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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

"Who am I?" Game to Teach Greeting Questions




I grew up playing the game "Who am I?" where everyone in a group takes a sticky note and writes down the name of a famous person. Each person gives their sticky card to someone else (without them seeing) and places it on their forehead. Each person takes turns asking yes or no questions to guess who is written on their note. I used this game as inspiration for teaching greeting questions. I used Hedbanz and replace the cards with images of different teachers in the school with answers based on the question I am asking. Listed are the ways I played for each question:


¿Cómo te llamas? What's your name?
I started with this question because everyday the students ask me ¿Cómo estás? as a part of our greeting routine, so I did not want to focus a lesson on that question. I gave students cards with 5 adults in the building they knew (including myself) and students all put on the headbands, placing a card on the headband without looking. Students practiced asking the question ¿Cómo te llamas? while the person being asked the question took a guess as to who was depicted on their card (i.e. "Me llamo Señorita Ross.") If the student guessed the wrong person, the other students in the group would again ask ¿Cómo te llamas? until the person guessing got it correct. Students take turn asking each other questions.


¿Cuántos años tienes? How old are you?
The next lesson I taught the question ¿Cuántos años tienes? This version of the game is the same except I only gave students two people on the cards, but each person could be one of 3 ages (5, 10, or 15). Students have to guess who they are first by being asked ¿Cómo te llamas? If they guess correctly, they are then asked ¿Cuántos años tienes? Students respond with the three different age options (i.e. "Tengo 5 años.")
¿Qué deporte te gusta? What sport do you like?
Very similarly to the last game, with the question ¿Qué deporte te gusta? I used 5 different people on the cards and had students first guess 'who' using ¿Cómo te llamas?  They then had to guess which sport the person on the card liked using the phrase "Me gusta ____ (guessing which adult.)"

Other questions:
Now you can use a similar format to ask the questions (in the target language):
Where are you from?
What ____ do you like? (food, subject, game, etc.)
What is your favorite _____ ? (food, subject, game, etc.)

Videos:
I always try to include a different accent through music or videos in my classroom. I found Calico Spanish videos to be the best for questions. Here are a few of my favorites:



 Template:
 If you'd like to use a template for any of these cards I have a copy of all the materials I used in my TPT store: click here

Books:
Here are a couple of books the might be a great acompanyment to this lesson: