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 IMPROVE YOUR ACTING SKILLS
CHARADES

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As for the final project of this units, my students are going to become actors and actresses, I have prepared an activity in order to help them improve their acting skills at the same time that they use the language to communicate orally. 

Charades is a very simple game: Students act our phrases or words and their teammates have to guess what is it. This is a fun, interactive game, ideal for helping to develop their speaking and vocabulary skills. 

I have prepared my own charade cards, which include expressions, people or characters, animals and situations. They also include an emoji representing the card, so they have a little clue. 

Here you have them:






SHOP DIALOGE


My students love role-plays, and I have prepared the following activity for them to practise their oral interaction and the vocabulary from this unit. Here you have it:


Students will listen to a dialogue between a shop owner and a customer. Later, they will create their own dialogues and prepare a role-play.

Presentation: Warming-up: Do you often ask for help when you go shopping? Now, listen to the dialogue.

/transcript/:
Shop assistant: Can I help you?

Customer: Yes, I'm looking for a dress.

Shop assistant: What size are you?

Customer: I'm an extra large. I'm looking for a plain blue dress.

Shop assistant: How about this one?

Customer: Yes, that's nice. Could I try it on?

Shop assistant: Certainly, the changing rooms are over there.

Customer: Thank you. (goes into a changing room to try on the sweater).

Shop assistant: How does it fit?

Customer: It's too large. Do you have a large?

Shop assistant: Yes, here you are. Would you like to try it on?

Customer: No that's Okay. Thank you. I'll take it. I'm also looking for some nice trousers.

Shop assistant: Great. We have some very nice trousers over here. Would you like to take a look?

Customer: Yes, thanks for your help. 

Shop assistant: What do you think about these?

Customer: They're nice, but I'd prefer cotton trousers if you have them.

Shop assistant: Certainly, our summer collection is over here. How about these?

Customer: Yes, I like those. Do you have them in grey as well?

Shop assistant: Yes, here's a pair. 

Customer:  I'll go try them on.

Shop assistant: Let me know if you need any help.

Customer: Thank you. (comes back).

Shop assistant: OK, how would you like to pay?

Customer: Do you take credit cards?

Shop assistant: Yes, we do. Visa, Master Card and American Express.

Customer: OK, here's my Visa.

Shop assistant: Thank you. Have a nice day!

Customer: Thank you, goodbye.


Practice: Create your own dialogues between a customer and a shop owner.

Production: Represent your dialogue.

SPEAKING UNIT 8: LET'S TALK ABOUT SHOPPING! 

Here you have a worksheet I created for my students to practise the vocabulary of Unit 8 in a more interactive way:


CLUEDO: SOMEONE HAS MURDERED THE MAJOR!  

This time I have prepared an adapted version of CLUEDO. The main objective is that students practise the present perfect as well as the vocabulary related to Unit 5, Places in town. But, in fact, they will be also practising many other contents that we have already studied, as you will see later. 


INSTRUCCIONES:
·       El juego se desarrolla en la ciudad de Londres. El objetivo es descubrir quién ha asesinado al alcalde, con qué arma y en qué lugar. En un sobre vuestro profesor va a introducir una carta de sospechoso, una de arma homicida y otra de escena del crimen, elegidas al azar. Las demás se repartirán entre los jugadores (o grupos de jugadores), con cuidado de que los demás no vean tus cartas.
·   En cada turno (los turnos irán en el sentido de las agujas del reloj), cada jugador o grupo debe escoger una carta de prueba, que le asignará una tarea y le enviará a una u otra casilla. Debemos adivinar cuáles son las cartas que se esconden en el sobre, y que corresponden al crimen que se ha cometido. Por cada turno, cada jugador puede expresar una sospecha, por ejemplo: “I think the major has been murdered by Elizabeth in the Amusement park with a brick”.
·       Los demás jugadores mirarán sus cartas y si alguno de ellos posee la carta correspondiente a la sospecha (Elizabeth, the amusement park or the brick), esto quiere decir que la sospecha es equivocada. El primer jugador a la derecha del que ha expresado la sospecha que tenga una de esas cartas se la enseñará, cuidando de que no la vean los demás jugadores. ¡Tened cuidado, porque los detectives más experimentados podrán formular sospechas falsas, utilizando cartas que se hallan en su poder para despistaros!
·       Así iréis acercándoos a la solución del enigma. Cada uno de vosotros tiene una hoja de detective, para apuntar vuestras averiguaciones. Cuando creamos saber la solución, tenemos que realizar una acusación, por ejemplo “I charge Elizabeth with the murder of the major, in the amusement park and with a brick”. Para realizar la acusación, debemos estar en la casilla correspondiente al lugar en el que creemos que tuvo lugar el asesinato, y además es posible expresar una sospecha y hacer una acusación en el mismo turno. ¡Mucho cuidado, pues el jugador que realice una acusación falsa queda eliminado del juego! Pero si la acusación es verdadera, ese jugador habrá ganado...


MATERIAL PARA EL ALUMNO: 



TABLERO:

CARTAS DE PRUEBA:





NOW IT'S TIME TO PLAY!

PRESENT PERFECT & PAST SIMPLE BOARD GAME

Hi everyone! As my students love board games to practice, I have created a new one related to Present perfect and Past simple.


Here you have it:














Time to play!

RELATIVES GAME

I have prepared a game for my students to practise the relative pronouns and they loved it!

  
Here you have the game with its instructions. Enjoy it!



TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE - BOARD GAME

Today, I want my students to interact and cooperate with each others in order to talk about the future. For that reason, I created a Board Game that will serve them as a guide to practise their speaking skills. 


They will be divided in groups of two or three students. Here you have the Board Game:

 

ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC

This time I wanted to show you a rubric I created to evaluate the oral presentations my students will be doing during the whole academic year.



I used the web Corubrics, which is very useful and facilitates the teacher work, since it gives you the grades automatically. I encourage you to use it; it's fantastic!

Here you have the Oral Presentation rubric I created. And remember it's very important to show the rubric to the students before they prepare the presentation, so they can know what key points they have to take in mind.




REPORTED SPEECH - BOARD GAME

 I have created a funny Board Game for my students to practice Reported Speech in a more interactive way. 


Here you have it:



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