Hobbies+and+Interests



= Hobbies and Interests =

Goals:
Students will be able to … talk about hobbies and interests express likes and dislikes  Students will know… appropriate vocabulary simple time markers, such as ‘in winter’

Summatives:

 * Interpersonal** – Discuss hobbies with a partner


 * Interpretive** – watch an interview of a native speaker discussing pastimes.


 * Presentational** – students will make a video of themselves for a ‘host family’ to introduce and provide interests.

Formatives:
Write a letter to a pen pal in which you introduce yourself and talk about your hobbies. Ask questions about your pen pal as well. **(interpersonal)** Channel Changing. Students perform a skit and someone changes the channel and another groups acts out their skit **. (Presentational)

Paper Texting. Write a note to a friend inviting him/her to do something on the weekend. Wad the paper up, throw around the classroom for 30 seconds. Pick up a wad of paper, open it up and read the suggestion. Write a sentence in which you have to turn down the plans and offer new ones. Wad it up and throw around again. Repeat the procedure a few times. Finally, come to an agreement about your weekend plans**. (Interpersonal)**

Draw a comic strip about yourself or make a little book and write about yourself with illustrations. Include hobbies, likes/dislikes, etc. It could also be thumbprint book. Students put their thumbprints down and use them for bodies. Good idea for kids who don’t like to draw. **(Presentational)**

With a couple of other students write a short skit about making and rejecting plans. Perform skit with puppets**. (Presentational)**

Cat walk/Vocabulary review. The students make an item that represents the vocabulary word they are reviewing. IF they win that word, they have to wear the item like a fashion show. (Ask Beth for better clarification) **(Presentational/Interpretive)**

Put students in a line facing you. Offer a choice between two different activities. Students must choose which one they prefer and step to the side of their choice. **(Interpretive)**

Put objects in a bag that represents hobbies and activities. Students draw out an object and must make a comment about the hobby or activity. **(Interpretive/Presentational)** Laminate pictures from magazines about people involved in hobbies and activities. Have students choose the picture of their choice an write a paragraph about it. **(Presentational) Search the internet for activities that you may want to try. Find of the pros and cons of the activity or hobby and discuss it with a partner. Ex.) skydiving **(Interpretive/Interpersonal)** Exile Island. There are 2 teams and each team draws for a leader/captain. The students are given a question and the first one who is right, the other team has to vote to send some to exile island. Rotate players to answer questions. (Ask Robert for clarification) **(Interpretive)

Relay Race. Put students in rows. Give each row a white board, a marker, and an eraser. The teacher will show a past time picture or give a phrase in English such as **I like to collect coins. The first person in the row or the last person if you so choose must write the correct phrase in the target language. IF the person does not know the answer, they must pass it to the next person of their team until the board reaches the last person on the team. The first team to have the correct answer gets a point. After each round the teacher should have the students rotate. **(Presentational)

Charades. List an activity on a piece of paper (I like to play golf) and put them into a hat. Students draw from the hat and they must act out the activity for the class. The student that guesses the activity is next. A variation that can be used is that students can perform in pairs. **(Presentational/Interpretive)** Pig game. Each student can have a pig game board or each team (2 per team) and the vocabulary is written on the pigs. The teacher says an activity and the students race to find it first**. (Interpretive)**

Alien interpretation. One student is an alien and another is a translator. The third student tries to understand what the alien is saying through his interpreter. (Ask Renee for clarification) (Interpersonal)

Have students interview other students in the classroom about their favorite hobbies or interests. Calculate the top 5 hobbies to share with the class in Spanish. (Interpersonal) Interview 2 to 3 Hispanic students in your school about their favorite hobbies. Find out if there are similarities or differences. (Interpersonal)

Have students make a booklet with pictures of themselves or graphics that represent popular pop culture hobbies or interests or teenagers in the ** 21st ** century. Students will share their booklets with a partner and ask questions. (Presentational/Interpretive)