Along this post, you will find a list of ideas you can use at your English class, primary or secondary too. They are classified accordin to the intelligence they are more beneficial to. At the end of the post you can look at three examples of materials which can be used some intelligences.
Let's have a look!
Activities for linguistic
intelligent learners.
- Quickly writing: reaction to draws and photos.
- Telling stories
- Listening to partner's explanations
- Learning interesting and meaningful vocabulary
- Playing with words: crosswords
- Debate
- Group work: oral presentations
- Designing key words and important sentences after studying one unit
- Changing roles: prepare themes as experts
- Choose a word and use its letters to form others which start with those characters
- Writing diaries, using narrative
- Writing poems, representing theaters.
- Creating a dictionary with learned words
- Writing letters to an idol, to a family member, a friend, etc.
- Writing a biography about someone they know, they can also look for information
- Reading aloud in front of the class or individualy.
Activities for logic-mathematic
intelligent learners.
- Creating strategies to solve a problem
- Look for relations or patterns in language
- Creating stories in which there are problems they must solve, do it in pairs.
- Participate in discussions in which they must compare, analyze causes and consequences, etc.
- Creating a time line to order events.
- Working with experiments at class.
- Playing strategic games
- Using technology
- Desing an activity in which they must follow instructions
Actvities for visual or spatial
intelligent learners.
- Using conceptual maps, murals, collage, drawings, individually or in groups.
- Using graphics.
- Creating a photo album
- Representing theaters or oral expositions
- Designing dresses.
- Creative tasks such as creating videos or taking photos
- Narrate an imaginary storie
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Visual metaphors
- Dreaming awake
Activities for kinetic
intelligent learners.
- Simple games such as “Simon says”
- Simulations, for example, of different cultures and religions
- Looking for the treasure: they search for information
- Manipunable materials
- Going out to see practically the new vocabulary or theory
- Coreographies with music which implies the vocabulary
- Using mime and gestures for explanations
Activities for musical
intelligent learners.
- Background music for relaxation
- Creating songs changing words
- Using musical instruments
- Analyzing songs
- Writing songs' lyrics
- Singing a rap
- Changing the final of songs
- Relating vocabulary to sounds
- Memoryzing sounds sequences for learning vocabulary
- Mixing units with songs that talk about them
Activities for intrapersonal
intelligent learners
- Writing in a diary about how they learn
- Having a learning register where they can express their emotions and feelings
- Talk to others in a good way, thanking and complimenting
- Writin autobiographies
- Describing characteristics
- Concentrating and relaxing
- Reflecting
- Having private spaces
- Individual work and activities
- Playing alone
Activities for interpersonal
intelligent learners.
- Group work
- Learning to behave well with others
- Practising technics for solving problems
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Studying other cultures which are present at class
- Discussing with partners
- Interviews
- Helping others to do or learn something
- Creating rules to work together
- Using technologies: blogs, forum
- Board games
- Understanding others and their feelings
Activities for natural
intelligent learners
- Observing phenomena and looking for differences
- Visiting public places, going outisde
- Discovering cities or landscapes trough images, videos, internet, etc
- Visiting museums
- Visiting zoos
- Identifying objects only touching
- Collecting natural objects
- Questions such as: How is this object like?
- Playing detectives roles: clues, strange situations, etc.
Now, you can enjoy this three examples, which are for three diffeerent intelligences. These ideas can be adapted to the level of the learner.
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