Live at Three O'Clock!
Your class has only one school day to make a brand-new programme for the school TV channel. Choose a genre, beat the clock and see if your show is ready to go live at three o'clock!
A free Story Adventure for Young learners at CEFR B1 level. Topic: tv programmes genres telling time school subjects past simple present simple.
Story
- Every Monday, you look at your timetable before school starts. Today you have maths at nine o'clock, history at quarter past ten and science after lunch. But when you arrived in class this morning, your teacher, Ms Rivera, had big news. "The school TV channel needs a new programme, and our class is…
- The class voted, and your idea won! A quiz show needs a presenter, two teams and lots of good questions. Your friend Leo wants to be the presenter because he watches quiz shows on TV every evening. "We need questions about maths, geography and science," he said. It was already half past eleven, and…
- At quarter to two, you ran into the science lab. Mr Okafor smiled and gave you a list of fun questions about planets, maps and numbers. "If you ask these, the teams will really have to think," he said. But then you saw a problem: the old quiz buzzers were broken and didn't make any sound. Without…
- The class chose your idea, so you are going to make a documentary. A documentary tells true stories, and your school is more than one hundred years old! In the library, you found old photos of students who studied here a long time ago. Some of them wore funny hats and wrote on small black boards.…
- Everyone loved your idea, so the class is making a cooking show! You often watch cooking shows at the weekend, and you know the cook always talks to the camera while working. The school cook, Mr Diaz, said you can use the kitchen from one o'clock to half past two. Your art class made bright signs…
- You and Leo wrote the questions quickly in the classroom. At three o'clock, the quiz show went live on the school channel. But the questions were too easy, and both teams knew every answer straight away. After ten minutes, the score was still equal and some viewers started to look bored. Ms Rivera…
- The music teacher lent you a drum and a bell, and they made perfect buzzers! At three o'clock exactly, Leo smiled at the camera and the quiz show began. The teams hit the drum and the bell, and everyone laughed at the loud sounds. Mr Okafor's questions about science and geography were exciting, and…
- The PE teacher gave you two whistles, one for each team. The show started at three o'clock, and the whistles worked well. The questions were great, but the whistles were very loud in the small studio! Some viewers turned the volume down, and one team laughed so much that they forgot their answers.…
Vocabulary
- timetable
- maths
- o'clock
- history
- quarter past
- quarter to
- half past
- science
- geography
- art
- music
- PE
- channel
- programme
- live
- quiz show
- presenter
- documentary
- cooking show
- weather forecast
- cartoon
- viewers
- library
- film
- studied
- weekend
Printable worksheet
This Story Adventure comes with a free printable worksheet: 2 parts for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Remember the story · Answer in a full sentence.
- A new ending · Write a new ending for the story. Use three story words.
Part 1: Remember the story
Answer in a full sentence.
- Why did everyone start talking at once?
- Why did Leo want to be the presenter?
- Why are the broken buzzers a big problem?