The year is
flying by! I can’t believe we are
at the end of May. While this blog
has taken a backseat to other projects I have going on, I hope to focus on it
more now and as we begin the second half of the year.
A huge
portion of successfully speaking in your second language, is being able to
convey information about yourself.
Today’s post will provide the basic grammar and some activity ideas to
do just that.
Vocabulary
- Months of the Year
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
- Numbers
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,18, 19, 20
- 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
- 31
- Directions
- Street
- Road
- Drive
- Corner
- North, South, East, West
- Greetings and Leave Takings (formal and informal)
- Good morning, Good afternoon, Good evening
- Hello, Hi, Hey
- How are you?, What’s up?
- Fine, Doing Well, Thank you
- Good bye, Bye, See you later
- Nice to meet you, Pleased to meet you
- Self Statements
- My name is __________________.
- My phone number is ________________________.
- I am _______________ years old.
- My address is ________________________.
- I live ________________________.
- My birthday is _____________________.
- Questions:
- What is your name?
- How old are you?
- What is your phone number?
- Where do you live?
- When is your birthday?
Warm Up
Video Clip
- Procedure: Watch a short clip from a well known movie where people introduce themselves and give personal information
Greeting Race (in
1st language)
- Procedure: Give students a set amount of time (no more than 3 minutes) and have them greet and ask one question to as many students as they can. Once time is up, ask each students how many people they met and what they learned about each person. *This is done in their 1st language*
Greetings at the
Door
- Procedure: Teacher or student greets everyone in the 2nd language at the door before the class starts. Change up the greetings as each person comes in.
Sing a Song
- Procedure: Teach them a song that has to do with greetings and giving person information.
Practice
Dialogue
- Procedure: Students read a prewritten dialogue in pairs.
Board Game
- Procedure: Students play a board game in small groups. When it is their turn, the students roll a dice to see how many spaces they can move if they can correctly respond to the question correctly. Personal information questions are written on different cards, after a student rolls they pick up a card and answer the question (the correct prompt is on the back). If they can correctly respond to the question, they move their game piece the amount of spaces the dice says, but if not they cannot move their game pieces.
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Hot Potato
- Procedure: Students plan Hot Potato like normal but when the Potato is stopped the student must answer a personal information question.
Who Am I?
- Procedure: Teacher tapes the names of famous people on each students back without the student knowing who is on their back. In order for students to find out who is on their back, they must ask the following questions:
o How old am I?
o Am I a man?
o Am I a woman?
o When is my birthday?
o Where do I live?
Signature
Scavenger Hunt
- Procedure: Students are given a paper with the following statements on it:
- Someone who is the same age as you
- Someone who lives in the same town/neighborhood as you
- Someone who has a birthday in the same month as you
- Someone who has a birthday on the same day as you (can be in a different month)
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Production
Dialogue
- Procedure: In pairs, students write a dialogue introducing two famous people, two teachers, themselves, etc.
Interviews
- Procedure: In pairs, students will interview one another like they do on television. One students is the interviewer and the other is the interviewee. Then they present their dialogue to the class (the rest of the class is the audience).
- Modification:
- Students pretend to be famous people.
- Audience can ask questions after the interview
Poem
- Procedure: Students write a poem about themselves
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