The Worlds Worst Children - Lesson 4 - Windy Mindy PowerPoint

The English Teaching Resources for 'The World's Worst Children' include a range of engaging activities aimed at enhancing literacy skills in line with the national curriculum. One activity encourages students to draw inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts, and motives, using the example of Windy Mindy. Students are invited to ask Windy Mindy questions, which helps them practise justifying their inferences with evidence from the text. Another activity focuses on understanding and using affixes, such as prefixes and suffixes. Students are asked to identify these in sentences from the Windy Mindy story and to use dictionaries to explore words that describe Windy Mindy and her unpleasant aromas, incorporating these words into their own sentences.

Further activities involve drafting and writing, where students compose and rehearse sentences orally, including dialogue. They read a section of the story where Mindy is sent to the headteacher and then write their own scene, incorporating dialogue and the affixes they have learned. There is also a vocabulary challenge where students work in pairs to use a dictionary to find the meanings of words from the story, with a competitive element as they race against an online timer. Additionally, there is a cross-curricular science activity where students are tasked with designing a wind-powered machine, integrating their English learning with scientific principles and creative problem-solving.