English Language Holiday Homework

[Ailene Goldhirsh]

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This is definitely one of the most creative homework assignments. Let your students come up with an idea for a board game about the lesson content. They have to make cards, and pawns, draw, write, cut, and paste. They have to use their imagination and inventive ideas to create a coherent board game.

Let your students gather as many coupons as they can by going to one single store. Let them write down the original price of the products and then calculate the discount. Which students come out the cheapest? This math homework activity teaches the students to calculate percentages in real life.

Let your students visit a zoo and be the family guide. They have to read the map or create their own map afterward. You can also let them translate or look up the translation for a foreign language of every animal they visit.

There are a few lessons, students can learn from this visit. Lots of people throw away perfectly recyclable things you can still use or give a new life. Let them (if possible) pick out a few pieces and give them a new life. The purpose of the tool may be something totally different. Students will also see that the amount of (plastic) waste is still immeasurable. Hopefully, it will encourage them to reduce their own waste consumption.

Assign fun learning games to your students. With BookWidgets your students are gaming but also learning. As a teacher, you can put your lesson content into a crossword riddle, a word search, a pair-matching exercise.

Let your students build a replica of the school or of their house in Minecraft. It will teach them orientation, and it will teach them to read the instructions and follow them. In order to build a replica of their house, students have to measure the areas in the complete house. This means that they will learn how to calculate areas and volume as well.

Many rope-skipping songs let your students do different tricks while rope-skipping. This is an excellent opportunity for homework as well. Ask your students to transform a rope skipping song into a song with lesson content. Let them count or spell or even sum up the different states or capitals. To engage their lifestyles even harder, you can additionally give them the assignment to create a TikTok in which they are jumping and singing.

Job applications are still mostly done by email. This homework task challenges students to dig deeper and to present them by using video. Students learn how to put together an application, learn how to edit their video, and how to present themselves.

This homework task is already an old one, but it has so much potential. Find a school in another country, speaking another language willing to do the same. Every student gets one pen-pal, and they write emails to each other in the language of their pen-pal. It encourages them to write in a foreign language. They will also see the value in it as they will have to be able to speak another language in their work later in life.

Which idea do you or perhaps your students like the most? Let us know on Twitter. Of course, there are many more alternatives. If you have other ideas, you are always welcome to share it with other teachers in our Facebook group.

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