Here's a copy of my Total Physical Response Lesson for EDU 302. I had a lot of fun learning these words myself. They are Nahuat words for family vocabulary words. Nahat is an indiginous language spoken in El Salvador, I am very fortunate to know some from my mother. Try it out in your class, and see how it goes.
                                                 
Anna's TPR  Lesson

EDU 302

TPR Lesson Plan

 

Rationale

As beginning ELD level students the California Standards requires that as part of comprehension students, “respond to simple directions and questions by using physical actions and other means of nonverbal communication (e.g., matching objects, pointing to an answer, drawing pictures)”.

Objective

Goal 1: To use English to communicate in social settings

Standard 3: students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.

Students will be able to follow directions(touch, lift, point) using the content vocabulary (family, mother, brother, sister, brother) .

Procedures

Teacher will show the students a generic picture of a family, a mother, a father, a sister, and a brother and taught their translation in Nahuat. The students will then be taught two directions, touch and lift in Nahuat. The teacher will introduce commands, acting them out as she says them. With these vocabulary words learned students will perform the actions as the teacher demonstrates them such as, “lift the mother” lifting the picture of the mother and “touch the brother.” Touching the picture of the brother. Gradually the teacher’s demonstrations are removed and the students respond to the verbal commands only.

Evaluation

Because students will be physically responding to commands part of their assessment will be through visible observation. A checklist will be used to keep track of the commands the student knows and commands or vocabulary they still need help on.

 

Checklist- place an (x) for the appropriate command and vocabulary learned

Commands

     1         2          3

Content vocabulary

 

1       2       3

Ikpak/ Kinútsa/ Kipía

ne sennémit

 

 

 

Ikpak/ Kinútsa/ Kipía

ne ikneuj

 

 

 

Ikpak/ Kinútsa/ Kipía

ne nan

 

 

 

Ikpak/ Kinútsa/ Kipía

ne elteuj

 

 

 

Ikpak/ Kinútsa/ Kipía

ne téku

 

 

 

 

Topic

Activities

Language Functions

Language Structures

Vocabulary

Family

Point

Touch

Pick up

Commanding

identifying

Point to______

Touch_______

Pick up_______

Sennémit   Family

Ikneuj        Brother

Nan            Mother

Elteuj         Sister

Téku          Father

Ikpak         Touch

Kinǘtsa      Lift

Kipía          Point