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Guess What?/ Hide and Seek
Language classroom: EFL, ESL
Why did you choose this activity? This activity is a fun and simple way to engage students in speaking (and listening), and may remove some of the apprehension that students often have when having to speak. It also is a great way to learn and reinforce cumulative knowledge such as numbers, colors, vocabulary, prepositions, imperatives, and asking questions. Level and L1 background: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate
Age: 10 to Adult
Skills: Speaking, Listening, and Vocabulary
Purpose: To speak communicatively while utilizing and reinforcing comprehensive knowledge of vocabulary and grammar skills.
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: Index cards (one per Student), pen, jar/box, miscellaneous small-medium objects (that Students will be assigned to bring).
Preparation: On the day before the activity, each student will be assigned an object to bring on the day of the activity. To incorporate vocabulary, object will reflect material being learned in current/previous chapters (for example: hair brush, toothpaste). Teacher will compile a list of objects and write one object on the top line of each index card. On the lines below the object, the teacher will write 2-3 words that describe the object (this part may be omitted for beginners). Each card will be folded and placed into the jar/box from which students will draw a card with the written object. Teacher must instruct students beforehand that they must not show their card to anyone. It might be a good idea to review the students of knowledge (vocabulary, grammar) the day before, and briefly before class activity. Some teachers might ensure that students are adequately prepared by assigning a quiz and reviewing the answers before class activity in order to enhance the activity's success. The quiz would be the work, and the activity would be the reward.
Procedures: 1) Students will be assigned in pairs by calling off numbers 1 and 2. Each partner 1 will have a partner 2. 2) All of the students that are number 1's leave the room, while the number 2's hide their objects somewhere in the classroom. 3) All of the number 2's leave while the number 1's enter the room and hide their objects. 4) Any number 1 student will pair up with any number 2 student. 5) All partner 1's will describe their objects to their partners (number 2's), and number 2's will have to guess what the object is. Except for beginner students, number 1's will have to describe the object without using the descriptive words that were written below the object (on their index card). Number 2's may ask questions to find out what the object is (that reflect the material being learned. Questions like, "What is it used for?" or "What color is it?"). 6) After number 2's correctly guess, number 1's instruct and direct number 2's on how to find the object without telling them the exact location. 7) After number 2's find objects, the roles are switched.
Pulling it all together: After the activity, Teacher will ask students if they were successful. What contributed to their success? What questions were helpful? Which knowledge or material did they use in accomplishing their goals? Teachers might help students brainstorm how they might use this type of conversation in every day life.
What's the Scoop?
Language classroom: EFL, ESL
Why did you choose this activity? This activity encourages students to speak through a communicative approach while reinforcing their comprehensive vocabulary banks.
Level and L1 background: Intermediate
Age: 12 to Adult
Skills: Speaking, Listening, Writing
Purpose: To learn how to gather information by asking questions
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: Paper, pen, index cards
Preparation: Teacher should review vocabulary and question format conversation with students. Teacher might also briefly show examples of magazine articles. Teacher will distribute index cards with a different occupation on each card along with a proposed scenario. For example, one index card might contain the occupation of an actor that just landed a role on a popular tv show. Another example might be a doctor that saved someone's life on a flight to Alaska.
Procedures: Students will have to assume the roles with the scenarios indicated on his/her index card to a partner. The partner will have to ask questions as if he/she were doing a story for a magazine article called "The Scoop." In writing the story, the students must incorporate current or previous vocabulary (4 nouns, 4 verbs, 3 adjectives, 3 adverbs). Then, the students will switch. Students should be given 10 minutes each to interview each other, and 10 minutes to write a short article. Students will share their articles with the class. To extend more listening skills into the activity, the students can also write down the vocabulary words that they hear while one student is sharing their article with the class.
Superlative Dunk Borrowed from: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html
Language classroom: ESL Why did you choose this activity? Although it is necessary, learning grammar can be a dry experience. This is a fun and interactive way for students to learn or reinforce grammar skills. Level and L1 background: High beginner-Low intermediate
Age: 7 to 18
Skills: Grammar
Purpose: To learn how to form superlatives as well as proper usage of superlatives.
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: 3 small wastebaskets, 3-5 foam balls, index cards, masking tape. Preparation: The teacher lines up the wastebaskets in a line (horizontally, facing the classroom), and marks a place on the floor with masking tape (where the students will stand behind when "making the basket.") Each wastebasket is labeled in the order: -er/-est, more/most, irregular. Also, the teacher will write one adjective per index card; making sure to include adjectives that have an irregular superlative form (for example, bad-worse-worst). This pile of index cards should be placed on a desk near the shooting line.
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By Regina Cunningham and Zita Cayanan
Language classroom: EFL, ESL
Why did you choose this activity? This activity utilizes the Communicative approach which urges students to use their writing, listening, and speaking skills in order to accomplish the tasks in the activity.
Level and L1 background: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced (level adjustable according to complexity of picture)
Age: 13 to Adult
Skills: Listening, writing, and speaking
Purpose: To understand complexity in communication (importance of being specific and clear in communication as well as intent listening), and learn how to properly utilize prepositions.
Time: 25-30 min
Materials: two to four different simple drawings, each drawing on a different colored piece of paper. The students will need a pen or pencil and paper.
Preparation: One day prior to the activity the teacher should bring in enough drawings for everyone in the class to have one. The drawings should be appropriate for the level of the class. Each student will be given one of 2-4 drawings (each on different colored paper) and for homework, they will write directions that describe how to draw the picture. The homework is required for the following day.
Procedure: In class the next day, the students partner up with someone who has a different colored piece of paper (and therefore a different drawing). Student A will read his or her written directions (that he/she had done for homework) to Student B without looking at their partners drawing. Student a must adhere to their written directions without adjustments. Then Students A and B switch roles. At the end of the activity, the students show how closely their pictures resemble the "original" pictures, and evaluate how effective their written directions were initially and what changes they would have made to accomplish their goal more quickly. If time permits, students can repeat the process without reading their directions in order to help them communicate more spontaneously. |
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첫댓글 유용한 자료 고맙습니다.등업완료입니다.^^
오늘 확인해보니 준회원이네요 ㅠ_ㅠ다른 자료도 열심히 올릴께요~^^
뭔가 어려울 것 같네요. 감사합니다.
길어서 자세히 읽어봐야겠지만 재밌을거 같아요~ 잘 쓰겠습니다~
읽는데 시간이 쩜 걸렸지만..저도 외국인과 같이 해야하는지라 열씨미 잀었습니다.^^
유용히 담아갑니다.