Students create sentences in pairs using the words in a grid by moving through adjoining cells in the grid. It must be adapted to the class' particular text. Students read or listen to clues about five characters and collect information in a table that will later allow them to answer questions about these individuals. A students describes an imaginary friend to another student who in turn describes the friend to another, and so on. At the end of the activity we see how much the descriptions have changed through repetition.
Students work in pairs to describe someone or tell a story.
All of the pairs talk at the same time, but only one student in the pair talks. Mr. Jones also has a section devoted to holiday themes. These pages have fun activities for language learners as well as links to other sites that provide a wealth of cultural information about the holidays. They do, however, provide FL educators with a place to begin if they wish to incorporate Cooperative Learning in their classroom to enhance student learning. These pages are illustrative of the time and effort one can invest in planning creative lessons for the FL classroom.