| Body | Learning Objectives: Students will be able to ask and answer simple questions about what they did over the weekend.
Mode: Interpersonal Communication
Materials Needed: Weekend Bingo handout, large whiteboard or screen to write selected student responses
Procedure:
- Explain to students that they will be finding out how many different things they did over the weekend. If you are using LinguaFolio, point out the relevant Can-Do statements under Novice-Mid Interpersonal Communication.
- Distribute the Weekend Bingo handout.
- Model example conversations in the target language with student volunteers. Start with a simple conversation (A: What did you do this weekend? B: I mowed the lawn), then model conversational repairs that are likely to be needed (A: Steve also mowed the lawn. Did you do anything else? B: Well, yeah, I also watched a movie), and finally, model how to show interest in fellow students’ responses (A: Oh, cool! What movie?).
- Explain that students will circulate around the room and converse with each other, until they can fill in each of the squares with a different activity. Students will write a student’s name and what they did in each square.
- If some students fill in all 9 squares before others, they should look converse with each other to find the most unusual weekend activity that someone did.
- Debrief with the entire class. Write a few of the most unusual activities where all students can see them. Ask students which activity they thought was the most unusual, most fun-sounding, most boring, and the most work. Ask students what parts of the conversation they struggled with and suggest strategies to help, and ask what parts were easiest for them.
Note: Once students are used to this type of mixer activity, you can use it frequently with other questions: favorite foods or what they had for dinner yesterday, possible solutions to a problem scenario, favorite childhood memories, career plans, etc.
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