Winter Games Host - LES - ESL - Cycle 3

Engage your students in a high-interest ESL project where they become Olympic city planners. In this Winter Olympics learning and evaluation situation, students explore real Olympic host cities, learn targeted vocabulary, and complete an individual final project where they invent their own Winter Olympic host city.

Through reading, planning, writing, drawing, and speaking, students develop their English skills while completing a meaningful final task: designing a city map and giving directions in English.

What students will do:

• Read about real and invented Winter Olympic host cities
• Learn vocabulary related to Olympic venues, city places, directions, and the environment
• Complete an individual planning sheet to organize ideas
• Write a descriptive text about their Olympic host city
• Draw a detailed city map
• Practice oral interaction through a giving directions game
• Present or explain their city in English

Skills practiced:

• Reading comprehension
• Writing a descriptive text
• Oral interaction (giving directions, asking and answering questions)
• Vocabulary development
• Environmental awareness

This resource includes:

• Teacher guide with step-by-step instructions
• Reading comprehension text (real Olympic host city)
• Model reading (invented host city)
• Student booklet
• Individual planning sheets
• Map model
• Oral interaction game with rules
• Final project guidelines
• Answer key

Perfect for:

• Upper elementary and lower secondary ESL
• Individual evaluation projects
• Learning and Evaluation Situations
• Winter or Olympic-themed units

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