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2.11- Festa Junina- Get to Know You Party Questions

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1. In this activity, the teacher writes four tasks on the blackboard. After the teacher has the students write their names and the answers on a piece of paper. The students need to memorize the questions, since they will ask one another. The questions need be according the level the students.

For example: Where are you from?

How old are you?

What´s your favorite color?

What kind of food do you like?

2. The students stand up in a line in front of one another. The students start to ask the classmates that is in front of them the memorized questions. 3. While the students are talking, Teacher say “Switch” and the first student changes the place. Attention: that only one like will be changing their place. The game finishes when all the students have returned back to the first place where they started. 4. The teacher can brainstorm a list of words with the class before starting the competition. For example:

Bahia Ana 25

Green Lasagna

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Acknowledgement: Jussivania Batista, 2014 Teacher at the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial - Cuiabá - Mato Grosso.

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6.4 – Peekaboo Haiku�

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Level Beginner to advanced Age Any Materials Pen and Paper Time 20-30 minutes depending on student level

Procedure 1. Split students into partners and ensure that everyone has a pen and a piece of paper. Tell them that they will be leaving the classroom and each person will give their partner the “gift” of a single snapshot or view of something on campus. 2. Students have five minutes to guide their partner to something interesting to see. If desired, the first student may cover the other’s eyes (hence the peekaboo name) until they reach their chosen location. Once the desired location has been picked, the second student will write down as many words as they can think of to describe the scene and the moment. After five minutes, the students switch and the student that was writing takes the student to a new site. After the second student has finished creating their word list, both students return to the classroom. 3. In the classroom, introduce the Haiku conceptually and its two basic structural rules (1. Fit your poem into a three-line format 2. Those lines will have 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively), providing examples as desired. After introducing the haiku conceptually, students will write a haiku based on the vocabulary they’ve written while outside (syllable counting skills such as the chin method may be helpful). 4. After students have finished, the teacher may hold a poetry slam and/or encourage students to give their poems to their partners as a thank-you for sharing the view with them. Variation 1. If possible, encourage students to use phones to take pictures of their snapshots, these can then accompany the poems and be shared with the class. Acknowledgement��&RQQRU�3LHUVRQ�±�����������)XOEULJKW�(QJOLVK�7HDFKLQJ�$VVLVWDQW�DW�WKH�)HGHUDO�8QLYHUVLW\�RI�3DUDíED��LQ�-RDR�3HVVRD��%UD]LO��

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8.10 – Show and Tell Game

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8.11 – Movie Making Cultural Exchange Language Skills Developed Interrogative questions Age 11 and up Level Intermediate to Advanced

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8.13 – Find Someone Who… Scavenger Hunt

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11.4 – Rock, Paper, Scissors…Shoot!

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Megan Meyerson graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University with a K-12 Spanish Education degree. After spending a semester as a substitute teacher in the Lincoln Public

Schools district, she accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brasil. She spent 9 months teaching for Inglês Sem Fronteiras, a program at the Universidade

Federal de Sergipe that prepares students for the exam necessary to study in the United States. Along with teaching classes at the University, Megan volunteered at Nossa Escola, a private elementary school, where she taught students whose ages ranged from 6-12 years old. Megan currently resides in Lincoln, Nebraska where she is a Spanish teacher at a local high

school.

Armen Kassabian is an English and French Teacher in New York City. He is studying for his Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Long Island

University and in Bilingual Childhood Education at Hunter College. He graduated with a Bachelors in International Development and Social Change and Contemplative Practice in

Education from Clark University. After subbing in the New York City Schools for three years, he accepted a position to work for the French Government in Martinique in 2012. He later

accepted a position to work as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in 2014, for the American and Brazilian governments, working for English Without Borders program at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. He currently teaches for the New York City Board of

Education.

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