These authentic resources support a unit about clothing and shopping in Spanish.
This chapter will cover clothing, colors, adjectives to describe people and things. Invariable adjectives, adjectives that come before noun.Qu'est-ce que tu portes?Presents clothing, possessive adjectives,,places in town with allerReviewing professions
This lesson for Arabic 2 . Grade 10 and I use TPRS to teach it.
What kind of clothing do you wear; jeans, a t-shirt, socks, and sneakers? Be able to describe your clothing style using the vocabulary for clothing items as well as the adjectives and colors you have already learned in previous seminars. You will also be able to walk into stores or look at others to identify clothing items in Spanish.ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal Communication, Interpretive CommunicationCultures: Relating Cultural Practices to Perspectives, Relating Cultural Products to PerspectivesConnections: Making ConnectionsComparisons: Cultural ComparisonsCommunities: School and Global CommunitiesLearning TargetI can list items I see every day.Habits of MindApplying past knowledge to new situationsCritical Thinking SkillConstruct Meaning
This activity allows students to practice describing vocabulary words using memorized descriptors. Students will learn more ways to describe items and topics.
This art history video discussion examines the "Coronation Mantle" likely made for the Norman ruler Roger II in 1133/34 in the royal workshop in Palermo of fabric from Byzantium or Thebes, Samite, silk, gold, pearls, filigree, sapphires, garnets, glass, and cloisonne enamel.
This activity is designed to introduce novice-level unit about clothing and shopping. Students use the website for El Corte Inglés (a department store in Spain) to discover clothing vocabulary and shop for clothing.
Critical Language Service offers playlists with video lessons that explain the material in Alif Baa, Al-Kitaab 1 (through lesson 11), and a series on Egyptian vocabulary. Videos designed for the Alif Baa series focus on stories to illustrate new vocabulary while the series designed for Al-Kitaab explains grammatical concepts introduced in the books, and demonstrate proper pronunciation. They also offer a playlist of 60 cartoon episodes in Arabic.
CultureTalk - Arab World features native speakers from across the Arabic-speaking world giving filmed interviews, in Arabic and sometimes English, on selected topics. Text-based translations and transcriptions are often provided as downloadable documents for most Arabic videos. The videos engage a number of region/country-specific topics, including cultural traditions, religion, politics, and sports.
CultureTalk - Arab World features native speakers from across the Arabic-speaking world giving filmed interviews, in Arabic and sometimes English, on selected topics. Text-based translations and transcriptions are often provided as downloadable documents for most Arabic videos. The videos engage a number of region/country-specific topics, including cultural traditions, religion, politics, and sports.
In this design activity, students investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and clothing. Teams design and analyze different combinations of materials for effectiveness in specific weather conditions. Analysis includes simulation of temperature, wind and wetness elements, as well as the functionality and durability of final prototypes.
In this activity, students will be describing their partners imaginary outfit with "French slang" and also shopping online for clothes. Students will learn more about slang and online shopping in French culture. Students will also learn about clothing choices.
In this activity, students will practice describing appearances to each other. Students will play a virtual fashion show for their warm-up before moving on to a game of "Guess Who" with a partner.
Film and Discussion Questions for Wadjda
"An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest."
In this activity, students will be describing themselves and what they are wearing to their group members. Students will also be viewing pronunciation videos to practice.
Students combine art, gaming culture and engineering by fabricating light-up patches to increase youngsters’ visibility at night. The open-ended project is presented as a hypothetical design challenge: Students are engineers who have been asked by a group of parents whose children go out Pokémon hunting at night to create glowing patches that they adhere to clothing or backpacks to help vehicle drivers see the kids in the dark. Student pairs create Pokémon character stencil designs cut from iron-on fabric patches, adding transparent layers for color. Placed over an EL (electroluminescent) panel that is connected to a battery pack, the stencils create glowing designs. Each team creates a circuit, which includes lengthening the EL panel wiring to make it easier to wear. Then they sew/adhere the patches onto hoodies, messenger bags, hats, pockets or other applications they dream up. The project concludes with team presentations as if to an audience of project clients. Keep the project simple by hand cutting and ironing/sewing, or use cutting machines, laser cutters and sewing machines, if available.
This activity allows students to practice asking each other questions related to who someone is. Students will practice answering questions about physical characteristics.
This activity can be used to combine weather and clothing in a speaking activity. Students will use a weather forecast to discuss the clothing they need to pack for a trip and why. Student pairs will receive a weather forecast for 8 days in Germany. They will then have to discuss what clothing they will need for the trip and why. Together they should write down the clothing items in the suitcase template provided.
