Monster Drawing
Outline: Students use their knowledge of English colors, numbers, body parts, and shapes (optional)
to draw a monster based upon the ALT's description.
Teaching Suggestions:
Sometimes the HRT becomes excited, probably from understanding simple English sentences, and starts translating your description into Japanese. Encourage the HRT to participate by drawing the monster, not explaining it to the students, as it defeats the point of this activity.
Procedure:
- Hand out scratch paper to each student. You shouldn't have to supply crayons because the students should have their own.
- Quickly review colors, numbers to 10, and if students seem up to the challenge, shapes.
- You might want to draw on the board the order of adjectives which you will describe the monster --number, color, then body part.
- Then, start making statements like, “My monster has one big round blue body,” or, “My monster has three orange triangle heads.”
- Explain slowly, and demonstrate on the chalkboard how the students should be drawing their monsters. The placement of body parts is up to students so long as they have the correct number and colors.
Variations:
Draw your own monster while you explain it to the students and compare pictures when finished.
If time permits, have the students name their monsters. Have the HRT write the categories - cute, scary, cool and weird - on the chalkboard. Then, you and the HRT choose a category for each picture and attach them to the chalkboard. BTW, usually the boys will draw scary, cool, and weird pictures, while the girls will draw "cute monsters," if there is such a thing.
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