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"Full-Body Hobbies" is a teaching idea that aims to engage the learners to move, get be creative and learn about their hobbies as well as their body parts all at once.
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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 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. (It can may be that they will students have brought that this point up during the first part of the game 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!
If you want to include multilingualism in your teaching, you could give the students a choice of either acting out the hobby or saying it the name of the hobby in a different language.
