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TitleSpring Cleaning
SourceCASLS
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This activity is designed to have students, working in a simulated household, determine what spring cleaning chores need to be done, to assign different tasks to different people in their group, and to report on the completed tasks.

Outcomes:

  • Learners will be able to verbally suggest household chores and add them to a written list.
  • Learners will be able to negotiate as a group to assign different tasks to different people in the group.
  • Learners will be able to report details about the tasks that were to be performed.

Resource:  Spring Cleaning resource sheet.  You may wish to translate the elements in the charts and the helpful expressions into the target language.

Procedure:

  1. Begin by talking about spring cleaning.  How many students know people who do a deep cleaning each year in the spring?  How many do this in their own households?  What is the difference between everyday cleaning chores and deep cleaning chores?
  2. Put the students into groups of 2-5.  Each group is a simulated household.
  3. Give each group a copy of the Spring Cleaning resource sheet.
  4. Students work together to generate a list of deep cleaning tasks for each room of the house, using the chart on page 1 and the helpful expressions on the top of page 2.
  5. Students negotiate within their group to determine who will be responsible for each chore and record that information on the chart on page 2 and the helpful expressions on the top of page 3.
  6. Students negotiate within their group to determine how they will celebrate.
  7. Students share at least two reflections each in their group about how the cleaning went: one positive statement about another member of the group, and one suggestion for how they might do things differently the following spring.
  8. As a whole-class follow-up, the teacher may ask members of each group to share some of their reflections from Part 4 with the rest of the class.
Publishdate2014-03-17 02:15:01