English Access Microscholarship
Program – Access Program/Georgia
Summer School – June 29 - July 5, 2017
Schedule of Activities
Day 1
10:00
– 10:15 – Participants are greeted and presented the schedule of the day.
10:15
– 11:15 - Students are divided into two (or more – up to the teachers to
decide) equal groups. The groups are
assigned to develop a group identity through giving a name to their group, inventing the dance, creating their
motto, logo and other attributes.
11:15
– 11: 30 Presentations of the chosen
groups
11:30
– 11: 45 – Break
11:45 – 12:45 – Team
building activity. Making a group
picture-the picture is divided into parts. Ss make big copies of each parts and
put together.
12:45 – 13:30 – Group activity ‘ Silent
cards shuffle’ to encourage cooperation between groups.
13:30
– 14:00 – Lunch
14:00
– 14:30 – Activity 'Picture Story', teacher
shows pictures and the students write the suitable sentences individually then
they check their writing with pairs according to the rubric. Finally they read
their variant.
14:30
– 15:00 – English Grammar through Games– “ I wish I could…” Teacher asks
students to write down a wish on a sheet of paper. Students write, fold them
and put them in the hat. Each student picks the folded papers, reads and guesses
whose wish it is.
15:00
– 15:15 – Break
15:15
– 16: 45 – The project ‘ The role of social media’
16:45
– 17:00 – Wrap-up of the day
Day 2
10:00
– 10:15 - Participants are greeted and presented the schedule of the day.
10:15
– 11:30 – Project ‘ The States of America’.
Two main groups are divided into subgroups and given some American
states to find information about and make a poster.
11:30-11:45
– break
11:45- 12:15 - Groups make presentations of their posters.
12:15
– 12:45 – Grammar through games: Running Dictation
12: 45 – 13: 30 Indoor Olympics
Variation on Egg Drop ( including the
explaining of rules)
13:30
– 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 – Group activity 'Contradict me' ( cards with
questions and answers, one of the members of the group asks and the student who
answers quickly gets the card, the winner of the group is the person who
receives the most cards)
14:30
– 15:30 – The activity ‘ Circle Writing’
15:30
– 16:00 – Game ‘ Where is my pen?’
16:00
– 16:40 – The activity ‘ Information transfer’
/ Students read some informative text. After that they take information
from it and put it in a different format. This can be a picture, a map, a table
or a timeline.
16:
40 – 16:50 – Free writing. / Students are given time limit and they write as
much as they can about their impressions of the day.
16:50
– 17:00 – Wrap-up of the day
Day 3
10:00
– 10:15 - Participants are greeted and presented the schedule of the day.
10:15 – 10:40 – Waking
up activity. Teacher shows the photos of famous people. Students brainstorm the
information about them.
10:40
– 11:30 - The activity 'Be Speedy' which helps students to increase the speed
of their reading of the authentic materials. ( Teacher puts three different pages of the English newspaper and asks them
to read and write down answers to the given questions.)
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45
– 12:45 – Watching comedy 'Mr. Bin' to make activity 'sound off vision on'. 6
students are sitting face to face, 6 of them watch the video where the sound is
off and tell their partner what's
happening in the comedy in the Present Continuous, then another 6 students who don’t look at the screen have to
say the same sentences in the Past Simple
12:45
– 13:15 – Chinese Whisper ( Students in two groups stand in a line. Teacher
shows the first member of each group the sentence. The first member whispers
the sentence into the air of the second member. When the last member hears the
message, they write it on the board)
13:15 – 13:45 – Lunch
13:45
– 14:15 – Quiz show – “Who wants to be a
millionaire”
14:15
– 14:45 – Song time. Students listen to the famous songs and fill in the
removed nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs or
prepositions.
14:45
– 15:00 - Break
15:00
– 16: 30 – Project ‘ The role of music and films in my life’ Preparation and Presentation
16:30
– 16:45 Free writing.
16:45
– 17:00 - Wrap-up of the day.
Day 4
10:00 - Excursion to ‘ Borjomi’.
·
Students
take pictures, make notes in order to write articles later for the newspaper.
·
Olympic-
Toilet Paper Bridal Dress Game: dressing their “bride” in their best
toilet paper gown design.
·
Outdoor activities.
·
The activity ‘ Treasure Hunt’.
Day 5
10:00
– 10:15 - Participants are greeted and presented the schedule of the day.
10:15
– 11:45 - Students write articles for the newspaper about ‘ Borjomi’ and about
their impressions. And they make a final version of their newspaper.
11:45-
12:00 – Break
12:00-12:20
- Groups make presentations of their newspapers
12:20
– 13:00 – The game ‘Mystery box’
13:00-
15:00- Preparation for the
Talent Show
15:00 –
16:00 - Talent Show takes place
and Singing competition
between two groups.
16:00 – 16:30 - Celebration dinner
16:30
– 17:00 – Wrap –up of the day and of the Summer-school. Students evaluate these
five days.
