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The following post on the FLTEACH listserv suggests an activity that might be useful for an exploratory language class. This activity was created by a French teacher, but it could be used for a variety of languages.

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I do a francophone bookmark project with my kids (I just have 6th grade exploratory). Each student chooses a different francophone country. They find the following information:
-Official name of country
-Type of government
-Currency
-Capital
-Languages spoken
-Economy/industry
-Major holidays
-Flag
-Several facts

On one side of the bookmark they draw the flag and put all off the information except for the facts. On the back they draw and label the country and capital, then they add the "interesting facts" (I always ask for a minimum of 3), then on the bottom half they draw the continent and label the country on the continent. I then have them laminated for the students to keep. We do the research and make the bookmarks in class and usually take two 45-minute classes.

Crenshaw, J. Re: 2nd call for ideas for exploratory French. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (20 June 2005).
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