Learnnewvocabulary

Goals

Learning outcome

• To learn new vocabulary in Portuguese • To match pictures and words

• Students (Sts) use new vocabulary in Portuguese to create sentences

Skills used

Steps

• Reading and listening • Writing and speaking

1. Give a copy of one of the blank slides/pages to each student. Their background has been dimmed on purpose so that students can write on the squares. Explain that the square grid will help them remember the images they are going to see next (there are 32 images organized in 8 rows). 2. Show slide/page 2 to students on the projector, or give a copy of slide/page one to each student. Tell students to observe the images closely for 3 minutes and try to remember as many as possible. 3. Move the slide show to the next blank slide, or ask Sts to put page 2 aside. Give them 3 more minutes to write down all the vocabulary they already know, and/or make a rough sketch of the pictures they don’t know the names for. 4. Check to see how many words/pictures Sts remembered. Ask Sts to help you label the pictures row by row (oral work). 5. Show slide/page 4 with all the vocabulary. Allow Sts to correct and complete their grid. Explore vocabulary and ask Sts to use 2 or more pictures in connection to build sentences.

Variations • On step 3 Sts may also write the corresponding words in English if they don’t know their equivalent in Portuguese. • Sts help teacher create the paper “dice” as a class project. • Instead of standing, Sts can sit in a circle for the game.

Follow up • Sts play a word game using handmade paper “dice” (dados volantes) with all the letters of the alphabet, pictures of objects, people, etc. related to the letters, and numbers 1-9. [See separate instructions on how to build the dice]. • Divide the class in 2 groups. Sts stand in circles. Each group plays with one die at a time. They exchange dice after all the letters have been used at least twice. Each St throws the die in a forward, rolling motion, so that it turns in the air before another St catches it. • On catching the die, Sts say words beginning with the letters, or the name of the object, etc. [to remain in the game s/he must say at least the name of the letters]. • On the second round, Sts build sentences: “Dá-me uma sanduíche, por favor.”; “Ontem comi oito morangos.” “Estão cinco palavras escritas no quadro.” “Em Turlock não há zebras.”