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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Interpersonal speaking activities

In elementary school, what we want the students to do is to get used to infer meaning from meaningful input, but also to use the language chunks we teach as much as they can. I try to have students all speaking to each other at least one time per class. It can be something as simple as asking them to stand up and ask each other how they are. It is hard to asses, but it can be done. In this video you will see part of the set up for the activity. I created a table with "I like" and "I don't like" columns, and inserted images of the fruits we had learned. I called students to the board in pairs and wrote their names on the left column. Then, each one said what fruits they like and dislike while the other dragged the correct fruit to the table. After that I used this worksheet for my interpersonal speaking activity:


and demonstrated with 2 students what to do: I asked each student to write their name, then I made them swap papers. Student 1 asked student 2 "¿Te gusta la sandía?", student 2 answered yes/no, and then student 1 made a check mark in the correct box. After that, I set up pairs and gave them the worksheet. I walked around listening to each pair, and gave them sticker for speaking Spanish. Some of them even used complete sentences! To keep them occupied while I was listening to each group, I added a column with colors and asked them to color the fruits. I have 19 students in each first grade class, and I did the activity (set up included) in 2 class periods.


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