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| Title | More Activities for Practicing Location |
| Body | Here are a few more ideas for practicing expressions of location in your classroom. ---- I get them up and moving around and tell them to stand or sit in weird places in the room. I also have them describe to me where other students are during this time. I also hide a beanie baby I have in the room and the first thing I have them do (without me telling them after the initial time) is find him and write a complete sentence about where he is in the room. If it is totally correct (spelling, accents), then I give them an extra credit point. I also extend this into geography and make them line up according the location of the Spanish-speaking countries, etc., following my directions. Amel, A. Re: location activities. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (15 Sept. 2005). ---- One of the most powerful ways I've found is to have them draw a picture of a house with a garage beside it, trees behind it, a cat on the roof, someone in the front, etc. Use vocabulary they already know. Have the students draw the picture _with you_ as you draw it on the overhead (preferable to the black/whiteboard - because you don't have to turn your back to them!). Talk about it constantly, keep asking where things are, act confused or whatever, ham it up, draw badly if you don't already (that always amuses my students). Use colors, whatever. Then, wait a day or two and do a little oral "pop" quiz. Ask the students to tell you in the TL where things were in the picture. At first they may exclaim "But how are we supposed to remember that?!!?" They will. Freeman, M.A. Prepositions of location. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (2 Dec. 2005). |
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