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The Active Learning basically means that students are involved in the planned activities,
they use all their skills in order to learn in a meaningful way the contents. This kind or
learning encourage students to solve problems, manipulate materials, develop critical
thinking, produce synthesis and evaluate information. Therefore, the activities planned
should be as interactive as possible and catch the learners attention.
The active strategy that I found very useful in my ELE lessons is the role-play. I am
going to specify the situation in my classes where it took place.
Group: Beginners Spanish 0101
Topic: The restaurant (the food)
Development: To practice the vocabulary related to the food and the restaurant, the
activity proposed was the Restaurant Project. The students were distributed in four
groups and were given a guide (Index 1) with an example of a common Spanish
conversation in a restaurant, useful phrases for a customer and for a waiter/waitress
and two menus, one for the waiter/waitress where the dishes were detailed described
and one for the customer with the prices. They had to pick a Manager for the restaurant,
create its name and decide the kind of food that they were planning to sale. They had
time during one of the lessons to practice the target vocabulary and structures and to
receive assistance on how to pronounce certain words. The next class, we started the
role-play with the first two groups and the other two groups were the customers and vice
versa.
Conclusion: This role-play activity was very useful to reinforce the information learned
and helped to reduce the learning barrier and to make the students feel comfortable
speaking in the foreign language, giving them the sensation that even if they were in a
beginners course, they could have a basic and worthwhile communication.
INDEX I
Primeros/entrada
Segundos/plato fuerte
Postres
Bebidas
Primeros/entrada
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Segundos
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Aqu tiene seor/seora/seorita.
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Ya
sabe lo que va a pedir primero?
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