community
and making friends. Writing peace
messages on the napkins.
Materials: laptop, napkins, markers or
glittering highlighters.
Activity3: Give peace a chance, again
Duration: 15 min
Procedure: listening to a song,
singing. The aim: having fun, they
can listen to it while writing peace
messages. To make students think
about peace.
Materials: laptop
*15 min highs and lows

*15 min highs and lows: introducing


the theme of environment and civic
activism
Activity1: rock band (preparing for it)
Duration: 10 min
Procedure: talk about small rocks that
we can collect and then make our own
rock band. Every student should
collect small rocks over the week and

*15 min highs and lows: talking about


ecology. How can we contribute to
our community?
Activity1: human knot (outside)
Duration: 15 min
Procedure: everyone stands in a circle
and reaches out their hands in the
middle of a circle. Then everyone
grabs unto two other people's hands
and they are in a gigantic knot. The

the students, what would they change


to make a world a better place, listen
to a song Heal the world by
Michael Jackson, show the lyrics.
Form the groups and ask them to
invent their own world on the paper.
What would they do if they had the
power? What do they and their friends
need? Can they invent any invention
that would help them survive? The
aim: talking, listening, writing skills.
Imagining.
Materials: laptop, papers, markers,
crayons
Activity3: making finger puppets
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: cut the shape out of the
cardboard, fold it, it goes in the sock.
Stuff some cotton balls inside to make
a head. Make nostrils by gluing the
holes in the sock. Make ears out of the
fabric scraps and glue them on the
sock. Use pipe cleaners to make the
horns (or hands). Glue the googly
eyes on the sock. Then ask students to
act out the stories from the previous
day. The aim: craft activity, TPR,
speaking skills, acting out
Materials: socks, pipe cleaners,
googly eyes, cardboard, scissors, glue,
markers, cotton balls, fabric scraps

Procedure: talking about the Peace


Event in Sarajevo.Making a poster
about the event, talking about what
happened. Split students into groups
and give them pictures with various
motives of peace. They can combine
those with their messages of peace in
the shape of graffiti. Ask them how
would they organize a Peace Event,
how can all of us contribute? The aim:
talking about peace and tolerance.
Speaking skills, art
Materials: printable pictures, glue,
hamer paper, markers

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Activity1: from our window


Duration: 30 min
Procedure: ask students to look
through the window and to draw/paint
what they see. Presenting their
drawings or paintings. The aim:
positive
sense
of
identity,
communicating,
noticing
the
environment.
Talking
about

Activity1: everyone who...(it can be


performed outside too)
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: everyone needs to be
sitting in a big circle on chairs. With
one person in the middle without a
chair,
this
person
introduces
themselves (name, maybe something

Activity1: rock band


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: every student should bring
their own bottles with rocks (also
buttons) in them, so we can play all
together. This activity is building on
the activity simple sounds make
great music. The aim: having fun,
playing

put them in bottles. The aim: talking


about environment, art activity
making music.
Materials: a bottle with rocks in it to
show the students
Activity2:
introducing
different
professions
Duration:30 min
Procedure: listen and watch the video
(song
People
work)
about
professions. Talking about different
institutions in our city. Where can we
find them? What are they for? (maybe
we can visit some of them) the aim:
getting to know our community,
building vocabulary
Materials: laptop, printable pictures
Activity3: building our city
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: group the students. They
should make a city model out of
cardboard, collage, play-doh with
reference to various buildings and
professions. Presenting their cities,
using the vocabulary they learnt in the
previous activity. The aim: craft
activity, spatial orientation, speaking
skills
Materials: cardboard, collage paper,
scissors, glue, play-doh, water
colours, paints, brushes, markers,
crayons, bottles
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aim: try to untie the human knot.


Team-building.
Materials: none.
Activity2: story in a bottle
Duration:60 min
Procedure: each student should make
up their own story and write it down
on a piece of paper. Roll it and put it
in the bottle. They can decorate their
bottles with markers, different kinds
of fabric, bows...they can also cut out
some pictures from magazines and
stick them on the bottles. Students can
then exchange their bottles. Then
students present the stories they got.
The aim: craft activity, writing,
reading and speaking skills
Materials:empty bottles, buttons,
wrapping paper, bows, all kinds of
fabric anything that glitters, has a
lot of colours on it!, markers, scissors,
glue, pictures, old magazines and
newspapers
*15 min highs and lows

similarities and differences.


Materials: papers, crayons, markers,
paint and brushes
Activity2: Sad flower (Sesame street)
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: watching the short video,
talking about it. Why is it sad? How
can I save the Earth? The aim:
Introducing the theme of environment
and ecology. Talking skills.
Materials: laptop, pictures
Activity3: writing a letter to any
institution in our city
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: bring real envelopes and
papers for writing letters to each
student. They can write a letter to
anyone they want to. Ask them to
think about the problems in our town,
what would they like to solve and
how. Give them some openings and
endings they can use. Ask them to
read the letters. The aim: writing the
formal letter, writing and speaking
skills
Materials: envelopes, papers, pens
*15 min highs and lows

else) and then says Everyone


who and then says something
about people, like is wearing shorts,
or likes eating chocolate. For
anyone which that statement is true
(i.e. they are wearing shorts), they
need to get up and find a new seat.
They cant sit in their own seat or one
directly next to them. At the same
time the person in the middle needs to
find a seat. Once all of the seats are
filled, there will be one person
remaining standing. This person who
is left in the middle introduces
themselves and then says Everyone
who and the game keeps going.
The
aim:
findind
similarities,
warming up.
Materials: chairs
Activity2: storycubes
Duration: 20 min
Procedure:prepare the cubes with
specific
pictures
(ecology,
environment) on them. Each student
gets 5 cubes and has to tell a story by
following the pictures. The aim:
inventing, talking skills. Talking about
ecology and our environment.
Materials: cardboard cubes with
pictures on them (I would make them)
Activity3: yarn with hands
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: prepare a piece of
cardboard with strings so that students
can weave with their hands, using
different colours. The aim: motor
activity, havin fun
Materials: yarn (different colours),
cardboard, scissors
*15 min highs and lows

Materials: bottles and rocks


Activity2: Blind guidance to the city
(outside)
Duration:45 min
Procedure: every team draws their
city on the floor outside. They will
lead each other to their cities. Before
the game begins, youll need to set up
an obstacle course for people to be
guided through. It should be about 10
metres long and should be safe
enough so that people with blindfolds
on can walk through it. To start, break
your group into pairs. Next, one
person from each pair puts a blindfold
on. The person without the blindfold
then needs to guide their partner
through the course using only
language. They are not allowed to
touch their partner, only guide with
words. Once one partner has gone
through the course, they then switch
and do it again. The aim: building
trust, speaking skills, art
Materials: blindfold, chairs, chalk
*15 min highs and lows

MIDHAT & EMILY


Activity:Group rules
Duration:30minutes
Procedure: To create group rules
which all pupils should obey
Materials:A3 poster, markers
Activity Ice breaker:Spider web-tell
us a word that describes you
Duration 10-15minutes
Procedure:each child tells a word
which describes himself/herself
Materials:thread, kids standing in a
circle, passing the thread from one to
another
Goal:kids to get familiar with each
other
Activity:A box of crayons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=H5A0AQs3SCI
Duration:30min
Procedure:Read the poem "The
Crayon Box That Talked" to your
students. It is about the different
colors getting along and liking each
other. Then, children draw their
portraits on a die-cut crayon
pattern.Place all the crayons into a
giant box of crayons that you can
create using construction paper:
Materials:crayons and a sheet of paper
Goal:All kids are equal,kids can help
in a different way
Activity:If you were an ice cream
flavor, which one would you be and
why?
Duration:15-20minutes
Procedure: each kid explains which

Activity:Ice-breaker Line
Duration:10-15min
Procedure:A line is drawn through the
classroom (or outside if the weather is
nice) and the kids are aligned on both
sides of the line. Several yes-no
questions are asked,kids with a yes
answer stand on the line
Materials:chalk, cd player
Goal: to see what kids have in
common

Activity:Ice-breaker: My breakfast
Duration:15-20min
Procedure:Children are sitting in a
circle, and each has to say what
he/she had for breakfast, while the
next kid is selected by calling his/her
name
Materials: no materials
Goal: talk about kids' home while
checking whether they have or haven't
remembered each other's name

Activity: holidays
Duration:30minutes
Procedure: each kid draws how he/she
spends their favourite holiday and
then in pairs they talk about their
holidays. In the end the holidays are
listed on the board written in various
colors
Materials: paper sheets, markers,
chalks
Goal:to introduce various holidays to
kids

Activity:If you could visit any place


in the world, where would you choose
to go and why
Duration:30minutes
Procedure: each kid writes the name
of a place which they would visit.
Then they are paired according to
continents to which the place belongs.
Then the whole group makes a mape
of the world with their places on it
Goal:to get familiar with different
places

Activity:My favourite meal- game


Line
Duration:20-25minutes
A line is drawn again. The kids are on
both sides of the line. The teacher
mentiones a meal and those who like
it come to the line.
Materials:chalk
Goal: kids to get familiar to each
other

Activity: Dancing-Happy Pharrel


Wiliams
Duration:5minutes
Procedure: dancing while listening to
the song Happy
Materials:OH projector, loudspeakers,
laptop

Activity:How To Make A Paper Fan


Duration:60minutes
Procedure:each kid takes a paper
sheet and follows the instructions of

Activity:Anthem of US, British


anthem and B&H anthem
Duration:40minutes
Procedure: While listening to
anthems, kids draw what they feel. A
task for relaxing while sharing their
emotions with others.

Activity:Candy Game
Duration:30 minutes
Procedure:Each kid takes a candy of a
particular color, each color
representing a favorite hobbie, job,
meal, best friend
Materials: candies of various color,
chalk and blackboard
Goal:kids get familiar with each other
Activity:watching a movie about
countries and nationalities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Z6cvRmyEUKc
Duration:15minutes
Procedure: Kids are sitting and
watching the movie
Material:OH projector,
laptop,loudspeakers
Goal: Introduce nationalities to
children
Activity: Dancing-Happy Pharrel
Wiliams
Duration:5minutes
Procedure: dancing while listening to
the song Happy
Materials:OH projector,
loudspeakers,laptop
Activity:Writing a postcard
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: each kids makes a
postcard of paper sheet. On the cover
should be a drawing of a city or
country from the movie.
The content of the envelope should
describe the place. Then the kids swap
postcards and read aloud postcards of
other kids.

Activity: watching a short moviesesame


streethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=24q_BZ9XYBI
Duration:15minutes
Procedure: First,we watch the short
movie and then kids talk about the
places they'd like to visit if they were
a bird.
Material:OH projector,
laptop,loudspeakers
Activity:Class flag
Duration:30minutes
Procedure: Each kid draws a flag,
then in pairs they combine their flag,
then in small groups they again
combine their flags into one, and in
the end the whole class creates the
class flag.
Materials:paper sheets, crayons,a big
poster
Activity: : Dancing-Happy Pharrel
Wiliams
Duration:5minutes
Procedure: dancing while listening to
the song Happy but the video is not
from the original song, but from B&H
Materials:OH projector,
loudspeakers,laptop
Activity: Balloon painting (outdoor
activity)
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: The whole class paints on
a large poster or on white sheet.
Balloons are filled with colour and
each student will have to amsh the

ice cream flavour he/she would be


Materials:pictures of different colors
and ice cream flavours
Activity:World Cup cultures
Duration:20-30minutes
Procedure: First,each kids writes a
name of a country from the World
Cup, then kids with the same country
are paired and draw its flag and say
something about it if they know
anything about it.
Materials: paper sheets, crayons
Goal: to become familiar with other
cultures

Activity: warm up activity: How did i


spend my weekend
Duration:15-20minutes
Procedure: each kid describes how
he/she had spent the weekend
Activity: Draw and share - peace
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students have to draw their
association on the word PEACE and
after that they have to share it with the
whole class.
Materials: paper, crayons
Activity:Peace Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=xYzwruuXtJE
Duration: 20minutes
Procedure: Kids listen to the song and
dance. They listen to the song several
times, a small competition is

the teacher how to make a paper


fan.each kid fold one part of the sheet,
then sends the sheet to the next kid
and so on.Then the kids exchange the
fans in order the other kids to draw
something on it,or to write their
names. Materials:paper sheets for all
kids, crayons,scotch tape
Goal: teach them how to make a paper
fan while showing that team work is
important
Activity: Do I like the activites- what
would i like to do?
Duration 20-30minutes
Procedure:all kids stand in a circle
and each kid says what he/she
liked/disliked about the activites
Materials:No materials
Goal: to see whether the kids are
eager to continue in the same manner
in the following day or whether some
changes should be made
Activity:Tolerance song
Duration:15minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSLlEt_LJY
Procedure: Kids first listen to the
song, then there is a small discussion
about whether they do know or not
what tolerance is. Then each kid
draws himself/herself and all portraits
are put on a big paper sheet
simbolizing unity
Materials:small paper sheets and a big
one, crayons,markers
Goal: teach kids tolerance while
getting them engaged in activities
which are created for pair and group
work
Activity: My American friend
Writing a letter to an American friend
Duration:60 minutes

Activity: Class anthem?


Duration 10-15minutes
Procedure:all kids sit in a circle and
each kid says what song he/she would
like to be our anthem. The songs are
listed on the blackboard and each kid
gives a happy or sad smiley for a
particular song.
Materials:blackboard and chalk, paper
sheets, crayons

Activity: What a wonderful world


-dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ddLd0QRf7Vg
Duration:5minutes
Procedure: Kids dance while the song
is an introducion for the activity about
tolerance
Activity:Ice breaker: World Cup and
B&H
Duration:10 minutes
Procedure:B&H has already played
their first game, so kids can talk about
their thought and opinions
Materials:no materials
Activity:Tolerance- athletes
Duration:20minutes
Procedure: Pictures of various athletes
from all over the world are shown to

Goal: to get familiar with other places


while practicing reading
Activity:guessing games-postcards
Duration:30minutes
Procedure: All postcards are put in a
box/bag and then each kid takes a
postcard and describes it to the class.
The class tries to guess whose
postcard it is.
Goal: to practice speaking and to use
adjectives

Activity: skittles or M&Ms


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: First, introduce the theme
of justice and peace, then
have each student take some skittles
or M&Ms. Tell them not to eat them.
Then ask them to tell as many facts
about themselves as many skittles
they have in their hands. When they
are done, they can eat skittles. The
aim: warming up. Talking about
modesty.
Materials:skittles
Activity: ballon or finger painting
(outside)
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: all the students paint on a
different sheet and then they paint on
a same sheet or a big paper. The aim:
having fun, art activity, warming up

balloon against the paper. This way all


of them would create a piece of art
and have fun.
Materials: poster or sheet, balloons
and water or oil colours

Activity:Ice breaker-What did i have


for breakfast? (Line)
Duration:5-10 minutes
Procedure: Kids are at the both end of
the line, those who had the same food
for breakfast come cloe to each other.
Materials: no materials
Activity:Play
Duration:30-45 minutes
Procedure:Each kid has to perform at
least one role.The play is performed,
the photographer/cameraman can
make some shots
Materials: Masks, chalk, camera,
performed in front of the school if
possible on the grass
Activity:listening and moving
Song about a horse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=W7w01EobK1M

organized. The activity is an


introduction for the next activity
Activity:Peace in the world
Duration:20minutes
Procedure: on a big paper sheet which
the teacher brings to the class, the
kids color the people which are drawn
around a circle
(Earth)http://www.abcteach.com/free/
c/childrencir.pdf
Materials: Big paper sheet, crayons
Activity: How do we say peace in
different languages?
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: teaching students to say
peace in 15 different languages. After
they learn we do the activity
'Remembering peace'..
Goals:
leaning a new words
introducing different
languages

Procedure: first,kids write letters


which they'd like to send to an
American friend. They write some
questions they'd like to ask them.
Then, the letters are collected and the
kids get back a letter, but from
someone other. Then they try to
imagine what it is like to live in a US
city (there'd be several pictures of
different US cities at the board). Then
the letters are collected again, and
each kid recieves their own letter,
with answers
Activity:Box of crayons
Duration 20 minutes
Procedure: Each kid takes one crayon.
There are four sheet for coloring. Kids
are divided in four groups, each group
gets one sheet,but not all colors
should be in one group. Then they try
to color the sheet but when they need
a color from a different group they
have to figure out a nice way of
asking for the crayon, or even to try to
persuade the kid with the crayon to
join them.
Materials:paper sheets, crayons

kids. Kids talk about their opinions


about the athletes.

Activity: Tree of tolerance


Duration 30minutes
Procedure: on the sport field behind
the school a big tree is drawn. The
branches symbolize a word related to
tolerance and nice behaviour. After all
branches are filled in, a photo is taken
while the kids are holding hands
Materials: chalk, photographer

Activity:Highs and lows of the day

Activity: Simon says


Duration:10-15 minutes
Procedure: Teacher gives
instruction/orders according to Simon
says rules, but the instructions are
about where to find an athlete of a
particular nation.(e.g.Simon says:
Find an athlete from Europe) The
activity should be played outside,
while on the sport field a map of the
world is drawn and on the map there
are pictures of athletes/countries
Materials:chalk, pictures of athletes
Activity:Activity: making cardboard
dolls
Duration:45 min
Procedure: cutting out the dolls in
different colours, presenting different
races. Pictures from the previous
activity are used as fundaments for
the puppets
Materials: cardboard, scissors, glue,
flomasters,markers

Materials: a sheet or a paper, paints


Activity: Listening- animals'
sounding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V7R_M52EAkI
Duration: 5minutes
Provedure:Kids listen to a song about
animals as a transition from one to
another activity
Activity: Reading Aesop's fables
(outside)
Duration:60 min
Procedure: reading The wolf and the
dog, The dishonest dog, The ant
and the cricket. Talking about the
content, discussing the theme of
freedom and justice in the fables.
Asking students different questions.
Build-up: acting out the fables with
the finger puppets. Asking students to
illustrate the stories with paint.
Materials:Aesop's fables, finger
puppets, pictures with new vocabulary
from the stories, papers, paint and
brushes
Activity:Performing a fablepreparation
Duration:30minutes
Procedure:The class is being prepared
to perform a fable which they had
already done in the class. The roles
are asigned to kids (a role can be
asigned to several kids). The kids
prepare themselves at home, and the
day after they would perform the play
Materials: cardboards for masks,
chalk for drawing the scene at the
sport field,
Activity:Highs and lows of the day
Duration:5-10minutes

Duration 5minutes
Procedure: Kids listen to the song and
when a certain move is mentioned in
the song, they imitate it.
Materials: cd player or OH projector

Activity:: Wizards, Elves and Giants


(outside)
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: the game is a modified
version of scissors, paper, rock. Two
teams line up against each other, and
must collectively either decide to be
wizards, giants or elves (You can
make up actions for each). On the
count of three, each team does their
action, and the winning team (elf
beats wizard, wizard beats giant, giant
beats elf) chases the other team back
to their wall and tries to tip as many
people as possible. When somebody is
tipped they then join the other team.
This process is repeated until one
team has every single person. The
aim: warming up.
Materials: none
Activity:Movie watching- Big Buck
Bunny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=akCs192RYtE
Duration:20-25 minutes
Procedure: Kids watch a short movie
about a bunny who was bullied by
three squirrels and how the bunny
solved the problem. A short, funny
cartoon
Materials: OH projector,laptop
Goal: To educate kids that violence is
not a way of solving problems.
Activity: Weekend plans
Duration 10-15minutes
Procedure: each kid talks aboout their

plans for the weekend

Activity:Ice breaker: Where do I live?


Duration 15-20 minutes
Procedure: Each kid says where they
live, which part of the town, which
street and puts a pin into the place- a
map of Sarajevo is brought to the
class
Materials: Sarajevo map,a styrofoam
board, pins in various colors
Activity:Guess who lives here
Duration:35minutes
Procedure: We use the board,magnets
and the map. A child chooses a pin
and a route from the pin point to the
school while describing how that kid
goes from home to school. Others
have to guess whose route it is.
Materials: Sarajevo map,a board,
magnets in various colors
Goal: to teach kids how to give
instructions
Activity: Trust me
Duration:25 minutes
Procedure: Kids are put in pairs. Each
pair has a leader while the other has a
blindfold. The game being played
outside, the activity is a small
competition, to see who can give the
instructions successfully ti escape the
labyrinth and whether their partner
trusts them
Materials:blindfold, chalk for driving
the path/labyrinth

Activity:Warm up- What are you


doing?
Duration:15-20minutes
Procedure:The students stand in a
circle. The first student begins by
miming an action or activity, such as
playing golf. The student to his right
asks, "What are you doing?" and the
first student replies with something
random, such as "I'm shaving." The
second student must then adopt that
action (in this case, shaving) while the
third student asks, "What are you
doing?" and then that student answers
with something random, such as,
"Dancing the hula." The game
continues until you get back around to
the first student.
Activity: Our environment
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: students will talk about
and draw their way to school and
what they are passing by every day.
After this we will together create
windows from buildings and each
student will place drawing of their
home into one window.
Materials: paper and colours
Activity:Pluto at the zoo
Cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SBYcadBPQ70
Duration:25minutes

Activity: human knot (outside)


Duration: 15 min
Procedure: everyone stands in a circle
and reaches out their hands in the
middle of a circle. Then everyone
grabs unto two other people's hands
and they are in a gigantic knot. The
aim: try to untie the human knot.
Team-building.
Materials: none.
Activity:Buildings and institutions
around the school
Duration:30 minutes
Procedure:Kids are put in groups.
Then in groups they try to identify
major buildings around the school
(Church, Alta, Bank,Holiday Inn, bus
and train station,etc)
Materials: sheets and pens
Goal: get kids familiar with their
environment.
Activity:energizer 911
Duration:20minutes
Procedure:
1. Review with the students how to
make a 911
call.(modify to dial B&H emergency
numbers)
2. Have students use their bodies to
make shapes
of 9 - 1 - 1 while chanting 911!
3. Review fire safety: what are the
things we all

Activity:What did i dream?


Duration:10-15 minutes
Procedure: Each kid talks about what
they have dreamt about
Materials:no materials
Activity: making finger puppetsmake puppets for each profession
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: cut the shape out of the
cardboard, fold it, it goes in the sock.
Stuff some cotton balls inside to make
a head. Make nostrils by gluing the
holes in the sock. Make ears out of the
fabric scraps and glue them on the
sock. Use pipe cleaners to make the
horns (or hands). Glue the googly
eyes on the sock. Then ask students to
act out the stories from the previous
day. Materials: socks, pipe cleaners,
googly eyes, cardboard, scissors, glue,
marker, cotton balls, fabric scraps
Goal: craft activity, TPR, speaking
skills, acting out
Activity: Energizer Students will
act out the following fitness song.
On the first day of fitness, my trainer
gave to me
Duration:15minutes
There are several exercises each day it
is possible to perform several ones
12 jumping jacks
11 raise the roofs
10 knee lifts

Activity:Line- what am i wearing?


Duration:10-15minutes
Procedure:Game Line is already
described, but now the teaches says
something like: I wear a blue shirt and
those with a blue shirt come to the
line,etc.
Materials: chalk to draw the line
Goal: to warm up the kids
Activity:Movie making- exhibition
Duration:60minutes
Procedure: Project cameraman makes
a clip about what kids have done
during the project. Kids are put in
groups, and each group presents a
particular activity or set of activities.
Also put the class flag and anthem in
the clip
Materials: all materials used through
the project
Goal: create a clip of the whole class
Activity: World Cup talks
Duration:30minutes
Procedure:Talk about the World Cup
while using the vocabulary and terms
learnt through the project
Materials: All materials used through
the project
Activity:Goodbye envelope
Duration:20-30 minutes
Procedure: On a classroom wall
envelopes with names of each kid is
put. Other kids write tnotes with

need to know in order to survive a


fire?
Practice crawling under the smoke at
least 30 seconds
Practice stop, drop and roll (using
space
available) several times
4. Review storm safety procedures:
Practice moving away from windows
Practice covering their heads
Procedure: First, the kids watch the
movie and then we talk about our zoo
and whether they have visited it.
Materials:OH projector, loudspeakers,
laptop
Activity:High and lows of the day
Duration:10-15 minutes

Activity:On the farm


Duration:10 minutes
Procedure:Teacher will call out
various farm animals;Students will
mimic the farm animal (sounds
and movement) until teacher calls out
a new
farm animal.

Materials:desks,chairs, classroom
Activity: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: talking about our own
culture, Making an individual
picture/drawing of B&H. The aim:
drawing skills, art activity, learning
about our culture, appreciating it.
Materials: printable pictures, hamer
paper, markers, glue
Activity: introducing different
professions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ORGLQudvMWE
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: listen and watch the video
(song People work) about
professions. Talking about different
professions in our city. Where can we
find them? What are they for?
Goal: getting to know our community,
building vocabulary
Materials: laptop, printable pictures

EMINA & ANDREA

9 side stretches
8 jogs in place
7 jabs/punches
6 kicks to the front
5 hula hoops
4 jumping ropes (imaginary rope)
3 muscle poses
2 scissors (feet apart then cross in
front, feet
apart then cross in back)
1 stork stand (balance on one foot)
Activity:Puppets play
Duration: 40 minutes
Procedure:Kids are divided in groups
of 5. First,they create a play, then they
present it to the rest of the class.
Materials: Puppets from the earlier
activity
Goal: trigger imagination, teamwork

positive sides of the kid, so that all


kids would have a nice memory of the
project

15 minutes warm welcome and


introduction
***
Activity: REMEMBERING
NAMES
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: This is a circle activity;
each student has to say its own name
and the name of the previous student.
Say your name and then hand the ball
off, rotating the ball clockwise around
the circle. The next student says your
name, his name, and then hands off
the ball to the next student. That
student says your name, the previous
student's name, and then his name.
When this is done the students choose
whom to give the ball saying the other
persons name, and after this the circle
gets scrambled so that everybody
changes its spot and this way students
check whether they have remembered
their colleagues and the names. The
activity is played with foam ball, but
any other object can be used.
Goals
Students will improve their listening
skills.
Students will build classroom
community.
Students will learn each other's
names.
Material: foam ball
Activity: Think Pair Share
Duration: 40 minutes
Writing part: 5- 10 minutes
Speaking part: 25 35 minutes
Procedure:Each student is given a 4 x
6 Index card. They are to write:
Name; Something they like to do;
What they did last summer; Intended
Major; Favourite Food, Book,
Superhero. Your Choice! Share what

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: M&M activity
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Each students grabs
differently coloured M&Ms. They
cannot eat them. Every colour stands
for something e.g. green family,
blue hobbies, red school
However many M&Ms they have in
their hands, that is how many facts
they have to tell. E.g. if they have 3
blue, they would have to say three
facts about their hobbies.
Materials: M&Ms, Fru-Fru candies
Activity: The Line (outdoor
activity)
Duration: 15 20 minutes
Procedure: This activity is meant to
build community spirit and the
questions would match our topics.
E.g. do you like travelling? This
would be a hint that we are to learn
about continents and other cultures.
Materials: chalk or Scotch tape
Activity: Alphabet Memory
Duration: 30 minutes
Speaking: 15 minutes
Writing: 15 minutes
Presenting the story: 15 minutes
Procedure: Instead of alphabet we
would use starting letters of our
names. E.g. students A says A stands
for apple, action etc., and each
students has to do the same with their
starting letter.
After everyone said something the
whole class has to create a story out
of the words mentioned in the game.
The group can be divided into two
teams or more teams in order for the
class to get more different stories.
Goals:

15 minutes - circle time


***
Activity: Secret Dancer (outdoor
activity)
Duration: 35 minutes
Procedure: After playing a few rounds
of this icebreaker, everyone will be
feeling much more comfortable with
each other in your group. Everyone
stands in a circle and a detective is
chosen. The job of the detective is to
find the secret dancer. Once the
detective has left the room, the secret
dancer is chosen. They then start
dancing their favourite dance move,
and everyone copies them. The
detective comes back in the room,
into the centre of the circle, and they
have to try and find the secret dancer.
The secret dancer then needs to
change the dance move, and everyone
needs to change with them as quickly
as possible. The detective then tries to
guess who the secret dancer is. They
get three guesses, if they dont guess,
the secret dancer wins!
Materials: music

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: This is really important to
me
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: Each students brings an
object which is of importance to them
and presents a story behind it to the
whole class.
Goals:
creating
a
relaxing
atmosphere in the class,
meeting each other,
practicing speaking

Activity: Pipe Cleaners


Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Have people take a pipe
cleaner and use it to form into
something that represents who they
are. (Something that they are good at,
they like to do, about their family,
etc.) It can be an actual representation
or symbolic one. When they are done,
have them walk around and pair up
with someone and try to guess each
others shape. Then pull the group
together and have people share.
Materials: pipe cleaners

Activity: Never have I ever


Duration: 15 20 minutes
Procedure: Everyone sits in a circle
and take turns saying something they
have never done. Each player starts
with ten fingers showing. Each time
says something that youve done, you
drop a finger. The goal is to be the last
player remaining.

Activity: React and Act


Duration: 20-30 minutes

Activity: Balloon painting (outdoor


activity)
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: The whole class paints on
a large poster or on white sheet.
Balloons are filled with colour and
each student will have to smash the
balloon against the paper. This way all
of them would create a piece of art
and have fun.
Materials: poster or sheet, balloons
and water or oil colours

Activity: Change Three Things


Duration: 10- 15 minutes
Procedure: Form pairs. After looking
each other over, both partners stand
back-to-back. Then each changes
three things about their appearance.
Each partner tries to figure out what

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Vocabulary brainstorming
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students are shown a
photography or postcard or picture
and they have to say as many words
they can think of.
Goals:
teaching and learning new
vocabulary
materials: photos
Activity: Story telling
Duration: 20 30 minutes
Procedure: The teachers and the
students tell a random story together.
This activity can be played in two
ways; students can create their ending
after the teacher suddenly finishes the
story or even draw what they
imagined, and the whole class can be
active because the teacher may tell the
story but suddenly ask students to
complete the sentence.
Goal:
practicing speaking and
listening
team building
Materials: paper and crayon pencils
Activity: Cartoon and acting
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: The class is divided into 4
groups. Each group is given small
cartoon with empty speech bubbles.
They have to fill in the speech
bubbles and act it out.
Materials: cartoons and pens
Activity: The Talent Show
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Everyone selects one
talent or special gift that they possess
and can demonstrate for the group.

each has written. Each person will


introduce their partner to the groups
indicating what they have learned
about that person.
Goals:
students will meet each
other better,
building
classroom
community
and
new
friendships
improving speaking and
writing skills
Materials: paper and pen
ACTIVITY: Our rules and our
obligations
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: Together as a class we
create the rules which will be valid
during the whole project
Materials: paper and pen (different
colours)
***
Circle time 15: closure and summary
of the first day + asking students what
they would like to do?

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Your ship is sinking
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: A survivor activity for
revising
personal
characteristics
vocabulary and subsequent discussion
on who to save. There has been an
explosion on your ship. Your ship is
sinking! There is only one lifeboat.
There is a small, deserted island about
10 kilometres away but the ocean is
filled with sharks. You must choose
who will go with you in the life boat

class cooperation,
storytelling,
improving speaking
writing skills
Materials: paper and pen

and

Activity: Describe and Draw


Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: the class is divided into
pairs. One of the students can see is
given a photo while the other students
cannot see it. the first students must
describe and give instructions to the
second students so that the seconds
students draw the photo.
Alternative to this activity: student
gets a card with the item (word) he
has to draw. He draws it on the
blackboard in front of the whole class
but with his eyes covered.
Goals:
practicing listening skills
learning how to give
instructions
Materials: photos, cards, board and
chalk
***
15 minutes closing circle time
15 minutes circle time
***
Activity: Lost on a deserted island
Duration: 20- 30 minutes
Procedure: Given the scenario that
everyone is lost and stranded on a
deserted island, each person describes
one object that they would bring and
why. Each person is allowed to bring
one object to the island ideally
something that represents them or
something that they enjoy. The first
part of this icebreaker is simple: each
person is asked to describe what

Procedure: Players randomly select a


sheet of paper that has an occurrence
on it (for example, winning a million
dollars in the lottery) and they must
react to the occurrence using animated
expressions, gestures, and words.
After a set amount of time, other
players try to guess what happened
that caused those reactions and
actions.
Materials paper, pens, and a bag or a
box
Activity: Nonverbal Birthday Lineup
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Procedure: each students tells us its
birthday date. Everyone must listen
carefully. After everybody tells dates,
ask everyone to line up according to
the month and day of birth without
talking. Later a class poster of
birthdays can be created.
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Flags guessing game
Duration: 15 20 30 minutes
Procedure: students are shown flags
of different countries and they have to
guess which country is it? Also who
guesses has to say something they
know of that country. After this they
can design a classroom flag. Making a
classroom flag can be done as a
collage or painting and it can be done
outside. Also every student can design
its own personal flag and when doing

They introduce themselves, explain


what their special talent is, and then
perform their special talent for the
group.

was changed. The fun part of this


activity is to continue changing things
for about 7 - 10 rounds.
Goal: teaching persistence
***
15 minutes circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Choose a city
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Students think about and
discuss a city they would like to live
in for a year. Put the names of these
cities up on the board and ask students
to get into small groups and share any
information they know about the
cities. Tell the students to imagine that
they are going to live and work in one
of those cities for a year. Tell the
students to work in groups and think

Activity: Europe discussion


Duration: 20 25 minutes Procedure:
watching movies about Europe,
talking about culture differences
across Europe, playing European
music in different languages from
every country a song. Students
drawing associations on songs and
trying to guess where from the song
is. Materials: paper, crayon colours,
music, photos of Europe, (power point
presentation)
Activity: English cities word
search puzzle
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: students are to find all
cities in puzzle. This can be done
individually or in pairs.
Goal:
to see how many cities there
are in England
learn new cities.
Materials: word search puzzle
***
15 minutes closing circle time
15 minutes circle time
***
Activity: Tourist conversation
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: Showing kids a big picture
where tourists are presented talking,
the task is to create a conversation.
They are divided into groups and each
group has a task to create
conversation. After they create
conversation they have to act it out. It
is about tourism and it would be like
warm up activity for introducing the
tourism and what we could/would like

to the island.
Materials: paper
Activity: Who is this?
Duration: 20 minutes
Students are shown 5 different photos
of 5 people from different continents.
They have to answer the questions
like: who is this? What is his/her job?
What did he/she eat this morning?
Etc.
Materials: pictures, paper and pen
Activity: America and our culture discussion
Duration: 20- 30 minutes
Procedure: Music students will
listen to different music types and
they have to draw their ideas and tell
us what they think of and similar. We
also talk about our music and what
they like to listen? Music from
different countries is played and
students have to guess the country.
And then we ask them what is culture
for them and what would they send to
America of our culture. For this we
will have a small box or paper bag
into which students will put their
culture post. Collecting of cultural
items will last during the whole week
till Friday. During this students are
presented a video Love Generation Bob Sinclair which shows different
landscapes from America and is about
world cup. This video will be our
introduction for the small discussion
about world cup. Latter students are
shown another video of the same song
just having inserts from the 2006
football world cup.
Materials: music, movie clips, paper,
pen, paper bag, box,
Activity: Story in papers

object they would bring and why. This


need not be realistic; if someone loves
music, he or she might choose to
bring a guitar, or an animal lover
might choose to bring a dog, a food
lover might choose to bring sirloin
steaks, and so on. Encourage people
to be creative. After everyone has
introduced their object and why they
have chosen that object, the
teambuilding portion follows. Divide
into smaller groups and ask everyone
to work together to improve their
chances of survival by combining the
various objects that they introduced.
Materials: paper
Activity: Who is this?
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: The same activity but this
time it would be only about people
and their traditional clothing. Students
are also given 5 different pictures
presenting different style. They have
to guess which country/continent the
style belongs. Also during this activity
we would mainly focus on Africa
since each continent gets a day in a
week. After this they create their own
style dolls on paper working with
different materials and when finished
they have to present their work.
Materials: paper, different sewing
materials, pipe cleaners, googly eyes
Activity: How to say hello in 15
languages
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: each student will learn
how to say differently hello, but this
would only be the introductory part
since this activity would be practiced
and done many times later on.
Activity: Visit/ Our travelling map

so they have to present it to the


classroom however they want to.
Goal: teach kids at least 10 flags
Materials: flags, poster, colours,
pictures
Activity: Wavin flag - gap fill quiz
+ outdoor dance
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: Listen to the song,
complete the missing gaps, learn the
song sing it and create a choreography
Materials: song and paper sheets
Activity: Karaoke singing
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: students are presented 5
songs and then they choose the one
they like best. Then the students learn
and sing karaoke song e.g. Wavin
Flag or any other song about the
world cup (it can be their choice). The
class can be divided into two teams
and both teams have to learn to sing
karaoke version of the song. The
activity can be modified so that each
team must learn a different song.
Materials: songs and music
Activity: About Australia discussion
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students are presented
with Australian music, animals all
of this in a form of presentation
(power point)
Goal:
getting to know better
Australian continent
improving speaking skills
Activity: Which city is this?
Duration 15 - 20 minutes
Procedure: in the magic box there are
piece of paper with names of cities.

about things they would like to know


about each city before they decide
which one to go to. The things
students may think of could include:
standard of living, job possibilities,
type of housing, things to do and see,
climate,
geographical
location
(distance from sea, mountains),
family connections with a place,
language etc. Once they have had
time to think of a few criteria, get the
students to share their ideas with the
class and write a few of the most
important ones on the board.
Materials: chalk and board
Activity: Secret Identity
Duration 20- 30 minutes
Procedure: the class is divided into 10
pairs. Each pair picks a paper with
basic information out of which they
have to create a new identity. They
present it to the classroom through
different way, painting, telling,
interview
Materials: paper with information
Activity: How to say hello in 15
languages
Duration: 20 minutes
Making a choreography for our 15
different hellos and perfecting them.
Activity: Asia and Europe
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure:
discussion
about
differences among these continents.
Associations: What is it that you think
when someone says Spain? Draw and
tell us why? Sharing information that
we know and dont know about
places. Playing music from different
countries in Asia and students are to
draw associations, or present them
using pipe cleaners and share with the

to see in some the country. Then we


would talk about our country and
touristsights in our country.
Goals:
improving speaking skills
team building
practicing the conversation
patterns
Activity: The Line - Food (outdoor
activity)
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: The line activity this
time we are talking only about food
and what each of us likes to eat. This
an introduction into the discussion
about
different
food
around
continents.
Activity: Posters of each continent
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: the class is divided into 5
groups. Each group makes a poster
about one continent.
Materials: poster papers, pens,
scissors, glue, photos, magazines
(National Geographic)
Activity: Have you ever felt like
Alice in Wonderland?
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: Students are presented
with an excerpt from the movie Alice
in Wonderland and a paragraph from
the novel. After they see it everyone
in the class shares their own
experience when did he/she feel like
Alice in Wonderland or what would
Wonderland be for them?
Materials: movie clip and novel
excerpt
***
15 minutes closing circle time

Each student has to pick one and try


to describe the city and the group tries
to guess.
Materials: magic box and papers
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: The class is divided into
2teams each team got full bag of
papers with one or two sentences or
with full paragraphs and they have to
line the story in order and then present
it through acting or in some other
way.
Materials: paper, pens
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Draw and share - peace
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students have to draw their
association on the word PEACE and
after that they have to share it with the
whole class.
Materials: paper, pens
Activity: I am an only child
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: 1. Each person tried to
think of something unique about
themselves, something no one can
claim. This unique aspect makes them
an "Only Child."
2. One person begins. "I'm an Only
Child because...." (completes
statement)
3. If the statement is unique, continue
to next student. (Discuss statement as
desired.)

Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students are given an
empty poster of world map. They get
different crayon colours and each
student must draw or put some
symbol where they would like to go
and they have to explain why. This
way the class spirit would deepen and
we would create our traveling map.
Material: empty world map and
crayon colours
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Peace messages
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Each student would get a
small piece of paper and they would
write on it peace message they would
send to the world. When this is done,
all of the messages would be gathered
and we would make an album of our
peace notes
Materials: paper, glue, decorating
ribbons
Activity: What is this?
Duration: 20- 30 minutes
Procedure: there are different objects
placed in a bag. Student has to
describe and guess what it is without
looking at it having eyes covered.
Every student would do this. But
when describing the rest of the class
would help by saying HOT or COLD.

Activity: Culture Corner


Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: students are given texts of
different stories from different
countries and they have to guess to
which country the story belongs. Or
students can be presented with photos
from different countries and the
procedure is the same. Latter when
they finish guessing we discuss the
photos and stories.
Goals:
practicing reading skills
learning new vocabulary
***
15 minutes closing circle time
15 minutes circle time
***
Activity: Two Truths and a Lie
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Each group member
shares two things about themselves
that are true and one thing that is a lie.
The rest of the group tries to guess
which is the untrue statement
Activity: If you had the power to
change something, what would you
change?
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: each students says what
they would change and why.
Goal: improving speaking skills and
killing the fear of sharing opinion
Activity: Story Time Game
Duration: 20 30 minutes
Procedure: The facilitator starts a
story by saying a sentence. It then

class.
Materials: paper and crayon colours,
pipe cleaners
Activity: HAIKU
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: students see a photo and
they have to write a haiku pome based
on the photo. Students will be given 5
different photos and they have to
write 5 different poems. This can also
be done in pairs or groups.
Goals:
learning how to write haiku
poetry and what haiku is
materials: paper, pen, photos
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Imagine
Duration: 15 - 20 minutes
Procedure: practicing the Imagine
song
Activity: Peace sign poster
Duration: 20 - 25 minutes
Procedure: making a big PEACE sing
using bottle plugs
Materials: paper and plugs
Activity: Peace song
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: students are writing our
peace poem/song
Materials: paper and pen
Activity: Charlotte's Web
Duration: 25 30 minutes
Procedure: watching some inserts
from the movie, reading some parts

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: School around the world
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: students are presented with
different brochures of continents
presenting schools. After they look at
it they will be divided into groups and
they will create their own school for
that continent and the kids they read
about. During the activity students are
also shown a small clip from the film
School of Rock for the discussion:
What do they think of that teacher and
the school in the film?
Goals:
practising speaking skills
building team spirit
Materials: paper and colour pens,
movie clips UNICEF brochures
Activity: WakaWaka gap fill quiz
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: Listen to the song,

After this we would have a discussion


on childrens rights and we would try
to make a poser on unique rights for
every child
Activity: Imagine
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students will hear the song
by John Lennon imagine. Their task is
to draw what they like to imagine or
what the song evoked in them. They
share and then the whole class can
create a unique story revolving around
everyones imagination or draw a
huge Imagine poster.
Materials: paper and colours
Activity:
Imagine
a
world
without
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: each students must draw
their impression when teacher says a
sentence like: Imagine a world
without bicycles/cars/trees students
must draw 10 drawings on 10
sentences.
Materials: paper and colourful pens
***
15 minutes closing circle time

HOT when the student is on right


track and COLD when opposite. This
would be a relaxing activity.
Materials: bag, object, band for eyes
Activity: Tolerance poster (outdoor
activity)
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: the poster would consist of
students palms in different colours.
Through this the accent would be on
tolerating the difference and enjoying
it. This would be a team building
activity.
Materials: poster and tempera
Activity: Goodbye Envelope
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: students write a short
goodbye message describing their
experience or friends they met during
the project.
Materials: colourful papers, colourful
pens
***
15 minutes closing circle time

goes in a circle, each person adding a


sentence onto the story - after
repeating each sentence that's already
been added. This time the story would
be about tolerance and peace.
Goals:
improving memory
testing their flexibility
presenting these two topics
in a funny way.
Activity: Tolerance Tree poster
Duration: 40 minutes
Procedure: each student has to choose
a word that represents tolerance for
them or write a tolerance message.
Then the students draw together the
tolerance tree with a lot of branches
where they place their words and
sayings. The tree would look even
better if painted in different colour.
Goals:
building a team spirit
learning new vocabulary
materials: paper poster, crayon
colours, markers, glue, scissors,
tempera
***
15 minutes closing circle time

from the novel, talking about


friendship and individuality, acting
out our favourite scene from the film.
Answering the questions like: what is
friendship for you and what is
individuality for you? The students
can
be
given
a
task
to
describe/explain these two words
friendship and individuality in only
three words.
Materials: movie clips, novel excerpts
Activity: Weave a Web
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Students can design a web
using straws or craft sticks. Cross
them so there are six spokes. Use yarn
to spin a web in and out and around
the sticks. The longer the spokes, the
bigger the web will be. Make a spider
out of pipe cleaners and add a few
bugs to the web or add messages like
friendship, etc.
Materials: yarn, pipe cleaners
Activity: Charlottes Web word
search
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Students get word search
sheets to find the words warm up
activity
Materials: word-search sheets
Activity: With the right words you
can change the world
Duration: 15minutes
Procedure: students are to think about
the right words with which they
would change the world.
Goal: learning new vocabulary
***
15 minutes closing circle time

complete the missing gaps, learn the


song sing it and create a choreography
Materials: song and paper sheets
Activity: How do we say peace in
different languages?
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: teaching students to say
peace in 15 different languages. After
they learn we
do modified
'Remembering names' activity which
is now 'Remembering peace'.
Procedure is the same as for
remembering names.
Goals:
leaning a new words
introducing different
languages
Activity: Pompons
Duration: 30 minutes
Procedure: students are presented the
procedure of making pompons. each
students makes differently coloured
pompon.
Goals:
learning about tolerance
using different colours to
make the same thing
teaching students new
handicraft
Materials: wool, carton, scissors
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Our environment
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: students will talk about
and draw their way to school and
what they are passing by every day.
After this we will together create
windows from buildings and each
student will place drawing of their
home into one window.
Materials: paper and colours
Activity: Find me
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: student hides himself
somewhere in our near environment
and the rest of the group tries to find
him. He is giving them instructions by
saying turn left, turn right etc.
Activity: Karaoke singing repeated
with different song
Activity: Saying Hello
Duration: 15 20 minutes
Procedure:
practicing
our
choreography and saying Hello in
different languages
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Bosnia
Duration: 20 30 minutes
Procedure: students watch a movie
about Bosnian country side and
natural wonders. After this we have a
discussion. And then they are asked to
share what they would change in our
country and why.
Materials: film or presentation
Activity: Write a letter
Duration: 20 30 minutes
Procedure: Students are to write a
letter to an imaginary friend in the
world about Bosnia and why do they
like Bosnia and why they should visit
and see in Bosnia. Then they can read
the letter. Alternative to this would be
Message in a Bottle where students
would write a short message about
Bosnia. Then we would create our
bottle containing many messages.
Same can be done with peace
messages that wed like to send to the
world. Every student would have to
write a message containing only 5 7
sentences using chosen words or
adjectives.
Goals:
learning how to write short
messages
practicing writing letters
writing messages from
given words
Materials: papers, colouring pencils,
small paper leaflets and bottle
***
15 minutes closing circle time

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: Environmental changes
discussion
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: talking with students about
global environmental changes. How
would they stop the problems and
similar. Showing the presentation or
short movie clips of environmental
changes or natural disasters.
Materials:
movie
clips
and
presentation
Activity: What a wonderful world
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students hear the song by
Louis Armstrong. After that they have
to draw the wonderful world and
share with the class.
Materials: song, paper and colours
Activity: Saying Hello
Duration: 15 20 minutes
Procedure:
practicing
our
choreography and saying Hello in
different languages
***
15 minutes closing circle time

JASENKA & PATRICK

15 minutes circle time


***
Activity: From our window
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: students draw their
environment but only what they see
from the window. Everyone will have
different poster
Materials: paper and colours
Activity: A story in a jar
Duration: 20 25 minutes
Procedure: each student can put a
small object e.g. button or a piece of
paper with a note into a jar. When
everyone has done that the class
isdivided into 4 groups or pairs and
they have to create a storyaccording
to the objects from a jar about the
experience during the ABC project.
This can also be done individually.
Goals:
sharing our experiences
learning how to tell a story
from small amount of
material and about a
specific topic
Materials: jar, paper, buttons, colours,
Activity: Saying Hello
Duration: 15 20 minutes
Procedure:
practicing
our
choreography and saying Hello in
different languages. Our final
rehearsal
***
15 minutes closing circle time

Activity:
Duration:
Procedure:
Materials:

Activity: Circle of Introduction


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Everyone says their name,
something about themselves and
introduces a move, everyone repeats
the names with the moves
Materials: /
Goal: Introductory activity
Activity: Call My Bluff
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone writes 3
sentences about themselves, one of
them is a lie and the other students
need to guess which one is it.
Materials: Paper
Goal:
Team-building,
practicing
speaking and listening skills
Activity: 10 Things I do Well
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone writes ten things
they do well and we hang the lists on
wall, short discussion after a list
Materials: Paper and Scotch Tape
Goal: Team-building, Improving
confidence, Introduction
Activity: Class Rules
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: Discussion and making a
poster with rules
Materials: One piece of flip chart
paper, markers
Goal: Team-building, speaking and
writing skills
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: The Sun Shines


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Everyone sits in circle, one
of the chairs is removed and one
person stands in the middle saying
statement like "The sun shines on all
those wearing blue shirts", all students
for whom the statement is true get up
and try to find a new seat, the
remaining person is the new
moderator.
Materials: chairs
Goal: Energizer, introductory game,
team-building,
speaking
skills
exercise
Activity: Amina's Story
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: We read the story to
students and ask them to answer a few
questions on pieces of paper, then we
read the alternate version. Followed
by a discussion.
Materials: /
Goal: Warming up students for further
exercise, practicing listening and
speaking skills
Activity: The Line
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: We draw/tape a line on the
floor with statements and tell the
students to stand on the right if they
agree, on left if they disagree, and in
between if they believe both, or
neither, or somewhat agree. Each of
the statements is followed by a short
discussion.
Materials: duct tape/chalk, can be
done in the yard too
Goal:
Discussing
prejudice,
practicing listening, reading and
speaking skills
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,

Activity: The Knot


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Everyone stands in a circle
and reaches out their hands in the
middle of a circle. Then everyone
grabs unto two other people's hands
and they are in a gigantic knot
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer, team-building
Activity: Blue Bananas
Duration: 40 minutes
Procedure: Students are split in pairs,
A students get handout A, B students
get B. They are instructed to read it
and to negotiate in pairs who will get
the blue bananas. Once negotiation is
over discussion ensues.
Materials: Handouts (even number of
A and B handouts)
Goal: developing communication
skills, reading and speaking skills
Activity: Culture Corner
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: Students will watch short
videos and read short texts about USA
and UK, hear short presentation from
Patrick, and write short texts
Materials: laptop, handouts
Goal: familiarization with other
culture, practicing listening and
speaking skills, practicing writing
skills
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: Mazinga
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: One person stands in circle
and makes a move turning around
yelling Maaaaaazinga and everyone to
which he points does the same, when
the circle is over everyone jumps and
yells Mazinga!
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer
Activity: Schools around the World
Duration: 100 min
Procedure: Students can see images
and read short texts about students in
different countries, debate. Students
are then divided in groups and write a
similar text about them and about
B&H schools.
Materials: laptop, papers and pens,
markers
Goal: developing speaking and
reading skills, gaining the sense of
global citizenship
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: Human Bingo


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Students take handouts
and try to find a person for each of
the sentences (e.g. This person has
blue eyes/was born in May/has a
dog/likes to eat pancakes). The 1 st
person to finish yells BINGO! A
small prize can be ensured (bag of
candy or similar)
Materials: Handouts, a bag of candy
or other prize
Goal: Team-building, energizer,
practicing asking questions
Activity: Children's Rights
Duration: 100 min
Procedure:
Discussion
and
presentations of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, activities
such as cutting and pasting images
with different rights,
drawing,
writing short texts and playing out
certain scenes for some of the rights
Materials: handouts, glue, scissors,
laptop, paper, pens and markers, one
flip chart paper
Goal: learning about human rights,
developing
listening,
reading,
speaking and writing skills, learning
vocabulary related to the topic
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense
of community

relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of


community
Activity: As If
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: The moderator says a
series of directions such as: Run as if
a bear is chasing you, stretch as if
your back hurts, etc.
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer
Activity: Our Town 1
Duration: 100 min
Procedure: Students are divided in
groups and receive instructions, each
groups discusses and makes rules of
their imaginary town, how it will look
like, the infrastructure, laws,etc. Then,
they create posters presenting their
town with all the institutions and laws.
Materials: Flip chart papers, paper,
markers, duct tape
Goal: Practicing speaking, listening
and writing skills; applying what was
learned about institutions and human
rights.
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: The Zoo


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Each student takes a piece
of paper from a hat/bowl/etc. on
which s/he can read a name of an
animal. The task is to produce the
sound that animal makes and to find
other students who are doing the same
(with closed eyes).
Materials: pieces of paper, best if
played in the yard
Goal: Energizer, team-building
Activity: Our Town 2
Duration: 100 min
Procedure: Finishing up posters,
arranging presentation, presenting
their projects. Discussion about the
exercise
and
discussing
the
institutions and laws if the whole
group founded a new town.
Materials: Materials from the previous
day
Goal: Practicing speaking, listening
and writing skills; applying what was
learned about institutions and human
rights; creative skills; practicing
public
speaking
and
giving
presentations.
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: Who/What Am I?
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: We tape a name of a
famous person/or of an object/animal
on the forehead or back of each
student, with a series of questions the
task is for everyone to guess
who/what they are.
Materials: soft duct tape, markers
Goal:
Team-building,
exercise,
practicing asking questions
Activity: Boys Don't Cry!
Duration: 100 min
Procedure: First, we will conduct a
statement game similar to the line, on
topics of gender equality, stereotypes
and discrimination. Then, Students are
divided in groups to create a skit for
the statement they received. Each
group presents the skit, debate ensues.
Materials: papers
Goal: Learning about gender equality,
prejudice and stereotypes, and
discrimination; developing listening,
reading and speaking skills.
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: The Machine


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Everyone adds up to create
a complex machine, everyone makes a
move and a sound distinct for them
selves
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer, team-building
Activity: Time Capsule
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: Students will discuss what
the modern society looks like
(technology, globalization, etc.), and
how they think the world will look
like in 100 years. Then we will
write/draw/create what we want to
leave to the future people as
something worth keeping and we will
send them a message.
Materials: Shoe box, scissors, papers,
markers, glue, duct tape
Goal: developing speaking skills;
working on arts and crafts; teambuilding
Activity: Poetry writing
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: Students will be presented
with haiku poetry and other short
forms, then we will write poems both
individually and collectively
Materials: papers and pens, laptop
Goal: improving writing skills,
learning new vocabulary and making
connections with previously learned,
developing literacy
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,

Activity: Mime a Lie


Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure:Everyone stands in a
circle and the moderator starts by
miming an action. When the person
on their right says their name and
asks What are you doing?, they
reply that they are doing something
completely different. The person to
the facilitators right then has to
mime what the facilitator said that
they
were doing, while saying that they
are doing something completely
different.
Materials: /
Goal: energizer, team-building
Activity:
Drawing
as
Described/Instructed
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: A moderator will draw a
picture, describing what s/he is
drawing, while other student/s will
draw as instructed/described.
Materials: flip chart paper, paper,
pens and markers
Goal: practicing listening skills and
speaking
skills
(instructions,
descriptions, spacial relations), teambuilding
Activity: World Cafe
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: Students will move
between different stations in small
groups, in a few minutes they have to
perform each of the tasks (writing,
acting, singing, dancing, etc)
Materials: paper, pens and markers,
laptop
Goal: developing reading and writing
skills, developing speaking and
writing skills, developing creativity
Activity: Highs and Lows

relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of


community

Activity: 20 Questions
Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure:A moderator thinks of a
person/object/abstract and the group
tries to guess what s/he is thinking of
in less than 20 questions.
Materials: /
Goal: energizer, practicing asking
questions and making connections
between
terms,
developing
metalinguistic abilities as students
start to think of categories to make the
guessing easier
Activity: Finish the Story
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: Students get a handout
with the first half of story written,
they are instructed to write a finish for
the story. Students present what they
wrote and a short discussion ensues.
Materials: handouts
Goal: discussing bullying and
violence; developing reading, writing
and speaking skills.
Activity: Personal Timeline
Duration: 45 min
Procedure: Students draw a timeline
on a piece of paper and present
important events in their life, short
discussion ensues and Q&A segment.
Materials: papers (A3 or A4) and pens
Goal: team-building,
developing
writing and speaking skills
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities

Activity: Simon Says


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: A moderator gives
instructions using "Simon says..."
formulation and everyone must do
what is said.
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer, practicing speaking
skills
Activity: Sports
Duration: 80 min
Procedure: Discussion about different
sports, which sports are played in
different countries, who are famous
people associated with sports,
competitions
and
the
World
Championship in soccer. Students will
listen to songs related to sports, learn
one song, make posters and give
presentations,
Materials: laptop, papers, markers and
pens
Goal:
Learning
vocabulary,
developing speaking, listening and
writing skills, learning about different
cultures
Activity: KISS (Keep it Short and
Simple)
Duration: 25 min
Procedure: Students will draw a piece
of paper from hat/bowl/box and will
be paired up. Each student has 30 sec
to persuade the other student to
buy/get/learn/etc. Something they are
advertising.
Materials: pieces of paper
Goal: developing speaking and
listening skills, developing the ability
to speak concisely and effectively,

Activity: Muddling messages


Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: Everyone stands in circle;
one person comes up with an odd
sentence and tells it to the person next
to them. This continues by the end of
circle and the last person says it out
loud.
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer, practicing listening
and speaking skills
Activity: Yarn Bombing
Duration: 90 min
Procedure: A guest will explain the
concept behind Yarn Bombing, show
images of actions, and show the basics
of knitting, followed by a short Q&A
session; students will then try finger
knitting
Materials: yarn, laptop
Goal: developing the sense of social
activism, developing speaking and
listening skills, working on arts and
crafts
Activity: Imagine
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Listening to "Imagine" by
Beatles, filling up the gaps and
singing along
Materials: laptop, handouts
Goal: improving listening and
speaking skills, familiarization with a
cultural item, singing in a foreign
language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DVg2EJvvlF8
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states

their

Activity: My Name is Joe


Duration: 20 minutes
Procedure: Children are taught "Hi,
my name is Joe" song and the moves,
then we sing the song dancing to it.
Materials: /
Goal: Energizer, team-building
Activity: Creative writing
Duration: 30 min
Procedure: students are split in groups
and each group receives different
instructions for writing, few of the
students read their stories
Materials: papers and pens
Goal: developing writing skills
Activity: Environment
Duration: 60 min
Procedure: Students will watch a
documentary/video
about
the
environment, which will be followed
by a discussion. Then we will work on
solutions (action such as cleaning the
yard or the neighborhood, writing
letters
to
institutions,
signing
petitions, etc)
Materials: laptop, papers, pens
Goal: developing the sense of
preserving the environment and social
responsibility, developing listening,
speaking and writing skills, learning
the vocabulary
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,

Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense
of community
Activity: Snowball fight
Duration: 15 minutes
Procedure: The students write three
things about themselves on pieces of
paper, crumble them and trow them
at each other for a minute. After a
minute, everyone picks up the paper
ball closest to them and reads it out
loud, and the rest of the class try to
guess who wrote it.
Materials: pieces of papers
Goal: energizer, team-building, short
writing exercise
Activity: Visit to American Corner
& Personal Object
Duration: 110 min
Procedure: Students will go to the
American Corner where they can
enroll for free. Students can bring
their favorite books to class that day
and they can read an excerpt from
them/present them to the group, then
we can read a story together and
discuss it. Discussion on literacy.
Afterwards, each of the students can
present an object (including photos)
which is either their personal, or they
think it presents them well.
Materials: permissions from parents,
books and personal objects
Goal: developing sense/love of
reading and literacy, enabling to
students to continue further with
their English learning, developing
speaking and listening skills
Activity: Highs and Lows
Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day

Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

Activity: Highs and Lows


Duration: 20 min
Procedure: Everyone states their
favorite and least favorite moment of
the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

favorite and least favorite moment of


the day, conversation about the day
and future activities
Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of
community

relaxing, receiving feedback, sense of


community

and future activities


Materials: /
Goal:
End-of-the-day
activity,
relaxing, receiving feedback, sense
of community

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJSt4wP2ME Wavin Flag by K'naan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2nA49p3yw , or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmy9MpwyKnQ Activity: the Rights of children (I am not sure which one to include)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMyVk4VHxA Give peace a chance, Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGUUdHflY4 activity: Bullying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKx9mHdEzG8 Michael Jackson, Heal the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV1Ud0qUFm0 People work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojxgL3nf0Y Sad flower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJSt4wP2ME (K'NAAN - Wavin' Flag)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv38HIxHe0 (Shakira - Waka Waka lyric video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32DO6XV1BE (The World is Ours Brazil world cup song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58F7k2nLoA (Nelly Furtado - Forca Euro Cup)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk1v9s5s7YI (Nelly Furtado - Forca)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NSeysrDYw (Bob Sinclair - Love Generation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v7u0x5cF00 (Love Generation - World Cup)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU (John Lennon - Imagine lyric video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5DbZK2W7zw (Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World)

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