Activities for the Language Lab
TFLA’02
November 7-10
Fort Worth, TX
Karima Benremouga, Ph.D.
San Jacinto College Central
Today’s presentation and other materials are available at:
http://www.geocities.com/kbenremouga
Lesson plans for Chinese, ESL, French (levels 1-3), German, Italian, Japanese, Latin , Spanish (levels 1-4), and Tagalog. (California Language Teachers Association)
This site includes step-by-step instructions on how to write activities for the web.
480 Favorite Teacher Web Pages—French, German, Spanish (California Language Teachers Association)
Links to authentic documents on the web. They include Geography, Newspapers, Foods, Sports, Music, Literature, Museums, Artists, Leisure, History, Holidays/ Celebrations, Weather, Search Engines, and Comics.
http://www.clta.net/lessons/toplinks.html
PPT presentations for Spanish—can be adapted to other languages
http://tpduggan.tripod.com/powerp.html
Download worksheets for French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
http://www.bbcworldwide.com/talk
Some of these activities can be used in multimedia lab systems such as Tandberg and Sonny.
Sample activities
Nice to meet you!
Print multiple sets of the name cards, cut them up and distribute them to students randomly. Depending on the information on the cards, ask students to ask each other questions such as:
What is your name? Where are you from? What do you do? What languages do you speak?
Role play:
Take the worksheets that have role play, i.e. Card A and Card B and have students play the roles on the telephone (headphones).
Information gap--Directions:
Make two different maps of the master map. Make changes to the maps so that Map 1 complements Map 2. Divide students into pairs and give each pair a set of the maps. Ask students to keep their maps hidden from their partners. Partners do need to be seated next to each other. Using the headphone, each pair tries to complete the maps asking questions such as:
What building is at the right corner of Maple Street?
French for Business Resources
http://clear.msu.edu/buslang/pagebusfrench/busfrench.html
Spanish for Business Resources
http://clear.msu.edu/buslang/spanish/indexspain.htm
German for Business Resources
http://clear.msu.edu/buslang/german/start.htm
Links to selected Internet resources relevant to French, German and French business and economics.
Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms ~ French, German, and Spanish can be downloaded from:
http://clear.msu.edu/buslang/packets/index.html
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More activities for the language lab…
Who Am I?
Give students index. cards. Ask to write secretly a famous name on one card and a list of questions the back of the index card. The yes/no questions they write on the second index card should be written in a way that does not give away the famous person's name. Provide with a list of vocabulary to use. Students ask questions such as:
Am I a female? Am I a singer? Am I an athlete? Do I have black hair?
Can we meet?
Students write down their busy schedules on a grid. Tell them to fill out half the grid with their genuine schedule or an imaginary one. Then, students call each other and without looking at each other’s schedules, they try to find a time to meet. They have to find at least three possible times to choose from. They do this by asking each other questions:
What are doing on Tuesday/going to do on Tuesday?
Are you going to be free at five on Wednesday?
Combining arrangement
Make two sets (A & B) of pictures of objects, animals or people. Pictures in Set A are paired with pictures in Set B. Every pair has the same number, but displayed on separate pieces of paper. Items with the same number are similar, but may or may not correspond exactly. Where there are differences, these should be clear and easily expressed in simple language. Student work in pairs: Student A and Student B. Students A gets Set A, and Student B gets Set B. Students hide their pictures from their partners. Students A starts by choosing a card, giving its number, and describing/defining the card. Student B has to confirm or contradict each statement. :
- Number one is a man. -Yes, it’s a man.-He has black hair.-No, he doesn’t have black hair. (Both students mark number one with a cross.)