Learning Objectives:

Using a game, students will enhance their abilities to understand English phrases and being able to translate them to and from Spanish Using every day phrases, students who are learning English as a second language to will understand more about American culture better When given prompts, students will also be able to write sentences correctly in English and determine if they are grammatically correct An open area where about 20-30 children can gather around in a circle A desk for each student Pencil Paper

Required Materials:

Procedure:

Game 1: All students will make a big circle in the room with desks and sit down. The teacher will whisper an English sentence or phrase into the ear of the first student. The students continue whispering the phrase, exactly how they heard it, into the other ear of the person next to them so only they can hear it. Once the last student is told the sentence, he or she must say it out loud in English. As a class, if this was or was not the original sentence, then it will be determined whether or not the students understand how to translate. After this has been done twice or more, the directions can be changed. The same pattern applies; however, the students will be going back and forth between English and Spanish. When a student hears the sentence in English, he or she must translate the English sentence to Spanish for the next student. He/she who hears it in Spanish must translate it back to English. The pattern will continue until the end of the circle where the last student will say the sentence out loud and it will be determined if the students were able to hear understand and translate the sentence correctly as it traveled around the circle. Game 2: The students must complete each unfinished phrase correctly and be split up into partners or within a group. The teacher will give the beginning of a sentence and individually the students will finish the sentence based on what they think it means.

 Standards:

Assessment:

The teacher will have the students write down their sentence and turn them in and the teacher will read them aloud. As a group, the students can determine whether or not the two parts flow and make sense As an incentive, each partner pair will receive a point for each correct sentence. If the students are able to comprehend and keep the game flowing with the correct sentence in English, then they are at satisfactory at English comprehension. If the translation is at least mostly correct from English-Spanish and from Spanish-English, then there is a connection being made. If the sentences are grammatically correct and decent spelling, then the students have met satisfactory grammar requirements. ELP.6.1.7: Intermediate: Identify word roots and sentence patterns to solicit meanings of unknown words. ELP.6.4.3: Create simple phrases or sentences with prompting

References

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Learning every day English

Vanessa Preusz & Jonah Stevenson