(Insert the student's name and some kind of activity that the student can do. Here are some ideas: hop, skip, do jumping jacks, growl like a bear, find the letter T, point to your ear, crawl, etc. You get the point!)
Person #2: Yes, I can ____________________!
(This person should answer and repeat what was requested of them. Then they will do the activity.
Example:
#1: Juan, can you touch your toes?
#2: Yes, I can touch my toes! (and then he shows me)
This is a great simple activity to use with language learning students. With this activity we practice a lot of different communication skills. One of the hardest things for kids, especially young ones and language learners, is answering a question in a complete sentence. I bet you have heard this before. How are you? Good. We should really be encouraging our students to speak in full sentences even to answer a question. I like to write the sentence frame on a sentence strip and then laminate it so we can reuse it. We can then write the name and activity on the sentence strip, and then read what we wrote. Then we can erase and think of another activity. Be sure that students get the opportunity to ask and answer questions during this activity. Also, it is a good idea to have a list of actions or activities for students to choose from in case they get stuck. Sometimes it is hard to come up with ideas off the top of your head!
Here are the skills we practice with this simple activity:
- Orally asking questions
- Orally answering questions in complete sentences
- Exchange of dialogue between two people
- Sentence structure and grammar
- Listening comprehension
- Speaking with expression
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