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A recent discussion on the FLTEACH listserv on scrapbook activities generated many interesting suggestions which could be used for learners of a variety of ages, levels, and languages. Below are two of them.

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I had them do a magazine as a year-long project and every writing assignment that we had became an article. As soon as we learned new grammar, they had the information that they needed to continue with their magazine.

Giuliano, J. Re: como se dice scrapbook. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (14 Oct. 2005).

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Currently my IB juniors students are doing a scrapbook of sorts - their autobiography. The emphasis is the preterite and imperfect tenses. My students have to include info such as: when and where they were born, how many siblings they have, where they lived, three physical and three personality characteristics they had as a child, what they used to do as a child and three things that happened to them/they did which had an impact on their life somehow. Many of the students of course also use present tense to compare what they were like to what they are like now. You could add: what they predict they will be doing in 10/15/20 years and what life will be like for them; if they could change something about themselves/their life/the world, what would they change and how would they change it.

Damascus, B. Re: como se dice scrapbook. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (14 Oct. 2005).
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