The Flag and National Symbols

Objective & content

Jessa, the guide, and the learner, who jokes along, start from a guessing game about the first American thing you picture. They then take four national symbols in turn: the flag with its fifty stars and thirteen stripes, the bald eagle, the Star-Spangled Banner and the Statue of Liberty. The language focus is present simple and short comparatives (wider than a dinner table, taller than a building), with a few passive phrases such as "chosen for the national seal" and numbers, dates and measurements. The vocabulary covers government, historical dates and famous people. Learners practise listening for facts; the flag gets its own joke: "So it's basically a scoreboard."

Materials & prerequisites

• Student sheet and teacher sheet (PDF and HTML versions, in `printables/`).
• Prerequisites: present simple, basic numbers, and the idea of a comparative.

Curriculum alignment

Tagged to the cycle 3 axis "the child and the wider environment" (6e). The episode targets CEFR level A1+.