THE SNOW WHITE AND SEVEN DWARFS

ACTIVITY 1: ADJECTIVES OF FEELINGS AND PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

Source: Mirela Vasić – Hadžihalilović
Level: Elementary
Space: The classroom
Materials: dwarf puppets or drawings, PPT presentation, handouts

What is it & why use it?

The following clip from The Snow white and Seven Dwarfs invite students aged 7- 9 to revise or get introduced to personality adjectives or adjectives of feelings.This is a good introductory activity for the teachers which can furtherly be expanded depending on the level of  their students' English language knowledge and the number of  adjectives they want to revise with them.

Directions:

Invite students to watch the video clip. Ask them what they can see in the video. Some students will probably recognize the dwarves. Ask students about the number of them and if they know their names.

Then, ask students to pay attention to the names of dwarves written on the presentation or on the handouts in front of them. Let students discuss the meanings of their names and lead them to the understanding that almost all of the names describe someone's personality or emotions except one, DOC. Initiate a short discussion about its meaning. Let students associate the words with the pictures.

Write synonyms of the adjectives BASHFUL or DOPEY on the board as they can be unknown to students. The teachers can even show the part of presentation with the dwarves' names translated into the mother tongue and also numbered.

The teachers tell their students that puppets or  drawings representing dwarves with the numbers on them are hidden in the classrom and they are supposed  to find them. When  students find those hidden dwarves, they need to look which number is beside the dwarf's name and on the puppet or drawing and mime the feeling.

ACTIVITY 2: THE TRUTH ABOUT ME

Source: Katie Dawson
Number of students: 8+
Level: elementary - upperintermediate
Space: Room for standing in a circle
Materials: Masking tape to designate space or floor markers

What is it & why is it?

The Truth about Me creates the opportunity for students to connect with each other as they exchange infromation about themselves. Once the group has played this to get to know each other. The Truth about Me can also played to activate connections to curricular content such as adjectives, compounds and other parts of speech or vocabulary.

Directions:

Invite students to stand in a circle. It may be useful to mark each person's space with a small piece of tape or some other floor marker;the teacher stands in the center of the circle.Introduce this activity: One of our goals today is to learn more about each other / compunds / some vocabulary / like + gerund /  other parts of speech. In this game the person in the center will share something about themselves by saying: ''The Truth about  me is...''and then complete the sentence with a true fact.

For example,the truth about me is that I like ice cream. If this statement is laso trueabout you, you like ice cream too, then you must find a new space to stand in the circle. It is the same if you revise vocabulary or grammar structures. Explain that the person in the middle is also trying to get a spot so whoever does not geta spot goes to the center and the game begins again with a new truth. Play a number of rounds. Encourage students to choose truths that will get more people to move. If the same person ends up in the center multiple times, they can choose a replacement that hasn't been in the center yet.

ACTIVITY 3: THE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE TENSE - INTRODUCTION

Source: Mirela Vasić – Hadžihalilović
Level: Intermediate - upperintermediate
Space: Classroom
Materials:

What is it & Why use it?

This activity can be useful to the teachers to introduce Present Perfect Simple Tense to upper level students. It is always claimed that grammar is boring so let it prove otherwise. Students will probably memorize The Present Perfect Simple Tense structure and its use better by associating it with the cartoon.

Directions:

Pass around the handouts with the sentences raled to the cartoon The Snow White and Seven Dwarves. Invite students to read the sentences and circle the sentence(s) and words that they think The Snow White and dwarves will say in the video. Students guess the answers. Students watch the video and check their answers. Ask the students about the grammar structures of the sentences and the YES / NO answers on the handouts. Let them discuss the elements of the sentences and then introduce them to the above mentioned verb tense.