World Language Fair

Each class will be responsible for creating and running a language booth. A language booth is any kind of activity with a task that involves language.

Be thinking of ideas…

What is a Language Booth?

• A language booth can be any kind of scenario that requires communication.

• For each scenario, there needs to be some kind of a task to complete.

Let me show you what I mean. Here are a few booths from last year:

Boggle Show-down (ASL)

Task: Participants play a round of Boggle, then fingerspell their list of words they found to the person running the booth.

Clothing Store (ASL)

Task: Participant describes a few items of clothing that he or she would like to “buy”. Student running the booth asks questions to clarify which articles of clothing.

Spanish: Car Sales

German: Clothes Store

French: Restaurant

Spanish: Home Sales

Spanish: Flower Shop

Are you starting to see how this works?

A few business items about the Fair

• Participating in and running the booth for the World Language Fair will be an assignment that will go on your 3rd quarter grade.

A few business items about the Fair

• It is in the evening, so I realize there may be some who have conflicts.

• Hopefully, you can plan ahead with work schedules. If you are unable to fill a shift, I will have a research project you can do instead.

• We will work out scheduling later on. The fair runs from 5:00-7:00. You will sign up for a 30 minute shift to run the booth.

A few business items about the Fair

A few business items about the Fair

• Sometime before or after your shift, you will go around and visit all of the other ASL booths. You will be given a passport you will take with you to each booth. Upon completion of a language booth task, you will get a stamp in your passport.

Enough of the business! Let’s brainstorm some ideas for your booth.

On a piece of paper…

• Write down an idea or two for a language booth. Write down what the topic would be, and what kind of task would be involved.

• Example: Topic: A pet store. Task: Students need to ask questions about the pets--size, color, if they are friendly, good for small children, etc.

Hand in your papers

• I will make a list of your suggestions, and at the end of class we will vote on booth ideas.