World Language Curriculum Guide

Sports and Leisure Activities

  Topic: Sports & Leisure Activities
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  Identify various sports, express preferences. - Model target vocabulary with a variety of prompts/materials.

- Model correct pronunciation and structures.

- Ask questions in the target language and then model appropriate responses using gestures to help clarify their meaning.

- Provide "situations" for which students will need to act out a dialogue/skit.

- Make up skits.

- Develop accurate pronunciation through class drill.

- Create flashcards.

- Respond to questions using appropriate structures.

- Develop dialogues in pairs or small groups.

 

- Evaluate student conversation.

- Evaluate verbal student responses.

- Evaluate performances of students in skits, dialogues, role playing, videos.

 

- Produce a sports video or play by play broadcast.

- Converse with native speakers (community members, exchange students, pen-pals, Internet).

- Produce a children's book related to Sports and Leisure.

- Write a song or cheer for sport.

- Design a cartoon, mural, etc. related to Sports and Leisure.

 

- Posters.

- Total Physical Fun

- AV materials (Films, video, cassettes, CD-rom).

- Puppets.

- Teacher-generated materials.

- Appropriate props.

 
Topic: Sports & Leisure Activities
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  Identify needs of various sports.

 

- Direct student question and replies through drill and repetition going around class to each individual student.

- Use a variety of AV material (Film, CD-roms like Rosetta Stone, cassettes, etc.)

 

- Construct a graphic organizer identifying sport with necessary equipment, personnel, time and cost.

- Complete teacher-generated materials individually or in groups.

- Evaluate oral and written presentations.

- Quizzes/Tests.

 

 

- Model, role play in pairs spontaneously in front of class.

- Interactive homework (involving family or friend).

- Dress a doll or model for specific sport from target culture. Describe.

 

- Flashcards.

- Textbooks and supporting written material.

- Appropriate research materials

(books, pamphlets, newspaper, periodicals interview, Internet, etc.).

 

 
Topic: Sports & Leisure Activities
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  Identify and describe various sporting events as well as the country(s)'s most popular sport.

 

- Identify sports of target culture through text and picture.

- Provide teacher generated materials to reinforce proficiency.

- Facilitate classroom discussion by

providing prompts.

- Facilitate in class reading and writing activities.

 

Read/research appropriate materials in preparation for classroom discussion/activity/written assignment.

 

Evaluate performance on teacher-generated activities/materials.

 

Research and report on a sports figure from target culture. Write a biography to share with class or publish in class version of Sports Illustrated.

 

- Internet sites.

- Periodicals.

 

 
Topic: Sports & Leisure Activities
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  Compare/contrast sports and leisure activities in target culture with U. S. and others

 

Same strategies as above but incorporating advanced grammar, vocabulary and structures.

 

Write an essay comparing sport from target culture with one from another culture. Same as above evaluating advanced grammar and structures as well as vocabulary and pronunciation.

 

Same as above incorporating advanced grammar, vocabulary and structures.

 

Same as above.

 

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