English lesson using the wheel application

1. Literary terms aren't the most fun topic, and
there are a lot of them, so they can be hard
to remember. These activities for teaching
literary terms are fun, engaging, and
authentic. Teaching literary terms is often a
chore, because students struggle to
remember all of the terms. They will learn
their meaning and how they are used

2. Aims and objectives
• Build reading skills
• Learners to know and understand the meaning of literary devices
• Apply literary devices in literature
• BE able to identify the literary devices used in texts
• Analyse different literary devise

3. 4. How to use the wheel
• Prepare your spinning wheel by writing a question number in each segment.
• Prepare a list of 20 questions.
• Divide your students into pairs, groups or teams.
• Spin the wheel.
• Nominate a student to say when to stop the wheel.
• Stop the wheel.
• Ask the question associated with the question number on the wheel.
• Any student, pair, group or team can answer.
• If the answer correctly, spin the wheel.The student who got the previous question
correct and say when to stop the wheel.
• If the student answers incorrectly, leave the question open. Encourage the other
students to answer the question.
• If no student has answer within a time limit, spin the wheel again.
• Spin the wheel again to introduce the next question.
• Repeat as many times as necessary or until all questions have been answered.

4. Questions
• What is a simile?
• What is a metaphor?
• How do we see foreshadowing?
• What is called a representation in literature?

9. Advantages
• Allow participation
• Allow learners to think on their
feet
• Give opportunities to learners to
engage
Disadvantages
• Can make the learners anxious
because of the random
questions
• Requires internet access in
under resourced schools