(adapted from: Nebraska K-12 Foreign Language
Frameworks:
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/FORLG/Frameworks/Frameworks.pdf p. 95 3/6/2004)
Activity summary: Students role-play a fashion show to practice
vocabulary.
Intended level: Developing
Length of activity: Four 20-minute periods
Reflects standards: Communication 1.2,
1.3, Cultures 2.1, 2.2
Materials needed: Costumes or clothing items provided by the
students
How students work: Individually and in pairs
Steps for Planning and Implementation:
- Students learn vocabulary for clothing, fabric, and design.
- Discuss cultural differences in clothing.
- Talk about designers in general.
- Students select what they will model, and each writes a description to
be read by the person role-playing the emcee. Students bring
costumes/clothing to class.
- Students divide into pairs and practice their roles in the style show.
Each student will model and emcee.
- Pairs perform the style show for the class.
- Distribute a list of names of the models. To assess students’
understanding of the style show narratives, the teacher reads brief
descriptions of several outfits and assigns a number to each description.
Students place the number of the description next to the name of the model
on the list.
