Muzzy Games, Tasks and Videos

Suggested activities

Here you can find videos, transcripts, print-outs and games to a BBC animation Muzzy in Gondoland.

As homework ask your students to watch the videos, print-out the exercises, play the games and learn the words.

In class play the games again (if necessary), read and translate transcripts (if desired), check the exercises and check the words.

Cards:
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 1
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 2
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 3
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 4
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 5
Muzzy in Gondoland Episode 6
Muzzy Comes Back Episode 1
Muzzy Comes Back Episode 2
Muzzy Comes Back Episode 3

The recommended way of learning the words is:

Match

Learn

Spell

Cards

To check the students have learnt the words the following lesson invite them to share the screen and do the Cards part together.

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Time Capsule. WW2 - Lesson Plan

suggested activities:

Discussion: students are asked what they think a time capsule is and what can be found in it.

Before students play the game BBC Primary History - Time Capsules: WW2. Ask them what objects can be found in a capsule from Victorian times. 

After they read the introduction ask them to choose the capsule and answer the question about this time period to open it.

Play the  game (either at the lesson or at home), if played at the lesson ask your students to share the screen and discuss the game as you go.

Read the instructions of the game together and make sure everything is clear. Explain that they will have to read about each object and then read the information on the suspects to guess who buried the capsule.

If played at home ask your students to write a short description of every object and every suspect. 

Ask your students if they had to put things into a time capsule to tell about their lives and time period what would they put in it?

Students learn the words Time Capsule - WW2

The recommended way of learning the words is:

Scatter

Speller

Learn

To check the students have learnt the words the following lesson invite them to share the screen and do the Learn part together.

Students choose a word to fill in the gaps that was ACTUALLY used in the game:

She's telling the child how much she _______ them and that she hopes they are happy while they are away from home.

• loves
• misses
• remembers

People used dried egg ______ which they mixed with water.

• liquid
• powder
• solids

Boys would tie _______ to wooden soldiers with string and then throw them into the air, they would fall back down like parachutes.

• handkerchiefs
• material
• scarves

The _____ were very worried that the German planes might drop  poison gas bombs.

• teachers
• police
• government

The year this capsule was ______ Jenny was allowed to go home to Birmingham.

• hidden
• put in the ground
• buried

When she got to her street she found that her house had been completely ______.

• destroyed
• wrecked
• demolished

Paul leighton was very young when he was _______ but he returned home the year this capsule was buried.

• evacuated
• taken away
• relocated

Sarah lived on a _______ farm during the war.

• potato
• dairy
• tomato

He could _____ every plane by its outline in the sky.

• tell
• recognise
• identify

Anyone needing to find their way around would need a map as all the signposts were taken down, so that if enemy soldiers_______ they wouldn't know where they were

• broke into
• trespassed
• invaded

There was _____ many things during the war so a lot of toys were made of whatever people could spare.

• a lack of
• plenty of
• a shortage of

Charles's family was quite _____ and he had attended an expensive school before the war.

• rich
• wealthy
• well-off

The whole school was  moved into a large country manor house where the boys could continue their _____.

• studies
• education
• schooling

She had to ______ without lots of things she was used to, including chips from the chip shop, and she hated dried eggs from a tin.

• live
• survive
• make do

He saw cows and sheep for the very first time and spent a lot of his time _____ wild berries and nuts.

• gathering
• picking
• collecting

The record of what foods they bought was kept in a _____ book.

• ration
• food
• distribution

Their house didn’t have electricity and the toilet was _____.

• inside
• outside
• attached

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Time Capsules. Victorian - Lesson Plans

suggested activities:

Discussion: students are asked what they think a time capsule is and what can be found in it.

Before students play the game BBC Primary History - Time Capsules: Victorians. 

Ask them what objects can be found in a capsule from Victorian times. After they read the introduction ask them to choose a capsule and answer the question about this time period to open it.

Play the game (either at the lesson or at home), if played at the lesson ask your students to share the screen and discuss the game as you go.Read the instructions of the game together and make sure everything is clear. Explain that they will have to read about each object and then read the information on the suspects to guess who buried the capsule.

If played at home ask your students to write a short description of every object and every suspect. 

Ask your students if they had to put things into a time capsule to tell about their lives and time period what would they put in it?

Students learn the words Time Capsule - Victorians

The recommended way of learning the words is:
Scatter
Speller
Learn

To check the students have learnt the words the following lesson invite them to share the screen and do the Learn part together

Match a word with its definition

1.	common		something that makes you want buy something
2.	butler		go somewhere to study
3.	clothes peg		answer for something
4.	complicated		things that you own
5.	china doll		закопать, put in the ground
6.	attend school		a head servant
7.	labour		a thing where you can ride
8.	bury		a toy
9.	be responsible for		a thing to fix clothes to the line when they are drying
10.	advertisment		usual
11.	belongings		difficult
12.	lungs		white fluffy thing that you can make into material
13.	suspect		you make this noise when you have a cold
14.	fare		humid and wet
15.	poisonous		sickness
16.	steal-stole-stolen		make money
17.	damp		a price you pay for your journey
18.	mine		something black that you can write with
19.	carriage		work
20.	cotton		a big organ that you breath with
21.	a piece of chalk		something to start a fire with
22.	ink		a place where people get minerals, usually underground
23.	underground		a person who has no parents
24.	matches		something white that you can write with
25.	disease		something that can kill you
26.	earn a living		take away something that is not yours
27.	cough		somebody who did something
28.	wealthy		something that you get when you pay for your journey
29.	orphan		the Metro / subway
30.	ticket		rich

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