Teaching with Videogames: It wasn’t me! Learning languages during a spaceship sabotage in Among Us.
Would you be able to stop a spaceship imposter without using English?
Year levels: 5-10
Subject areas: LOTE/Languages, Italian
Suggested duration: 20min play at end of lesson each week
Technology required:
- iPad or Mac/PC plus internet
Download the full lesson plan
The lesson plan includes links to the Victorian Curriculum, indications of lesson timing, and ideas for differentiation and assessment.
In this lesson, students will
| 1. | Play Among Us, a fast, easy yet highly engaging videogame where players are astronauts who need to fix minor issues on the spacecraft before it is too late. |
| 2. | Students use the featured chat only in the target language, they practise vocabulary related to colours and clothing as well as sentence structure. |
| 3. | Student use past tense to talk about what they saw and what they were doing. |
| 4. | Students use the negation clause (particularly important in Italian, since it is different from the English construction), and finally they develop skills related to discuss, negotiate and make decisions in the target language. |
By the end of this lesson, students should
| Specific grammar and vocabulary as above. |
| Write short sentences in the target language, using past tense and negation clauses. |
| Knowledge reinforcement, negotiation, bluffing and decision making in the target language. |