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Friday, May 20, 2011

Language Learning Strategies

Name of the activity: Catwalk-game
Context:  8 -10 year-old aged students in an extracurricular English classes
Objectives: there are two. The firs t is for the teacher to know the vocabulary students really know and the second one is to introduce the new one. Furthermore, the color topic would be reviewed.
Student preparation: the vocabulary learnt in previous courses,
Procedure: ask a confident student to stand up and walk around the class. Ask the rest of the students “ what is he or she wearing?”. The students will answer with the vocabulary they know. And the teacher introduces the new vocabulary. The teacher always asks for the color of the clothes. If there is a target vocabulary which is not found in the outfit of the students, the teacher  uses flahscards or pictures where famous people appear in order to encourage them to learn the new vocabulary introduced.
Example: Maria stands up and walks around the room.
Teacher: what is she wearing?
Pepito: she is wearing a red skirt and a white shirt.
Teacher: a white……blouse because Maria is a girl. And girls do not wear shirts, they wear blouses. 

Isabelle, Patricia, Sandra

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