Activity for creativity

         Hello! Today I want to talk about interesting activities in our class. Our teacher Raquel discovered a very interesting way to help children developing their acting ability and improve language skills. In this post I will write about some of them.

The first one was very interesting and useful even for us. It will be perfect if we should have a stage for this activity, but also it can be the place in front of the class. At first, every person should think about a sentence which he/she want to say to the classmates. Next, one by one every student will go to the stage (or another place) and say his/her name and also what he/she want to say (ex. My name is Alex, and I like cats), after it the student gets a lot of applause. We can organize this activity to help children not to be shy; it’s a good way to remember some grammar or vocabulary. In my opinion, during the applause after speech students feel themselves very happy. It’s very good for their self confidence! Also I think we can organize this activity in the first days of classes when children need to know more about each other and may be remember the classmates’ names.

Another activity, Photo album, is not only useful but also funny. We need a group of 6-8 students. Two of them are friends who meet after the holidays. One person shows to friend photos in an album and describing it. The partner can ask some question and describe pictures too. Others students are “photos”! They need to show the picture which friends are describing and talking about. So, students need to understand each other for a successful result. From my point of view, children will like this activity! They can communicate; develop some acting skills and language. Teacher can give the students real photos to help them, and also we can give students some subjects for photo for better interpreting.

The last activity which I want to talk about today involves our own vocabulary with the students.  This work is for the whole group of students. One by one students need to say the one word which will be the story! It’s a little bit difficult, in my opinion. But the teacher can choose the topic to help students remember some vocabulary. This task is useful to improve and develop language skills, imagination and creativity.

I think we can use all these activities in our lessons in different interpretations. All of them are unusual, interesting and useful!  We can use them in the literature lessons like a part of the theater, to help children develop acting skills and have an experience of speeches in front of the class! What do you think about it?

P.S. The opinion of readers can not coincide with the author’s opinion.