2. Project ideas for teens
Some tried and tested topics

3. Project: The Great Escape
Project ideas for teens
Project: The Great Escape

4. Project: The Great Escape
Project ideas for teens
Project: The Great Escape
Objectives:
To learn about the history of some famous and unusual prisons and prison escapes
To build a maquette of a high-security prison
To present to the class an elaborate plan to escape from prison
Language aims:
Prepositions of place & movement
Past simple
Vocabulary related to buildings, actions, arts & crafts materials
Second conditional
Adverbs of sequence
Giving reasons, describing a process, general fluency

5. 1. Introduction to topic: blind drawing
Project ideas for teens
1. Introduction to topic: blind drawing

6. Example of photos to project
Project ideas for teens
Example of photos to project

7. 2. Vocabulary, how did he escape?

8. 3. Research in pairs, presentation to class
Project ideas for teens
3. Research in pairs, presentation to class

9. 4. Build a prison maquette in pairs
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4. Build a prison maquette in pairs

10. 5. Creative thinking, how to escape
Project ideas for teens
5. Creative thinking, how to escape

11. Project: The Great Escape
Project ideas for teens
Project: The Great Escape
Objectives:
To learn about the history of some famous and unusual prisons and prison excapes
To build a maquette of a high-security prison
To present to the class an elaborate plan to escape from prison
Language aims:
Prepositions of place & movement
Past simple
Vocabulary related to buildings, actions, arts & crafts materials
Second conditional
Adverbs of sequence
Giving reasons, describing a process, general fluency

12. Project ideas for teens
Have you ever done any similar activities in your classes? If so, how did they go? What other activities could you include in this project? What follow-up activities could be done?

13. Two more project ideas…
Project ideas for teens
Two more project ideas…
Amelia Earhart
Food and health

14. Some other tried and tested topics:
Project ideas for teens
Some other tried and tested topics:
Tribes around the world (research, build a tribal village using only natural materials)
The Circus (fitness, auditions for a circus, put on a circus show/documentary)
Natural Disasters (research, build a maquette for a natural-disaster-proof city, make a documentary or play about a natural disaster)
Science (research, do hands-on experiments, make a scientific TV programme)
Hollywood (history, a day in the life of, make a reality TV programme)
The environment (research, field trip, find ways to mend/reuse things instead of throwing them away)

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