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Learning new vocabulary for the topics "Hobbies" and "Body Parts", moving/acting, getting being creative, defending one's own ideas.
Instructions to set up the activity
To prepare the activity, draw the shape of a person on a large piece of paper - it doesn't have to be life sized, but the closer to it, the better. The most important parts are the head, arms, legs, and optionally eyes, ears and a mouth (a perfect drawing isn't necessary). AditionallyAdditionally, prepare post-its with different hobbies written on them, e.g. badminton, playing the trumpet, playing video games. The number of post-its can vary according to the length of your lesson, . I used sixteen hobbies for a twelve-minute lesson. Depending on the learner's English level, you can prepare vocabulary pictures to help with some new words.
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- Tape your paper-person to the wall and explain that this is a person with many hobbies. Then, ask the students what name they would give to this person. (this This is, of course, optional, but my group had fun choosing one).
- Let the students come up one by one and give them a post-it with a hobby written on it. The student then has to place it on the paper-person's body part with which they would do this activity (e.g. football → foot) and show the movement, in this case, kicking the ball, to the class.
- When all the post-its are stuck to the paper-person, ask the students if they can think of other body parts you do these activities with, maybe . (It can be that they will have brought that up during the first part already.)
- Let them come up one by one again to change the location of one post-it (e.g. football: foot → hand, because the goalie uses their hands) and then show that movement to the class again.
- When every post-it has a new spot, you are done!
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