English Extension Activities

  for secondary students

      by Jenny Rudd O'Neill


 

English Extension Activities is a teacher resource book of creative activities to challenge and extend the English skills of junior secondary students.

There is a wide variety of activities covering :

writing            

drama

vocabulary                  

reading

poetry                          

listening

speaking                     

research

debating          

 The book includes:

• photocopiable pages for student work, each accompanied by notes, explanations, ideas and follow-up activities for teachers.

• a variety of lesson ideas and suggestions

• useful lists, for example, writing and debating topics

• pro formas and evaluation sheets for students to record activities

English Extension Activities is particularly suited to better students in the class who can benefit from additional work and can handle more challenging activities.

Activities are suitable for individual, group or whole class work and can be used at school and at home.

English Extension Activities  is followed by Creative English Activities, for  middle secondary years.

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 English Extension Activities Contents

Writing

Short ideas for writing

Fables

Myths

Legends

Memoirs

Advertisements for imaginary inventions

Science fiction — robots

Science fiction — visit a future land

Newspaper front page — imaginary disaster

Newspaper feature — sporting match

Beginning a story

Plotting a story

Keeping the story going

Ending a story

Story using animals from fiction

Hypothetical situation writing

Vocabulary focus

Alphabetical activities

Staircase stories

Dictionary and information report — occupations

Dictionary and imaginative writing — phobias

Palindromes

Words that originated from proper nouns

Acrostic, telestich and mesostich

Poetry writing

Object poems (similes and metaphors)

Sense poems

Puzzle poems

Quatrains, triplets and rhyme schemes

Alliterative poems

Haiku

Tongue twisters

Limericks

Parodies

Speaking

Short ideas for speaking

Impromptu talks — beginner topics

Impromptu talks — further topics

Using the telephone

Imaginative talk on famous people

Arguments in pairs

Arguments in teams

Debates

Group discussion — bravery award

Radio program — stating an opinion

Television program —advice panel

Drama

Monologues

Duologues

Reporting a crime in three ways

Monologues in character — reporting a traffic accident

Role play — being a witness

Acting — hypothetical situation

Reading

Historical narrative — legend of King Arthur

Mythical narrative — the Rainbow Serpent

Descriptive prose —imaginative interpretation

Historical recount — escape by lifeboat

Activities using novels for young people

Survey of children’s picture books

Short ideas for newspaper reading

Listening

Short ideas for listening

Narrative fiction — the magic pudding

Oral recount — description

Factual writing and drawing — listening to instructions

Personal response to imaginative writing

Research

Historical recount on a disaster

Information report and talk on animals

Comparison — animal and human behaviour

Lateral thinking — unusual uses for objects

Facts on feet

Cities and countries

Local area pamphlet

Advertising brochure

Book about sport

Organising information — brochure for artists

Selecting information — a caravan holiday

Committee work — planning a pageant (Christmas theme)

Evaluation

Adjudication sheet for debates and arguments

Evaluation sheet for prepared speeches

Evaluation sheet for writing