Happy Monday, WL enthusiasts!
This week in Voices From the Field, we will be featuring some of the beginning of the year interpersonal activities in LOWLT classrooms that also serve to motivate and encourage students to engage in language by creating a welcoming classroom where risk-taking is celebrated. With each activity, I am going to tell you what I personally love about the activity. Building Towers with Sra Martha Rapio at Gilbert High School! What I love about this activity:
Ms. Rapio says: This team building activity I tried with my immersion students today to learn about cooperation and team work. They had to work as a group to build the tallest structure they could, only using tape and newspaper and the structure had to be able to remain up itself. It was great to see them listening to each other's ideas in Spanish to make it work and helping each other. At the end, they discussed as a group to reflect on the importance of working in groups, advantages and disadvantages and what the could do differently next time. They really enjoyed the activity and felt very excited about competing against each other to have the highest tower.
What is the Affective Filter?
Solving Crimes with Sr. Jesus Redondo at RBHS
This particular activity I spotted on Sr. Redondo's Twitter and asked him to share with you all! (Hint: Tweet @LOWLT so that we can see the awesome things you are doing in your classroom!) What I love about this activity:
One student has been robbed and called the police. The victim is facing the screen, and the cop gives it the back while listening to the thief’s description that the victim will say. The victim will pick from a group of pictures that will be displayed on the screen. When the victim has finished describing, the cop will turn around and guess from the pictures we can see on the TV following the victim’s description of the thief. They switch roles several times, so everyone has the chance to listen and speak. Below you can find pictures of the students participating in the activity and images they used to describe!
How to do Information Gap Activities
One of my favorite activities to do that you can adapt to your classroom!
Game of Taboo: Students have to use circumlocution to get their partner to guess a word they are describing without saying the forbidden "taboo" words. Here is an example for environment topic tested on High School, Middle School and Elementary Immersion. See how much fun Midway Elementary immersion had doing it at the DLI camp this summer!
I will follow up with some more of my interpersonal favorites in the next blog post but first, I want to hear from you! What interpersonal play do you and your students enjoy? Comment below or tag us in your tweets so we can get your class featured! @mllehajji @LOWLT
See something you want help implementing in the classroom? Email [email protected] and I will help you get set up!
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