Games for positions and rooms in a house

Get a doll house with several distinc rooms in it, preferably with furniture. With students, point to and say aloud the names of the rooms and the furniture.

Activity: Turn the house so students can't see inside. Hide a small object, such as a small stuffed animal. Students then guess where it is hidden.
Est-ce dans le salon? (teacher points) No, il n'est pas dans le salon.
Est-ce dans la salle de bain? (teacher points) Oui, il est dans la salle de bain. Mais ou dans la salle de bain?
Est-ce derriere la toilette? Est-ce dans le bain? Est-ce dans le placard? etc.

Paper dolls: activity for learning clothing vocabulary

Several variations on the same concept

Each student/ group of students gets a paper doll and several clothing options... or alternatively, they could get blank outlines of the clothing and color each piece in however they like They "dress" the doll and then present their doll to the class, explaining what pieces of clothing it is wearing and the color and style of each garment.

Pairs of students could work on giving directions. One student has a picture of the dressed doll (or a real photo from a magazine, etc.) and gives the other student directions on how to dress the doll to match the original.

Technical problem: Having enough clothing pieces for each group to make the activity challenging, i.e. black pants and striped pants, a short skirt and a long skirt, etc.

Inspired by "Dress the bear", Curtain & Dahlberg p. 122

Strategy for learning personal characteristics

Materials:

Photos/ Magazine pictures of well-known people: celebrities, personalities within the school or classroom, etc.

Cards with adjectives on them

“Floating” letters to add to cards to make gender/ number agree

The teacher starts by presenting the word bank of cards and taping them up on one side of the chalkboard as she presents each word. Each word is either acted out with a gesture or facial expression or it is matched up to one of the photos. Example: (In the target language) Ah, here is “short” (she crouches down). Short. Who is short? Let’s find a picture. Is Michael Jordan short? No. Is Tom Cruise short? Yes. What other words describe Tom Cruise? He is a brunette … etc.) Each word’s meaning is shown either by a physical action or by associating it with a well-known picture. As each word is discussed in relation to a picture, the two are taped side by side on the board.

Mis Cositas

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Lists of links with authentic L2 texts (and some stories) . ex.: the Tintin site! Such cool stuff... including some videos!