Meeting the Needs of English Learners in After School Programs

Part 3:Recreation Time

Review

• On a post it, write down two ideas that you remember from the previous training (2 minutes)

• Each group will share one thing with the whole group

Objectives

• Learn activities to use with English Leaners to practice English during Recreation Time

Nutrition Activity

Key Terms Activity

Can be used with students or in planning with a partner

•With an elbow partner discuss the rules of your favorite sport•As you are listening to your partner, write down key terms of what is being explained

Graphic Organizers

Sportsmanship Activity

• Turn to an elbow partner (preferably someone you know)

• Write down three compliments about that person

• Share compliments with each other

• Practice with students complimentary phrases that can be used during recreation time

Sports IdiomsIdiom - an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own

Chick-isms:Air-ballBoo-birdsBunny hop in the pea patchCaught with his hand in the cookie jarCharity stripeCouldn’t throw a pea into the oceanCount if it goesDidn’t draw ironFinger rollIce water in his veinsGive and goThe mustard’s off the hot dogSlam dunkThis game is in the refrigerator…

With your Table:•You will have two minutes to write as many sports idioms as you can think of

Stretch Your Vocabulary• Front load students

with muscle vocabulary (hamstring, quadriceps, etc…)

• Use correct vocabulary when conducting stretching exercises

• Have students call out the muscles being stretched