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LDMA · 11th February 2005, 12:00

Here's this weeks M3 Activity - Posers

Aim to practise body moving commands, and revise emotions and feelings vocab.

Drill the following only making the actions if no-one gets it.

Stand up
Sit down
(x3 just to annoy them)

Put your left hand up
Put your left hand down
(repeat with right)
Put both hands up

Put both hands down a little bit
Put your left hand up a little bit
(play with this concept a couple more times)

Lift your head up/down (a little bit)

Put your arms out to the front

Put your arms out to the side (watch them all smack each other - do that a few times for the sake of it.) Try 'a little bit ' as well.

Roll your eyes up, roll your eyes down, roll your eyes from side to side.

Smile
Frown
Open your mouth
Close your mouth
Open your eyes
Close your eyes.

Smile and open your mouth together (very funny)
Frown and open your mouth

Put your left/right hand on your _________ head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, forehead, stomach, heart, hips, bottom. (Do these commands in various combinations.)

After this students should be exhausted...let them sit down.

Write the vocab up on the board or give out a hand out with it on.

Optional extra. Tell the students to command you the same way that you commanded them, just let them have a bit of fun at teachers expense for 5 minutes ast they make you walk about with you head up in the air hand on head and mouth open grinning inanely. If that's too demeaning for you I understand...my s's loved it.

Put s's in pairs and have one command the other for 5 minutes, then swap them over for another 5 minutes.

Teach the word statue and sculptor. Write 'Make a happy person' Get a volenteer to stand up and sculpt them into a happy person (put your head up a little bit, put your lefthand up a little bit, smile. ) Them make them hold it for 15 seconds.

Demonstrate one more time with "sad" on another student (put your left hand on your eyes, put your head down, frown, open your mouth)

Next get two students to stand up and the second student should command the first student with another emotion. Get it to the stage where they get it more or less.

Then write a list of emotions and feelings on the board put them into new pairs and ask them to take turns to pose their friends into the emoptions and feelings you wrote. Halfway through ask them to swap.

Monitor and pick the best ones you see to demonstrate at the front of the class.

Word ideas

happy, sad, crazy, surprised, shocked, angry, hot, cold, bored, tired etc....

11th February 2005, 12:00	#17 (permalink)
LDMA LDMA is not impressed with -5C Admin Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Soi Yok, Muang Peung Posts: 11,140 vCash: 5737 Blog Entries: 7 Rep Power: 200	Here's this weeks M3 Activity - Posers Aim to practise body moving commands, and revise emotions and feelings vocab. Drill the following only making the actions if no-one gets it. Stand up Sit down (x3 just to annoy them) Put your left hand up Put your left hand down (repeat with right) Put both hands up Put both hands down a little bit Put your left hand up a little bit (play with this concept a couple more times) Lift your head up/down (a little bit) Put your arms out to the front Put your arms out to the side (watch them all smack each other - do that a few times for the sake of it.) Try 'a little bit ' as well. Roll your eyes up, roll your eyes down, roll your eyes from side to side. Smile Frown Open your mouth Close your mouth Open your eyes Close your eyes. Smile and open your mouth together (very funny) Frown and open your mouth Put your left/right hand on your _________ head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, forehead, stomach, heart, hips, bottom. (Do these commands in various combinations.) After this students should be exhausted...let them sit down. Write the vocab up on the board or give out a hand out with it on. Optional extra. Tell the students to command you the same way that you commanded them, just let them have a bit of fun at teachers expense for 5 minutes ast they make you walk about with you head up in the air hand on head and mouth open grinning inanely. If that's too demeaning for you I understand...my s's loved it. Put s's in pairs and have one command the other for 5 minutes, then swap them over for another 5 minutes. Teach the word statue and sculptor. Write 'Make a happy person' Get a volenteer to stand up and sculpt them into a happy person (put your head up a little bit, put your lefthand up a little bit, smile. ) Them make them hold it for 15 seconds. Demonstrate one more time with "sad" on another student (put your left hand on your eyes, put your head down, frown, open your mouth) Next get two students to stand up and the second student should command the first student with another emotion. Get it to the stage where they get it more or less. Then write a list of emotions and feelings on the board put them into new pairs and ask them to take turns to pose their friends into the emoptions and feelings you wrote. Halfway through ask them to swap. Monitor and pick the best ones you see to demonstrate at the front of the class. Word ideas happy, sad, crazy, surprised, shocked, angry, hot, cold, bored, tired etc.... __________________ LDMA - Ajarn Forum Admin I like ajarn.com. It is a fun place. I was going to get out my list of great grievances, grandiose gripes, grand groans, grave grumbles and my granduer of grating grim grisly grime, but I won't, because I can't stop growing with the gruesome gritty grubby and grotesque grin. Duncecap