The activity can last for the whole lesson if you'll include a small talk of your choice, and share thing you did in the summer vacation.
After sharing, let students think of the things they also want to share to you about summer vacation. There are three sentences they have to use to explain about it.
- I went to/enjoyed/ate/played/watched...
- I've never been to/eaten/played/watched/tried/seen...
- I want to go there/try it/see it/watch it...
I didn't make a worksheet for this as my JTE was confident that the students can share without it. If you think your students are not confident with sharing without having notes with them, you can make a simple worksheet as memo.
After 2 or 3 minutes of deciding what to share, call for volunteers to share, then pair share. After that, you can play the hot potato game to make the sharing more exciting (or thrilling) since 3rd graders are normally reserved and conscious about their English. I prepared two plush toys as objects for the game to pass around, so it would be more exciting.
To those not familiar with the hot potato game, it is a game where an object(should be safe and more realistic if you use a potato plush toy pretending it's hot so you can't hold it for a long time so you pass it) is passed around the class (passing to the person sitting beside you to make it more organized than passing it to anybody you want to pass it on, that would be a big chaos) while a song is played. When the song stops, then the student who holds the object will have to share or answer.