I hope my last post about PowerPoints made you think about how you present vocabulary. I don’t want you to think I’m completely against Powerpoint. I did find a good use of my old vocabulary PP today based on Megan’s recent “memorizing” posts.
Under the “Print” button, I printed the PowerPoint as a “Handout” with “9 slides” per page. I copied the pages single-sided for the students. They cut out the pictures. Each slide has a picture and the question “Do you like to ?”
Then they sorted the pictures into 3 categories and put in their notebooks: What they LOVE to do, What they LIKE to do, and What they DON’T like to do. (My sample above is ripped out of my notebook for demonstration purposes.) The goal for today focused on the function of expressing how they feel about the activities, instead of the vocabulary specifically.
From the PowerPoint, I also made one set of large pictures printed in color without text and laminated them. I gave each student a picture. They did “Ask, Ask, Switch” with them. [Basically one student asks another, “Do you like to (whatever picture they had)?” The other answers, and then asks about their picture. The first one answers and they switch pictures. They find a new partner and repeat the process. See previous post for more details.]
During the Ask, Ask, Switch activity, it was interesting how easily they remembered the new words. If they didn’t know it, they helped each other or looked in their notebooks. I also like how we used very little English and translating during both of these activities. Did I mention that THEY were doing all the work in class?? 🙂 My one tweak: Next time I want to limit the vocabulary, like things to do alone, outside, or on the weekend. I gave too many at once. I’ll just tell them to leave some room in their notes to add more later.
Great idea! We are doing “Me gusta” now and I made set of slides to do this activity. I am trying to have them use their journal more this this but I am not very good at coming up with ideas for it.
I’ll add some more activities as I teach it (and have success!)
Would you mind sharing your powerpoint for the ME GUSTA unit? Our district has adopted this model (We call it the Kentucky curriculum :-)) and we could really use the resources as we are all building from scratch. Your blog has been invaluable! I am in my 17th year and so far have done the Tareas Semanales, Frase de la Semana, Friday cheer, I can…statements/powerpoint slides….soooo many ideas—GRACIAS!
my email is vonetta.pierce@nccvt.k12.de.us
You know we are all about sharing, but we are trying to figure out the best way to do this. TPT: When we share on this site, it has to be all copyright free material, which is difficult when you we use any picture or authentic screenshot (majority of our materials). I’m not going to lie, it is also nice to get a little coffee money from what we sell there. We invest a lot of time making our documents. Email: We love you all, but we can not possibly email documents to everyone that asks. We have full time teaching jobs and the blog already takes a lot of extra time, which we love doing! Just getting ideas from you all is a time saver for me. Wikispaces: They now want money to use it. We are looking into similar sharesites to make this possible.
I feel like I should be sending you coffee money for the year for all of the inspiration and help your site has given me! I’m not all the way there (still struggling with letting go of direct grammar instruction), but I know my students are speaking MUCH more than they ever did before, and for that I’d keep you in Starbucks all year! So keep posting on TpT and I’ll keep supporting you all!!!
You are too sweet! It all comes down to finding time. Thanks for the support!