New year -- new meetings. I have a new student, a beginner, or rather, a re-beginner. We have just started, so we are now in the exciting period of getting to know each other. As usual, I began with some self-introduction (his reaction to my prezume was, as expected: he appreciated it, admitting that visuals helped a great deal in filling his gaps to understand the talk). In the form of a game, tailored for his level, he was also made to share his -- initial -- thoughts about himself.
Today, I felt, we could move on, both in digging out his forgotten English knowledge and in going deeper into a mutual opening up. I designed a game for him, in which pronouns, already refreshed in class, and adjectives, just introduced, could be practiced, while contemplating on something we are most interested in: ourselves.
He was expected to collect 10-15 adjectives that best describe himself and list them in the left side of the face. Then, in order to fill the right part of the face, he needed to ask 3 acquaintances to name 5-5 adjectives they think describe him the most. Of course, this game has not only linguistic but also psychological relevance.
Instead of revealing his answers, let me test the game on myself. Here are the adjectives I gathered about myself.
I am looking forward to filling the right side; so comments, with the 5 adjectives, are welcome.
Caring, empathic, open-minded, creative, super nice! This list could easily go on, you know. :)
ReplyDelete:-) Thank you! I was expecting something like strong, loud, brave, furry -- like a bear -- from you. :-)
DeleteReady to fight,
ReplyDeletesincere,
emphatic,
sober,
attractive (yes, I mean your body with all its female features)
Blush ;-)
Deletegentle
ReplyDeleteclever
creative
highly sensitive soul
fair
determined
witty
beautiful
good listener
active, playful
Huh, wow! (Thank god you didn't write: articulate. :-)
DeleteIn alphabetical order
ReplyDeleteaffectionate
cosmopolitan
innocent
passionate
sporty
I must say, "cosmopolitan" and "innocent" surprised me.
Deleteempathic (helpful included)
ReplyDeletesensitive (soulful included)
strong (stubborn included :o))
clever (creative, spirited, humorous included)
"able to give and receive" /quotation from... somewhere/
+1: beautiful (inside and outside included ;o))
(This is a very interesting game! It could be also exciting to make the response (temporarily) anonym - maybe in another case, as now there are already many comments and adjectives so far -, so the "protagonist" could try to guess who the adjectives arrived from. Anyway, I am really curious about the results of your interactive game and about what YOU are going to deduce from them! ;o))
You are right: such a game would also have been fun. In your case, the unique emoticon ("the piggy face") would have made the guess easy. :-)
DeleteEspecially appreciated is the quotation. ;-)
Adjective guessing game:-p
ReplyDeletet_n_c_o_s
c_e_t_v_
e_p_t_i_
c_e_e_
w_t_y
last but not least
e_t_u_i_s_i_ (n_l f_n)
tenacious - creative - empathic - clever - witty - aaand.. an enthusiastic NFL fan. :-) Go, Russel Wilson!
DeleteThanks a lot for the challenge! Funny to admit, the most difficult ones were "clever" and "tenacious". But I was tenacious enough not to give up and prove I am indeed clever. :-)