How are you Mr. Wolf?
Rebecca Ladhams
| GRADE LEVEL: | Special Education |
| SKILLS: | Listening, speaking |
| TIME: | Fifteen minutes |
| MATERIALS: | None required, pictures if preferred |
| OBJECTIVES: | To practice asking and answering to ‘How are you?’ |
| | To provide alternative answers to ‘I’m fine’ |
PROCEDURE:
1. Ask individual students how they are.
2. Using listen and repeat with hand actions or pictures introduce the new words: ‘good’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’, ‘sleepy’, ‘OK’ and ‘hungry’.
3. To practice the new words, ask students how they are using actions/pictures to indicate how they should answer.
4. Once the vocabulary is learnt you can play the game which is basically an adapted version of an old school-playground favorite ‘What’s the time Mr. Wolf?’
5. Students should stand in a row at one end of the classroom. You, or a volunteer selected to be ‘Mr. Wolf’, ‘Okami San’, should stand at the opposite end with your back to the students. Students should ask ‘How are you Mr. Wolf?’ As long as the answer is not ‘I’m hungry’, students should take a step closer to Mr Wolf. This is repeated until Mr Wolf says ‘I’m hungry’. On the growling of these words Mr Wolf should try and catch a student to eat. The person caught becomes Mr Wolf, and so on.
NOTES:
Once students know the vocabulary this can be a really genki warm-up activity for groups of all sizes. I have three students in my special education class and I normally fix it so they all have a go. You could adapt this game to teach telling the time: ‘What’s the time Mr. Wolf?’, ‘It’s one o’clock’ etc. until Mr. Wolf cries ‘It’s dinner time!’
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