FATMA KARACA

                                                                                                   3-A    10131048

                                                          SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

UNIT:  Classroom Rules

GRADE: 5

ACTIVITY 1: One Word Story

AIMS OF THE ACTIVITY:   To activate the students’ schemata

                                               To speak fluently and correctly

                                               To highlight word collocations and practising word order

                                               To develop their communication abilities

PROCEDURE: The teacher can begin by saying the first word and each student adds the next word, without repeating what has come beforehand.

The stories can develop in any number of ways. Some groups may need the teacher to provide punctuation and decide that the sentence should end and a new one should begin. The great thing about this activity is that all students have to concentrate and listen carefully to their colleagues to be able to continue the story coherently. Good starting words can be “Suddenly” or “Yesterday” to force the story into the past tense. and also this activity improves the students' ability of obedience about the classroom rules. By repeating the rules  again and again, they can obtain them easily.

Example:
* Teacher – “we”
* ALİ– “should”
* AYŞE– “raise”
* FATMA – ‘our”
* BERK – “hand”
* LALE – “before”
* CEREN – “speaking”

                                              

Reference: Submitted by TE Editor on 6 September, 2002

ACTIVITY 2: Picture Dictation

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: To make the students obtain the ability of telling a picture

                                          To speak fluently by using visual aids

                                          To improve their working as a group and relationship with an interaction 

MATERIALS: Some papers, colorful pencils

PROCEDURE: First of all explain to the students that they are going to do a picture dictation, that you are going to describe a picture to them and that all they have to do is simply listen and draw what they hear you describe. Students then describe a simple and easy-to-draw picture about the classroom rules to them and they draw it within a group. To help you with their first picture dictation you can use the picture on the accompanying worksheet and the description below it as a guide. It is a very simple picture for a low-level beginner's class but this kind of activity can be adapted to any level of student. And also, this activity is very beneficial for working as a group.

Reference: Submitted by TE Editor on 23 June, 2002