Goals Learning outcome

• To learn new vocabulary in Portuguese • Students (Sts) use new vocabulary in Portuguese to create sentences
• To match pictures and words

Skills used Steps

• Reading and listening 1. Give a copy of one of the blank slides/pages to each student. Their background has
• Writing and speaking been dimmed on purpose so that students can write on the squares. Explain
that the square grid will help them remember the images they are going to see
next (there are 32 images organized in 8 rows).
Variations 2. Show slide/page 2 to students on the projector, or give a copy of slide/page one to
• On step 3 Sts may also write the corresponding words in English if they don’t know each student. Tell students to observe the images closely for 3 minutes and try
their equivalent in Portuguese. to remember as many as possible.
• Sts help teacher create the paper “dice” as a class project. 3. Move the slide show to the next blank slide, or ask Sts to put page 2 aside. Give
them 3 more minutes to write down all the vocabulary they already know,
• Instead of standing, Sts can sit in a circle for the game.
and/or make a rough sketch of the pictures they don’t know the names for.
4. Check to see how many words/pictures Sts remembered. Ask Sts to help you label
the pictures row by row (oral work).
Follow up 5. Show slide/page 4 with all the vocabulary. Allow Sts to correct and complete their
• Sts play a word game using handmade paper “dice” (dados grid. Explore vocabulary and ask Sts to use 2 or more pictures in connection
volantes) with all the letters of the alphabet, pictures of objects, to build sentences.
people, etc. related to the letters, and numbers 1-9. [See separate
instructions on how to build the dice].
• Divide the class in 2 groups. Sts stand in circles. Each group plays
with one die at a time. They exchange dice after all the letters have
been used at least twice. Each St throws the die in a forward, rolling
motion, so that it turns in the air before another St catches it.
• On catching the die, Sts say words beginning with the letters, or
the name of the object, etc. [to remain in the game s/he must say at
least the name of the letters].
• On the second round, Sts build sentences:

“Dá-me uma sanduíche, por favor.”;

“Ontem comi oito morangos.”
“Estão cinco palavras escritas no quadro.”
“Em Turlock não há zebras.”