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| Title | Monster Activities |
| Body | ... just in time for Halloween! A recent discussion on the FLTEACH listserv about various ways to practice language by having the students create and describe monsters or aliens generated the following suggestions. ---- The students design their monsters at home and write a description in Spanish. The monsters are displayed in front of the class with numbers under them. The students hand in descriptions to me with no names on them. I then pass back papers to different students (no one has their own paper), the students then read the descriptions, and the class has to try to guess which monster they are describing. Students are not allowed to guess thier own. They have fun with this one! Giuliano, J. Re: Creating monsters/aliens--would appreciate suggestions/ideas. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (18 Oct. 2005). ---- I have done an activity similar to this with my French I students as well. The fun part comes after the students have drawn their monsters and written their descriptions. I then give each student a second piece of paper and they describe their monster to a partner who then tries to draw it based on the description. It's often very funny to see the original monster in comparison with the second one and it gives the students a good chance to practice their listening and speaking skills. Vanasdalan, C. Re: Creating monsters/aliens--would appreciate suggestions/ideas. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (19 Oct. 2005). ---- I have a mini-lesson on shapes and then do the following activity. You can also have students add personality descriptions , and you can have students label their pictures if you wish. Have paper bags ready to go, labeled le corps (the body), la tête (the head), les bras (the arms, les jambes (the legs), les yeux (the eyes), le couleur (the color). In the bags you will have slips with: - head and body: shapes in the target language - arms, legs, eyes: numbers in the target language (you could also use dice- they roll for the number) - color: colors in the target language Students draw a slip from each bag. This will determine the shape of the body and head; the number of arms, legs, and eyes; and one color to include in their drawing. Tell them to keep their drawings secret. Put names on the back. When the drawings are finished, hang them up or pass them out randomly and have students describe their monster. The other students will guess which one it is. Smith, B. Re: Creating monsters/aliens--would appreciate suggestions/ideas. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (19 Oct. 2005). |
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