This jamboard activity is similar to my virtual paper dolls, but is focused on household furniture and prepositions of place. I use it as a review of prepositions of place and furniture vocabulary with my Spanish 3 students. I focused on the basic furniture from their vocabulary list and made all the furniture available on every frame. However, you could make separate jamboards just focusing on the bedroom, living room, kitchen, etc. Although I recommend you use .png images so the images don’t have a background. I wanted my students to choose from all the available vocabulary which is why I put it all together. There is also a “muebles extras” slide where students can find additional copies of furniture. Although if they just continue to hit “undo” on their frame everything should eventually end up the way it started.
I begin the activity by describing a room and having my students follow the directions. I always show them where to place the first item, I’ve found this makes it easier for us all to be on the same page with the rest of the description. Once we all have the same starting point, I begin to describe where other items are in the room, for example: La ventana está arriba de la cama. Once I’ve described the whole room, we compare! There are sometimes slight variations based on perspective, but that makes it even more interesting. After we’ve practiced like this a few times, I have them add a sticky note to their frame and create their own rooms. Usually they place everything in the room first and then write their descriptions. I encourage them to mix and match vocabulary from different rooms if they want too. Then in pairs they take turns reading their descriptions to their partner and setting up the room properly. If they finish quickly, they create additional descriptions or create a room together with their partner by taking turns saying 1 sentence to describe the room and then seeing if their rooms match in the end.
Using this with my students is super easy. My students have a lot of fun with this and especially like creating their own rooms to describe to a partner. I love that it reviews estar and the always forgotten al. It also gets my students talking with one another and so often ends in laughter when they realize the crazy rooms their partner put together.
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