Elkar ezagutzera! Let's get to know each other!
About the Boise State World Languages Resource Center (WLRC) Language Activity Repository
The activities provided by the Boise State World Languages Resource Center (WLRC) serve as foundational activities which can be adapted by any language and scaled up or down on the proficiency scale.
This activity was created by upper-division language students working in the World Languages Resource Center at Boise State University. Our activities seek to help students solidify their interpersonal speaking and interpretive listening skills through task-based situations or communicative activities. We recommend using these activities to help reinforce the content students are learning, allowing the students time to feel comfortable using the unit’s vocabulary and grammar structures through application. Further, these activities should be facilitated in approximately 90% (or more) in the target language, per the recommendation of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Using the WLRC Repository’s Activities:
When you are ready to begin remixing the activity, in order to adapt it for your target language and audience, simply click the “Remix This Resource” button at the top of your screen. The text provided in purple is a suggestion of what you might say to your students and should be changed to the target language.
Most activities contain a connected chapter, two to three “NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do” statements, a warm-up, main activity, and a wrap-up. In addition to the instructions, some activities may include a “cheat sheet” containing the target vocabulary and grammar structures emphasized in the activity. Though most of the lab materials are provided, a computer, projector, printer, and laminator may also be needed to fully utilize materials.
Many of the activities include printable cards and other instructional materials. If you would like to adapt these materials for your language, please email pathwaysproject@boisestate.eduand we will provide you with an editable copy. For YouTube videos and other websites, hyperlinks are provided.
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Elkar ezagutzera! Let's get know each other!
Level:
Novice Mid
Description
In this activity, students will get to know each other by asking different questions in relation to their hobbies and their lives. This way they will learn each other's preferences.
Can-Do Statements
- I can exchange basic information about me and my interests
- I can introduce myself
- I can share my preferences with others
World-Readiness Standards
- Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Basque on a variety of topics.
Idaho State Content Standards
- COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
Google Slideshow
Keywords:
Basque, euskera, description, hobbies, zein da zure () gustukoena?
Wrap-up
Lead-in or Warm-up (2-3 minutes):
Warm-up:
Give a whiteboard and a marker to each student.
They will play the game “one word.” The rule is that the students can only use one word to answer the question. First they will write down their response and then share it with the group. You can use the questions (in the ppt) and make up their own.
Main Activity
Today we are going to share a few things about our hometowns. It is the place where you start your life, the city where someone grows up. For example, my hometown is _____.”
Have students use Google Images to find an “illustrated map” of the city they were born in. Students will act as tour guides. They will describe their favorite places or their hometown to the group.
Distribute a hometown question card to each student and put them in pairs.
After they've shared with their partners, have them share one thing they learned to the group.