OUTLINE FAMILY SPINNER

Universidad Latina de Costa Rica.

Sede Pérez Zeledón.

Taller de Multimedia y Materiales Didácticos.

FAMILY MEMBERS SPINNER

Veronica Alvarado

Kelly Cruz

October 2017

FAMILY MEMBERS SPINNER

TARGET CONTENT N° 1: IDENTIFICATION OF Family members and partner’s relatives.

8^th Graders

Aim: Talking about family members and relatives.

Materials: YouTube (video), spinners, sheets of paper.

Duration: Preparation: 1 hour. Playing the game: 15 minutes

Language focus: -How many         do you have? -I have brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles... –My mother's sister is my        . -Is he/she your _______? -How old        ?  -How many _____?

Aim of the game: Identifying Eliciting basic information from both friends and strangers.

INTRODUCTION

At the beginning of the class students will see a video about an American sitcom called Modern Family as a way to introduce the topic, and for students to recognize different types of families. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aogZUDx51vQ )

Students then will share with the rest of the class if they had seen the sitcom sometime.

PREPARATION

1.      Ask the students to draw a picture of their family members.

2.      When students have their family drawings finished ask them to stand up and make a circle to perform the activity called “Family Members Spinner”.

ACTIVITY

1.      When students form the circle, the teacher is going to ask one student at the time to choose a number from 1 to 7 as a way to choose which student is going to start. The same dynamic will be maintained until each students has participated.

2.      When the student who is going to participate is chosen, he will have to spin the spinner. Depending on the color in which the spinner falls, the student will have to describe their family using the drawing they already made, answer a question or answer a trivia.

3.      The color Pink means: Describe your family, color Orange means: Trivia and color Purple means: Question. Color green means: surprise.