Body | 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:
- 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?
- Put the students into groups of 2-5. Each group is a simulated household.
- Give each group a copy of the Spring Cleaning resource sheet.
- 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.
- 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.
- Students negotiate within their group to determine how they will celebrate.
- 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.
- 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.
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