Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"Have got" and valenciano

I prepared my first classroom activity for my 6th grade students today. Since they are practicing with "have got," I decided to have them do any interactive activity where they would need to ask other students questions using "have got." For this activity, each student got a slip of paper with two animals written on it (these animals were review from last year). They had to get up and ask each student if they had the same animals or not. For example, if I had a lion and a zebra, I had to ask other students, "Have you got a lion? Have you got a zebra?" Once they found their partner, they had to sit down and write a sentence about what they had. For instance, my partner and I would have written, "We have got a lion and a zebra." I thought this would be a fun activity for the students because they generally do most of their work at their desks and it forced students to use the grammatical structure "have got" a lot! It went pretty well for my first activity on my own! Since my teacher had asked me to keep it short, I didn't add any other follow up activities, but she ended up adding a few exercises related to my activity.
After school, I went to the Escuela de idiomas (School of Languages). As part of my side project here, I'm planning on studying valenciano (Valencian) and the cheapest place to do this is at the Escuela de idiomas. This school is sponsored by the government which allows them to offer classes at a much lower rate. However, classes have already started so I can't register at the moment. Nevertheless, on October 3rd, they will opening the classes back up if there are any vacancies. So on Monday morning, I'm going to go early to see if I can get into an evening valenciano class!

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