Task #1


Task #1
Hello, everyone. This is my activity:
Everyday object: Small coloured lunch boxes
Goal: To learn positive qualities
Target language: Nouns and adjectives
Layout: Circle time
Instructions:
1. Place pieces of paper with the nouns of qualities inside the coloured boxes and put them inside the circle.
2. Have SS pick each one a box and have them read them in turns. Elicit the meaning of the words and help with the ones they don't know.
3. Then they have to right on the other side of the paper the adjective corresponding to the noun. Eg. love -> loving, lovable.
4. Then in turns SS say the adjectives they have come up with.
5. Lastly, each one could give their box to another student, saying "I would like to give you my box because I think you are very loving", the specific goal here being learning to give and accept compliments and practicing giving and receiving a gift.

Comments

  1. Juan UribeApril 15, 2016 at 7:00 AM

    Hola Silvia! 
    I like very much how you worked on the language first and then created a task in which they could use it very affectively. 
    By modelling it you value how we can use language to be closer to people. You are teaching students to value others. 

    Might be interesting to talk about the experience of giving compliments and receiving them to make meaning. 

    Simply beautiful!

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  2. Carolina Brenes BurgosApril 15, 2016 at 7:14 AM

    I really liked this idea! The kids I am teaching right now are very young so they don't have a lot of vocabulary, but I am working on giving compliments and building each other up, so I just may adapt this idea for that! Thank you!

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  3. Silvia Montufo UrquízarApril 16, 2016 at 7:44 AM

    Thank you!

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