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FAMILY DAY

OBJECTIVES

To tall about our family.
To value the importance of the family and express freely our feelings.
To explore ways of developing communicative language skills through activities related to Family's Day.
To know different art techniques and writing proposals to foster creativity.

CONTENTS

Different people different families.
Resources and ideas to promote English skills in the ESL classroom.
Development of hands-on activities to foster creativity and language skills.

WARM UP

Sweet questions: In order to get to know each other and to foster a nice atmosphere in the group class we fill a paper bag with candies wrapped in colored paper. A question is written in each paper. We say our name, take a sweet and answer the question.

ACTIVITIES TO INTRODUCE LANGUAGE AND CONTENT

Different people different families: Storytelling activity.

ACTIVITIES TO PRACTICE LANGUAGE OR TO REVISE CONTENT

Listen and guess: We show pictures of different families and talk about them. Key vocabulary is introduce. Then we describe a family and in teams they must guess. We write down useful descriptive expressions. Then, they play the game in small groups.

Family cards: Card game to form families at the same time they revise the vocabulary related to family members and structures such as "I've got..."

Snakes and ladders: The board game has questions students must answer to go forward.

TASKS TO PRODUCE LANGUAGE

Interview: They interview their classmate and try to find out how their families are.

Creative writing:

They bring a picture of their family and use it to describe. They can share their work with their classmates in small groups.
Cards for the one we love.

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Different frameworks with different materials: pompons, sweets, pasta, puzzle, magazines, buttons...