“A true flag is torn from the soul of people. A flag is something that everybody owns, and that is why they work” Gilbert Baker
During all September we have been working on flags. It all started when we used flags to reflect on the countries where people speak English as a first language. We all knew about the USA, UK and Ireland but we were surprised to discover that it is also spoken in some countries of Africa and Asia. English is an official language in 88 countries in total!
Every country has a flag to use as a symbol and we are familiar with a lot of them. By observing a set of flags we discussed and found that some are very similar and have some characteristics in common. We discovered that they have plain colours and that there are some shapes like the rectangles, squares or circles in them. We also noticed that in some of them there are symbols but letters or numbers in them are not so common.
Once our flag was ready, we had to imagine how to use it to design our English bookmark.
We also continued to put into practise our reading and listening skills by playing games in which we had to match descriptions to the corresponding flag. It was quite easy to understand the oral and written texts because the previous activities done in class helped us familiarize with the vocabulary related to flags.
The final task in all this process was to describe our own flag. We thought it was difficult but we had example descriptions and writing frames that guided us in the process. These tools are very useful to write texts because they help us write correctly and they can be easily adapted: we can just follow the basic instructions or we can include the extra vocabulary. The important thing is that we can all write the description of our flag!
Take the challenge: create and describe your own flag!
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