Greetings & Introducing Yourself (7th Grade)

Hello Hello! For this post I thought of some activities for the 7th Grade topic, Greetings and Introductions.

I tested these activities out on Prezi and was really surprised how many cool tools this page has! 
Click on this link ----->PREZI and Enjoy my Prezi presentation about Greetings and Introductions!


I used all of the 4 skills so there's no need to go else where to make sure you covered your students' reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. 

I have a few ideas in mind for games you can incorporate into the presentation. 

• For the 1st Slide labeled "Costa Rica," introduce the topic by asking your students what are some common ways of greeting people in Costa Rica (between friends, family, or strangers.)

• Next, pick out students to read 1 sentence at a time. 
• Where ever there is a bold word with an asterisk, click to the next slide because the definition is going to show up next.  
• By clicking next, you'll be taken back to the short paragraph for the next student to read. 

• The same happens when reading about China. 

• Next the class will watch a video from Misterduncan from English on saying Hello & Goodbye. 
• You can stop the video whenever you want to ask your students questions however I have thought of some stops for you with questions. 

1. The first pause would be right before Misterduncan starts talking about greeting people when you are in a hurry. 
2. The next slide is a question.
1. This will give you a chance to "popcorn" your students with a stuffed pillow and ask them different ways to 
• say hello
• say a double greeting
• say a 1st time meeting greeting
• say a long time no see greeting. 

• The next slide will take you back to the video for the class to keep watching. 

• Again you will pause after Misterduncan has talking about greetings in a rush. 
• Ask your students if they can think of other ways to greet people when you are in a rush!

• Back to the video, for the last section which is all about "good-byes." 
• Click on the slide and it'll take you to a question for you to ask what were some of the ways that people can say bye. 

• Time to review the vocabulary words that were in bold from earliers reading sections about Argentina & China

• Time to learn how to introduce yourself! 
• Click: Watch the video on how to introduce yourself. 

• Click:As a class answer the questions and practice introducing themselves. 
• This is a great opportunity to incorporate a game. 
1. Have the students play "hot potato" in a circle with a toy while you play some music or tap on a desk. 
2. Whoever has the toy in their hand once the music or tapping stops has to introduce themselves. 
3. You can either have the students sit down once they have participated or keep playing, that's up to you.  

• To finish off such a great topic, ask the students to write a short dialogue or essay having to do with the topic. 

Let me know how it went if you used my presentation. I would love to hear from you!