Actions — statements

Actions — statements

In this action exercise, students learn to ‘say the whole thing’. That means they make a statement about what they are doing. The exercise moves from easy to more difficult.
First, they do the actions with no verbal response.
Next, they label their action, ‘Touching my head’.
Finally, they make an action statement,
‘I am touching my head’.

The process is:

LFL Teacher’s Guide, page 30, lesson 7, exercise 1, steps 1, 2, 3.

In the next slide you will see a demonstration of lesson 7, exercise 1.
Turn to page 30 in LFL Teacher’s Guide and follow along with the teacher as she teaches exercise 1, 2 and 3.
See if you can answer these questions.

• What kind of signal is the teacher using?
• What word is stressed when the teacher says, ‘ What are you doing?’
• What words are stressed when the teacher says, ‘Say the whole thing’?

The process is:

• In part one, make sure students can do the actions.
• Make sure students do not respond with a complete statement, ‘I am touching my head’, when they are just supposed to label the action, ‘Touching my head’.
• In part two make sure students are doing the action as they talk about it. They should keep touching their heads as they make the statement, ‘I am touching my head’.
• The words and statements may not have meaning unless they are doing the action and talking about it.