Proposal 1: Help the vampire find his friends!
Social organisation
Pairs.
Timing
15 minutes.
Objectives
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Follow numerical series and patterns.
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Play a game they already know, the domino, in a foreign language.
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Produce a short sentence to describe the cards, orally.
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Express whether they won on lost the game, both orally and in a written format.
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Play fairly and accept the result.
Content
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Comprehension of simple instructions accompanied by visual supports.
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Writing of words from oral productions.
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Use of verbal and non-verbal resources to communicate with others.
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Relation of symbols, pronunciation and meaning from written models and oral expressions. Intuitive use of decoding.
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Comprehension and use of counting strategies.
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Numerical series and patterns.
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Use of verbal, graphic and symbolic language to represent numbers.
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Collaborative work.
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Vocabulary related to carnival characters: ghost, vampire, batman, pirate, zombie, skeleton
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Vocabulary: I win/ I loose
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Structure: I have got…
Description
Students are introduced to the vampire’s friends. They help him find his friends by playing domino and using all of the pieces. Each domino piece includes the number, and the corresponding number of characters (e.g.: number 5 and 5 ghosts). While playing, students depict the piece they are using. E.g.: “I have got 5 ghosts and 3 pirates”. Once they finish, they recall whether they are winners (“I win”) or not (“I loose”). They draw the pieces of the round, and write a brief sentence: I win/ I loose.
Material and scaffolding
Domino pieces:
Flashcards with the characters:
Flashcard with numbers:
Flashcard with vocabulary:
Attention to diversity
Flashcards with the vocabulary and the grammatical structures are available for students to be able to make sentences autonomously.
Assessment
Students complete the drawings and a brief sentence in the notebook.
Also, they do a self-assessment of whether they liked the activity or not by circling the face that better represents what they feel, and another self-assessment for the understanding of the activity by circling the image that better represents their understanding.
