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terça-feira, 30 de julho de 2013

My version of the same idea

For my first day of class, I decided to use the sunglasses project. I prepared a whole class for this simple project and I'd like to share it with you...

Material needed: one paper sunglasses per student, scissors, colored pencil. 


Preparation in advance: Take some flash cards or a PowerPoint  presentation with pictures related to vacation to the classroom.

Time: 60 minutes

I welcomed students and asked them to sit on a circle on the floor. Then, I showed them my paper sunglasses, very similar to this one...


By the way, This one, as I mentioned before, I took from Pinterest. 
So, I invited them to guess what  I did during my vacation. After that, I told them they were supposed to draw something nice that had happened to them during their vacation. But they couldn't tell anybody about it, since they would play a guessing game. 
After 20 minutes drawing and coloring things, I worked with vocabulary. 
I created this "page" on an Ipad app named Popplet. It has a free version (that you can only create one vocabulary cloud) and a paid one. I usually use this app to work with vocabulary, but I know there are many other uses of it. It's worthy downloading it. Take a look at the one I created for this class...


It took me less than 5 minutes to make it I elicited vocabulary and drilled pronunciation. To consolidate the new structures, I played a hot potato and a miming game.

When I felt students were familiar with the new vocabulary, I played the guessing game. In two groups, students discussed about their vacation. Then, student from group A showed his /her sunglasses to group B. Students from group B had to guess what he/she did during his/her vacation.

To wrap up, after playing this game, students were invited to write a paragraph about their vacation. The sunglasses and the paragraph will certainly become a bulletin board which pictures I post later! 
I hope you enjoyed this class!

2 comentários:

  1. LOved it!!! Loved the blog!!

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  2. Thank you, Lu! We are certainly going to invite you to write a post for us! We love you!

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