Творческая деятельность как один из аспектов в обучении английскому языку. Artactivities as one of the aspects in teaching English

There are unlimited advantages to using the visual arts for developing English language learning skills. The arts can be a source of inspiration, imagination, and motivation for learners. They can engage students in a variety of themes, subjects, and issues, as well as introduce learners to new ways of seeing the world. Most importantly, the arts can provide students with a voice in a world where they have limited English proficiency.

The arts can be used as a tool to build and strengthen English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills and develop the confidence students need to take risks and explore within a new language. The arts taken into the language classroom make English accessible and understandable.

This is one of the sample lessons for the teachers. The theme is “Food. Yummy, Yummy!”. Guessing game using yes/no questions and adjectives

Objectives: Students will ask questions and respond with answers in a food guessing game and will use descriptive adjectives in an information gap drawing activity.

Level: Beginner to Low Intermediate

Materials: Sculpting dough (various colors if possible), pencils, paper, and tape. Optional: markers, crayons, colored pencils, or images or samples of fruits and vegetables.

Teacher Preparation: 1. Photocopy the fruit and vegetable images. Cut each fruit or vegetable picture out and tape it to a note card. Another option is to find your own fruit and vegetable images to use, or draw fruits and vegetables on note cards. Each note card should have only one fruit or vegetable on it. Make sure there are enough cards for every student in your class.

2. If possible, make sculpting dough for students to use in this activity. Sculpting dough recipes are included in Appendix C. (If materials for sculpting dough are not available, students can complete this activity as a drawing activity.)

3. If possible, duplicate the mind map template in the Reproducible Worksheet section. 4. Prepare the signs for the human graph activity in Part Four.

Art Options: If sculpting dough is not available, this activity can be completed as a drawing or painting activity. Students can draw a fruit or vegetable with pencils, crayons, markers, or colored pencils. If tempera or watercolor paints are available, students can make a fruit or vegetable painting.

INSTRUCTIONS: Fruit and Vegetable Warm-Up Activity

1. Make fruit or vegetable cards before playing this game.

2. Depending on the level of your students, review the names of the fruits and vegetables, adjectives that might describe the fruits or vegetables, and the words for colors, shapes, or sizes of the fruits and vegetables.

3. Mix the cards up and tape one fruit or vegetable card on the back of each student.

4. Tell students that when you say “Go!” they must walk around the classroom and find a partner. The pair should then ask yes/no questions to try to figure out which fruit or vegetable is taped on their backs. Possible yes/no questions may include the following:

Is it a vegetable?

Is it sweet?

Is it salty?

Is it red?

Is it a small fruit (or vegetable)?

Is it large?

Is it bitter?

Do you eat the vegetable (or fruit) with a fork?

Do you eat it with a spoon?

Does it grow in the ground?

Does it grow on a tree?