{"id":39,"date":"2016-11-02T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-11-02T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:26:22","slug":"whats-in-your-bag-classroom-items-song-video-and-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/whats-in-your-bag-classroom-items-song-video-and-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In Your Bag? Classroom Items Song, Video and Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School supplies are very important vocabulary for young learners of English (ESL, EFL). \u00a0It makes it much easier for a student to get a pencil from their bag, if they know what it is! So I have made a new, and a bit silly, video to introduce the vocabulary:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVSnDZHNEQc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video introduces the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s in your bag?&#8221; and an answer, &#8220;It&#8217;s my pencil, &#8221; and other items like notebook, ruler, and eraser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for watching a\u00a0video with students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This might go without saying, but I always watch the video with my students, do all of the actions and sing all the way through. Students will model after you, so even if you are putting on a video, it is not a time to sit and relax in class. (sorry!) These videos are designed with a second half that increases the speed of the song. This is great for fluency practice, and really getting your students to internalize the vocabulary!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s in your bag? Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Materials: Bags (either students, or supply some kind of paper, or cloth bag). Students school supplies (pencil, eraser, ruler, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Ask the students to put one item in their bag, and make a partner. The students take turns asking and answering, like this:<\/p>\n<p>Student 1: What&#8217;s in your bag?<\/p>\n<p>Student 2: It&#8217;s my pencil. What&#8217;s in your bag?<\/p>\n<p>Student 1: It&#8217;s my eraser.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the students can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamenglish.com\/rockscissorspaper\">Rock, Scissors, Paper<\/a>\u00a0and move onto a new pair. Simple, but fun.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few ideas of my own. \u00a0I encourage you to be a creative teacher, and try out new game and classroom ideas to get the best out of your students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School supplies are very important vocabulary for young learners of English (ESL, EFL). \u00a0It makes it much easier for a student to get a pencil from their bag, if they know what it is! So I have made a new, and a bit silly, video to introduce the vocabulary: The video introduces the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/whats-in-your-bag-classroom-items-song-video-and-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s In Your Bag? Classroom Items Song, Video and Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7],"tags":[17,12,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}