Operetta the monster doll

Even monster dolls play a role in language learning in my English lessons in Istanbul. Realia such as toys inspire holistic language while playing with the toys cultivates the kinesthetic learning style. When my student Rita, 8, brings her monster doll to our lesson, I challenge her to describe the doll in a 100 ways. At first, she says this sounds too tough, maybe impossible. But she soon realizes how much she would like to say about her doll and rises to the challenge. Imagination games bring out the best of creativity. These authentic, free response tasks contribute to a more interactive, effective and enjoyable lesson. Let's play together :)




Here she describes the doll a 100 ways:

1. Her name is Operetta.
2. I don't know how to spell her name.
3. She is the daughter of the Phantom of the Opera
4. She is a monster doll
5. She is beautiful
6. She is a model
7. She is alive
8. She is fine
9. She is shorter than the other doll
10. She was born with tattoos
11. She likes playing music
12. She likes going where she should not be
13. She likes going somewhere with monsters
14. She likes sitting and watching
15. She likes the colors red, purple, and black
16. She likes skeletons
17. She likes monsters
18. She likes spiders
19. She likes adventure time
20. She doesn't like people who hate her music
21. She doesn't like when somebody falls down
22. She can play music
23. She can write music
24. She can speak in the cartoons
25. She can pick up earthworms
26. She can sleep
27. She can seesaw
28. She can smell flowers
29. She can walk on stones
30. She can fall
31. She can fall down
32. She can sit in high places
33. She can play on the jungle gym
34. She can climb on the monkey bars
35. She can swing on the swings
36. She cannot bend her ankles
37. She cannot bend her feet
38. She cannot move herself
39. She cannot stand up herself
40. She cannot talk by herself
41. She cannot reach high places
42. She cannot tie the ribbon herself
43. She cannot pick up her purse herself
44. She cannot close her eyes
45. She plays music with her friends
46. She plays on the playground
47. She plays at adventure time
48. She sings music
49. She sings songs
50. She sings with her friends
51. She drops her purse all the time
52. She dropped her purse again
53. She sits on the roof
54. She sits on the seesaw
55. She sits on the swing
56. She sits on the slide
57. She sits on the playground
58. She has red and black hair
59. She has red lips
60. She has grey eyes
61. She has pink and purple eyeshadow
62. She has black eyelashes
63. She has brown eyebrows
64. She has a small, black mole
65. She has purple skin
66. She has small hands
67. She has a normal body
68. She has shoulders
69. She has elbows
70. She has wrists
71. She has knees
72. She has drawings on her hand and neck
73. She has a tattoo on her left arm
74. She has the number 2183HF2 on her back
75. She has a pet spider
76. She has one outfit
77. She needs to go
78. She doesn't have a boyfriend
79. She doesn't have many outfits
80. She wears boots with piano prints
81. She wears shoes with shoelaces
82. She wears a white skirt with black spider webs
83. She wears a black swimsuit with red dice
84. She wears a purple eye piece
85. She wears a plaid purple bow
86. She carries a red bag
87. She carries a red purse
88. She carries a book in her purse
89. She reads a paper book
90. She drops her bag all the time
91. She dropped her book again
92. She blows kisses
93. You cannot get the boy dolls easily because they are too expensive.
94. You cannot just go and buy a boy.
95. They are not in all of the shops
96. You have to go online.
97. But if I had a boy, I would be very, very careful.
98. There is one girl I want but she is very expensive.
99. I want Catty Noire because she is black and very beautiful.
100. If I had her I would be very, very delighted.

Finally, we make a short film clip with a phone: