🌐 Phase 3 - Investigation
🌐 Challenge
⏱ 5 minutes
Task 6 - Group C: Clear Communication Challenge
You're helping an international student join the Green Welcome Challenge. Some visitors need simpler words. Others need a picture, a repeated detail or a chance to ask.
Step 1 - Complete all three communication challenges
The Translators - simplify for a beginner
Rewrite this message so it's easy to understand for someone still learning English. Hint: "participants" → "students", "assemble" → "meet", "adjacent to" → "beside". Keep the place, time and item unchanged.
"Participants are requested to assemble at the gate adjacent to the school garden at 14:30 and bring a reusable water bottle."
The Communicators - build a message with no words
Tap all 6 icons to build a wordless version of the invitation: the place, the time, the item, an alternative, a way to ask, and a welcome.
Tap icons below…
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🕝
🍶
☕
❓
🤝
The Cultural Explorers - spot the misunderstanding
Tap 3 scenarios that could make this invitation hard to follow. Each reveals a solution.
📍 "There" with no named place
Solution: name the garden gate
🎒 "One" with no named object
Solution: name the bottle
🕐 "2:30" with no a.m./p.m.
Solution: write 14:30 / 2:30 p.m.
🚪 An unfamiliar school entrance
Solution: identify the entrance
💬 An unexplained idiom
Solution: explain or replace the idiom
🖼️ A picture with no text label
Solution: add a text label
🍶 Assuming everyone owns a bottle
Solution: state the cup alternative
🤐 Assuming a quiet visitor understood
Solution: ask "Would you like me to repeat that?"
Step 2 - Reflection
What helped more here: perfect grammar or a message the visitor could understand? Why?
Step 3 - Quick check
A. Use only complicated grammar.
B. Combine clear wording, useful visuals and a chance to ask questions.
C. Assume silence means understanding.
D. Guess what every nationality prefers.
"Every clear question can help someone feel included."
What happens in Task 6
A 5-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity as "Group C - The Communication Designers." Students complete three linked challenges - simplifying a formal message, building a wordless visual message, and flagging cultural misunderstandings - then write a reflection and answer a formative check.
🎯 Learning objectives
Recognise that a helpful message names the place, states a full time, and says exactly what to bring. Simple words, visual symbols and the chance to ask a question work together to help an unfamiliar reader.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Alternative response formats: students may draw, record audio, or point to symbols instead of typing
- Speech-to-text available for all text fields in this activity
- Peer support: pairs may work through each challenge together
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Group: simplify a printed message using scissors, paper and markers
- Group: draw symbols on large paper to communicate the invitation without words
- Group: printed scenario cards, solutions written on sticky notes