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Creating a Realia Portfolio. Carleen Curley Velez, Ph.D. UCLA Center for World Langauges. Introductions Ice Breaker What is “ realia ”? Why is realia important? What can be done with realia ? Group project. Overview. Ice Breaker Stand up if you…. …know more than 3 languages.
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Creating a Realia Portfolio Carleen Curley Velez, Ph.D. UCLA Center for World Langauges
Introductions • Ice Breaker • What is “realia”? • Why is realia important? • What can be done with realia? • Group project Overview
Ice BreakerStand up if you… …know more than 3 languages. …have children. …are an only child. …have more than 5 siblings. …visited the USA before this trip. …teach at a college or university. …play an instrument. …drive in your home country. …like pizza. …enjoy teaching English!
What is Realia? • Newspapers • Magazine pictures • Advertisements • Schedules • Vacation fliers • Forms • Maps
Newspapers • Expand headlines (adding articles and/or auxiliary verbs) • Creating or locating passive sentences • Using present perfect to present current events What Can be done with Realia?
Magazine Pictures • Comparative/superlative adjectives • “going to” or “about to” to describe imminent action • Past progressive to describe past situation • Past tense (turn picture into story) What Can be done with Realia?
Advertisements • Comparative/superlative adjectives • Comparative/superlative adjectivesin questions • a/an/some/any in shopping lists • Yes/no questions • Verbs of sensing + adjective What Can be done with Realia?
Schedule • “Going to” to express future plans What Can be done with Realia?
Vacation Flyer • “Going to” or “will” to express future plans • Giving and understanding directions • Reading and using numbers What Can be done with Realia?
Forms • Interrogatives in the present What Can be done with Realia?
Maps • Prepositions of place or directions What Can be done with Realia?
Instructions Using the assigned realia from your folder, create a way to use it for a beginning, intermediate, and advanced level ESL activity. Groups • Newspaper • Advertisement • Map • Coupons • Tourist information Group Project