Interactive Activity Boards
🌳 Explore the Interactive Activity Boards
Each lesson is supported by an interactive activity board designed to help learners practise and apply the English they are developing through sentence building, vocabulary work, listening, reading, language challenges and creative activities.
Use this page to explore what each board contains and see how the activities develop as learners progress through Stage 1 Foundations.
🌳 The Forest Pathways
🌰 Acorn Path – Lessons 1 & 2
🪵 Bridge Plank Path – Lessons 3 & 4
🍄 Mushroom Path – Lessons 5 & 6
🪶 Feather Path – Lessons 7 & 8
🦉 Gobo says:
"The forest is full of hidden paths. Every lesson you explore reveals something new." 🌳✨
Explore the games, challenges and creative activities available throughout the Stage 1 Forest Pathways.
🌿 Make the Boards Your Own
Learners following The Gobo Method – Stage 1 Foundations can explore all eight Interactive Activity Boards in view mode as part of their learning pathway.
For learners who would like to work directly on the activities, add their own answers and ideas, and keep their work as they progress through Stage 1, the Personal Interactive Board Collection provides editable copies of all eight boards.
Once duplicated into a free Miro account, the learner's personal copies are theirs to keep.
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Creating First Sentences
People, Places & Things
Learn the building blocks of English through nouns, articles, colours, possessives, and simple noun phrases.
• Common and proper nouns
• Articles and determiners
• Colours and describing words
• Possessives and ownership
• Building simple noun phrases
Begin combining words into meaningful sentences using pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, and the verb to be.
• Personal pronouns
• Adjectives and descriptions
• This, that, these and those
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Using to be in simple sentences
Acorn Path
Begin your adventure with words, sentences and simple grammar.
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
What Are You Doing?
Actions & Everyday Language
Bridge Plank Path
Discover verbs, questions, numbers, and prepositions while describing everyday actions and locations.
• Present simple verbs
• Question words
• Numbers and quantities
• Prepositions of place
• Possessive pronouns
Explore actions happening now and learn how to build longer, more descriptive sentences.
• Present continuous tense
• Simple vs continuous actions
• Adverbs of place
• Infinitives (to + verb)
• Can / Can't
Build confidence through communication and everyday English.
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Exploring the Past
Building Confidence
Mushroom Path
Develop stronger sentence structures using conjunctions, time expressions, and the verb to have.
• Have / Has
• Adverbs of time
• Conjunctions
• Questions and answers
• Longer sentence building
Travel back in time and learn how to talk about things that have already happened.
• Past simple tense
• Past continuous tense
• Regular verbs
• Questions about the past
• Adverbs of manner and frequency
Explore new grammar and talk about the past and present.
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Storytime in The Great Greenwood
Building Complete Sentences
Feather Path
Bring everything together by creating clear, confident sentences using a wide range of vocabulary and grammar.
• Sentence structure
• Subject, verb and object
• Place and time phrases
• Connectors and conjunctions
• Creative sentence building
Join Emma, Gobo, Old Feather, Quicktail and their friends as language comes alive through story.
• Story-based learning
• Listening and reading activities
• Grammar in context
• Question and answer challenges
• Creative writing and storytelling
Bring everything together through stories and creative language.
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
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