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| Title | Ideas for Practicing Numbers |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv for activity ideas using numbers received many good suggestions. The ideas below may be useful for very basic practice with beginners. ---- When I teach numbers (to adults), I use games a lot. We play Bingo, Snakes & Ladders and a Steeplechase game. I carry game boards on laminated cardstock. They fit easily in my binder. I bought 10 sided dice from a games store. My students have so much fun (acting like kids). They get competitive and focus on winning. For them, it feels like the accidentally learned numbers while fooling around with cards and dice. Bingo is great for listening practice. I do that first. I made my own blank cards. They write in their own random numbers (first column anything from 1-20, 2nd 21-40 etc., up to 100). I got a random number generator for my Palm PDA to call out the numbers, but you could use 10 sided dice (less than $4.00 CAN). With Snakes & Ladders, my students count each move and then announce the number of the square they land on. Steeplechase is similar. I also use flash cards made for primary school children. They each read three cards to the person next to them. This lets them practice both speaking and listening. If the accuracy is poor, they find out right away. We keep doing this until the accuracy is pretty good. I follow up with number based topics to reinforce the new vocabulary (telling time, prices, reading menus etc.). Swayne, K. Re: Italian - Teaching numbers. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (31 Oct. 2005). ---- The kids always know the "famous" phone numbers that are particular to the area in which they live, such as the local pizza parlor, the school, the attorneys on tv, the local car dealers, the emergency numbers, operators, etc. They have fun guessing which number their classmate is saying. I have them tell me the numbers in the target language and the others have to guess what it is. Most times they all know the local numbers! L. Re: Teaching numbers. Re: Italian - Teaching numbers. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (31 Oct. 2005). |
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