End-of-year interactive speaking activity

To celebrate these last classes of the year, I designed a speaking activity to call students’ attention to the skills they have developed, the obstacles they have overcome, the people they have helped, and the ones that have helped them.

The activity is inspired by the Japanese legend of paper cranes as a symbol of hope and resilience.

Here you can find the paper crane story adapted to A2 level (+ vocabulary and pronunciation), and in this link you can find the story adapted to levels B1 and above.

The activity was designed in Google Slides. It is a set of 14 slides. The first is a menu, the last one contains the credits to the images (please keep it), and the other 12 slides include the questions and a link to return to the menu.

You can edit the slides by adapting or excluding the questions.

I used it in the end of the class and it lasted about 20 minutes, depending on how much the students were willing to talk about the topics. It worked well as self-evaluation and as an opportunity to set goals to next year.

Use it in presentation mode and remember to click on the links to access the slides or return to the menu.

Here you can download and make a copy of this activity. Suggestions are welcome 🙂

If you use this activity, I’d love to see it: please tag me on Instagram @teacher.angelaventura

Images credits: paper crane / stars