Shark in the Park Activities Bundles
Less planning, more learning! Save time preparing super fun ESL lessons with Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt.
♦ Hours of fun, dynamic activities that you can use to bring story language and expressions to life.
♦ Flexible materials and activities for 6-10 lessons.
♦ Perfect for mixed age groups or to use across a range of levels.
♦ Pick and choose the activities you want. All the activities are great value at around €1 - €2, with bigger and bigger discounts the more you buy.
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Flashcards and game cards
Perfect for a whole host of whole class, small group and pair practice of your target language.
♦ Help your young learners learn key position, movement and description language in a fun, dynamic way.
♦ Try out the included game ideas for interactive practice and easy learning.
♦ A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
♦ Perfect for helping you plan engaging and effective lessons so you have structure to your Shark in the Park story lessons.
Interactive storytelling and retelling
While you can incorporate retelling with any of the resources on this page, these resources are more specifically designed for retelling and manipulating the story.
Your ESL young learners will acquire more language from the story with multiple retellings. The resources below are super helpful for allowing you to do this in dynamic and fun ways. Empower your young learners to tell the story for themselves (or even add their own unique twist on it!)
♦ See the excitement from making a whole book from one sheet of paper.
♦ Ideal for practising sequencing skills and at the same time consolidating language from the story.
♦ Cater for all abilities and contexts by choosing from a choice of templates and procedures.
♦ Perfect for retelling the story and consolidating key story language.
♦ Easy to make for even your littlest learners.
♦ Includes lots of interactive story retelling and game ideas.
♦ An engaging craft your ESL kids are certain to remember.
♦ Use across multiple lessons for any language revision activity.
♦ Practise useful family vocabualry in a memorable way: grandpa, grandma, mummy, daddy, baby (or any variation you choose).
♦ Includes 4 different versions of the Baby Shark lyrics. Which ones will your esl kids like best?
♦ Easy to prep for little hands with helpful cutting guidelines.
♦ Get playful and use them in roleplays, free play and acting out your favourite shark songs and stories.
Worksheets with a twist
Printables that are perfect for introducing and practising useful phrases, vocabulary and structures from the Shark in the Park story. Follow the activity suggestions for dynamic ways to work on receptive and productive skills.
♦ Choose from 2 different versions for easier and more difficult folding.
♦ Includes all key story elements (plus extra!), so you can activate the story language easily and effectively.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning.
♦ Great for interactive story retelling – more language, more memorable!
♦ Great for retelling the story and having the children hunt and find the pieces to stick in their picture.
♦ Perfect for even your littlest learners. Stretch your older learners by getting them to ask each other for the pieces.
♦ Includes useful vocabulary from the story: dad, boy, telescope, cat, bird, shark, duck and more: dog, girl, and bat.
♦ Excellent for using in interactive games and revision activities after making it. Ideas in accompanying activity suggestions.
♦ Involve everyone in the class to create something they can be proud of.
♦ Includes useful vocabulary from the story: dad, boy, telescope, cat, bird, shark, duck, pond, tree and more: owl, bat, dog, girl, lizard, flowers
♦ Ideal for following up on a Shark in the Park unit/session in a personal way.
♦ Get creative with activating useful story language.
♦ Choose from a variety of templates to suit every age and ability.
♦ Showcase your young learners’ work.
♦ Revise story language in games from a wall display.
♦ Includes posters and border strips.
♦ Choose from 4 different sheets to easily differentiate according to ability and age group.
♦ Includes all key story elements (plus extra!), so you can activate the story language easily and effectively.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning.
♦ Fun problem solving element helps your young learners with recognising patterns.
Games to make and play
All of these can be made to play before your class, but they are also fantastic for integrating even more language practice because the kids can make their own copies. Super useful for bringing English outside the classroom – your young learners will be so excited to play these at home with their families.
♦ Get crafty and choose from 3 different dice to practise story, animal/people vocabulary and useful phrases from the story.
♦ Your ESL young learners will love playing games with the dice. Lots of game ideas included to make planning super easy.
♦ Engaging graphing sheets are great to get your kids interacting and practising their maths and English skills.
♦ Not just for one lesson. These are games you can come back to again and again!
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Not sure how many resources you need?
Of course it depends on your particular context, but I’d like to give you an idea of how I’ve used them across multiple levels, lessons and age groups. Below is a sample lesson map with the resources.
In general I follow this sequence:
- Introduce the language and use activities to focus on understanding, i.e., the children have to listen and understand to complete the craft/game/worksheet.
- Revise the language and give the children the opportunity to produce the language.
- Practise the language in a freer way that lets the children experiment with the language.
Lesson 1: Flashcards and game cards (story characters); Storytelling; Colouring sheets
Lesson 2: Find and stick or Find and Colour craft; Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with video or book
Lesson 3: Dice games; Telescope craft Flashcards and game cards; Story retelling
Lesson 4: Mini-books; Story telling; Small group card games
Lesson 5: Graphing sheets + dice games; Storytelling; Write and Draw templates OR card games
Lesson 6: Jigsaw Display Craft OR Shark family Stick Puppet Craft + Learning stations with games, story and crafts used.
What’s more, each resource includes different templates so you can differentiate for different levels or repeat the story across year groups but using different templates.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! There are a range of templates to choose from within each resource so it’s super-easy to differentiate. The included Activity Suggestions will also give you ideas about how you can conduct the activity so each child can work (play!) to their full potential.
Definitely! (You knew I would say that!) No, but seriously speaking, I started making these resources for just one class but I’ve now used them several times over. I’ve even used them with the same groups in subsequent years, because the different templates allow me to vary the activity and language focus.
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