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| Title | Oral Activity Ideas: Part 3 |
| Body | The last two weeks’ InterComs featured ideas for oral activities from FLTEACH subscribers. Here is our final installment: Not so much a conversational exercise, but a good adjective practice exercise with LOTS of aural practice: I post pix of famous or interesting-looking people around the room and number them with post-it(r) notes. Each student gets a number, describes it in writing and after 5-7 minutes of writing, each student reads her/his description out-loud and the rest of the class has to guess which number it is (it's also a good time to recycle numbers: don't do them sequentially, 8, 15, 79, 500, 901, 13, 63...). Also, have more pix than students or else the process of elimination takes over for the last couple of descriptions. Sometimes I do Bingo where they have to ask each other if they have done the things in the boxes. Each box contains one short sentence: "I ran today", "We ate ham yesterday", etc. And so, to fill in the row/column/diagonal, they have to have a series of mini conversations: "Did you run today" "Yes, I ran today" and the first student writes on the box, "Sally ran today". For plural forms, they must find at least two students who do/did/will do/have done that thing...(choose whatever verb tense you want to review...with whatever vocab set you want to recycle). It's more of a warm-up or cool-down activity for me. Oh, no repeating names is allowed! This gets them moving around, which is why I like it as a warm-up. Start with a box of 3x3 to get them used to it, them progress up to whatever size you can fit on a paper. When one person gets a row filled, they raise their hand and their name goes on the board. I usually write down the first three - five names on the board b/c sometimes a grammar issue will result in a winner NOT being the winner, so we check out loud what their "Bingo" is. If something like "Susana bebemos leche", "Mateo comen tomates" or something like that comes up, we have to go to the next name on the list. "My funny friend": write up a description of a physically "odd" person and read it out loud: I have a friend with three legs, two heads, no necks, four eyes on each face, long hair on his three arms... And the students draw your funny friend. Then they do it (for small or whole groups). Also, "Mi casa": students sit back to back for this one. Student A describes her house to Student B, who has to draw it. Student B may ask questions if something is unclear, but the 2 students may not face one another. Then they switch roles and B describes his house to A. At the end, they look at their drawing and orally, make corrections: "No, la cocina está aquí, no aquí..." Waid, A. Re: [FLTEACH] Oral activities for the foreign language classroom. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 6 Apr 2009). |
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