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    Claire provides several teaching ideas for language lessons that she has used successfully with both children and adults. Some of the ideas include a flash card guessing game to build vocabulary, a Pictionary-style drawing game, using real food items or pictures to teach food and drink vocabulary, having students draw and label types of food on paper plates, doing a drawing activity where students sit back to back and describe shapes and colors to their partner, and transforming the classroom into a pretend shop or restaurant to encourage role playing and interaction in the target language. The ideas are meant to make language learning engaging and memorable for students.

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    Claire provides several teaching ideas for language lessons that she has used successfully with both children and adults. Some of the ideas include a flash card guessing game to build vocabulary, a Pictionary-style drawing game, using real food items or pictures to teach food and drink vocabulary, having students draw and label types of food on paper plates, doing a drawing activity where students sit back to back and describe shapes and colors to their partner, and transforming the classroom into a pretend shop or restaurant to encourage role playing and interaction in the target language. The ideas are meant to make language learning engaging and memorable for students.

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    Claire provides several teaching ideas for language lessons that she has used successfully with both children and adults. Some of the ideas include a flash card guessing game to build vocabulary, a Pictionary-style drawing game, using real food items or pictures to teach food and drink vocabulary, having students draw and label types of food on paper plates, doing a drawing activity where students sit back to back and describe shapes and colors to their partner, and transforming the classroom into a pretend shop or restaurant to encourage role playing and interaction in the target language. The ideas are meant to make language learning engaging and memorable for students.

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    Claire Writes

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    Claire provides several teaching ideas for language lessons that she has used successfully with both children and adults. Some of the ideas include a flash card guessing game to build vocabulary, a Pictionary-style drawing game, using real food items or pictures to teach food and drink vocabulary, having students draw and label types of food on paper plates, doing a drawing activity where students sit back to back and describe shapes and colors to their partner, and transforming the classroom into a pretend shop or restaurant to encourage role playing and interaction in the target language. The ideas are meant to make language learning engaging and memorable for students.

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    Claire writes: 'Here are some teaching ideas.

    I have used them mainly in Spanish and


    French but they would work for most languages. I am teaching in Key Stage 2 but most
    ideas I have also used with adult learners.

    Flash Card Guessing Game

    One child has a flash card and the other children have to guess what it is by asking
    closed questions, Is it an animal? Is it big? Is it a fruit? Is it blue? and so on. The
    cardholder can only answer: "yes", "no" or "more or less". They really enjoy this and it
    can be built on as vocabulary increases.

    Pictionary (or in Spanish I call it Picionario)

    Version one - a child draws something on the (interactive) whiteboard and their
    team/whole class has to guess what it is in the target language. Make sure they draw
    something you have taught!

    Version two - Each child has an A4 piece of paper and folds it into 8. They have
    coloured pencils.

    You then call out 8 objects linking to a topic or mixed, they have to draw the objects. At
    the end you can instruct them to "Muestra/Motnrez" and they show their drawings. They
    enjoy seeing which ones they got right.

    Teaching Food and Drink

    I use real items and pass them around the class. if this is not practicle then use flash
    cards. Also I used a worksheet with a list of fruit and vegetables and ask them to split
    them into fruit or vegetable. then they can write an idea for a soup, salad and juice. You
    can encourage horrible combinations like strawberry and onion soup, garlic and
    cabbage juice. If they have time to draw their invention even better!

    As a follow up, I give each child a paper plate and they draw and label food on i- e.g
    "Tapas", "Verduras" etc.

    Sheep Drawing

    This is a favourite with all ages of children (I did it with a mixed age class of adults and
    7-12 year olds). I have a collection of sheep of allsorts of colours and patterns but any
    toy animals could be used. The children sit back to back, one describes the animal and
    then the other has to draw it. Then they all show their efforts to the class. This
    reinforces colours, body parts and words such as stripes, spots, checks.

    Simple Maths
    If you are aware of your children’s ability in maths then simple sums can be used to
    reinforce numbers.

    Shops and Restaurants

    This may seem obvious for those who employ such strategies in KS1 but turning the
    classroom into a French restaurant or Spanish market with a few props and giving
    children chance to interact in role (with some props to help) really works wonders for
    language retention and they enjoy and remember it too. So get an old tablecloth and
    start saving boxes and jars!'

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