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Readalong week 2
Still not reading yet - it'll probably be another week or two, we're still in the thematic set up (plus also catching up from february)...
Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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More Charades: Silent Sentence Acting
I love this. I've done it at every level, the sentences are sometimes a mess, the whole thing is hilarious, and it helps them with the...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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Spinners and Speaking
Wheelofnames.com is one of my favorite websites. You can customize what items are on the wheel (and the colors, if that's your jam. it is...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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Scene Charades
Warning: some prep (though not a huge amount) involved. I love charades. It's great for discrete vocab rehearsal, it's funny, and it gets...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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Vocab Review, Silly Questions, and a Die
Be warned - this is high output, but you could probably modify it down if you wanted them to be producing less unscaffolded language. I...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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(Pre-)reading Without Words
Many of us use gestures or hand signs of some variety to associate with vocabulary words. I've been thinking a lot recently about the...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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Alea iacta est - vocab review
This is an extremely simple, pretty low-prep vocab review game that happens in pairs or groups. It can take five minutes or an hour, and...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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An activity for new vocabulary
This is not something I would do with a class that doesn't have a good sense of humor. I wanted to introduce several new vocabulary words...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 min read
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Angeli et Diaboli
I got this years ago from a workshop with Jason Fritze. It's the Peruvian (?! Jason, correct me!) version of tag, I think. I own several...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Uses For OWATS
OWATs - or One Word at a Time stories - are the brainchild of Bob Patrick. Essentially, their purpose is to allow students to be creative...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Oh, no! Poor Joe!
There's a great scene in the movie Dave (Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, if you've never seen it, there are your weekend plans; you're...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Three Snaps
Today I was taught a game by a student. He calls it three snaps. I don't know that I would do this with my first years (at least not...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 min read
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Musical Chairs
No one is too old for musical chairs. My Latin I students have recently acquired what feels to them (and probably is) like a huge amount...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Cobbled Sentences
This is an activity I love to do, but it's important to be very careful about how we do it lest it either a. make so little sense as to...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Concentration 64
I have several students who spend their lunchtimes in my room, and I like to watch them and see what games they play, either verbally or...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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I don't have a catchy name for this game at all
I do not have a catchy name for this. If you have one, tell me. You can really use this for whatever you want, but I like to use it for...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Show and Tell
There's been a lot of discussion on Ben Slavic's PLC about games not really promoting CI, and that's pretty true. A lot of games do not...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20205 min read
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