Latin Chat Mat: "How are you?" Classroom Conversation (Emotions, Feelings)

Students use Latin questions and sentence starters to have a conversation about their feelings and emotions. The chat mat has a helpful, student-friendly emoji picture for each response. This is a great way to build community and get to know your students while they use the target language.

Suggestions for how to use the chat mat:

• To facilitate a teacher-led check-in:
  • As students line up to enter your room, hold up the chat mat and ask them the question, offering them a chance to look at the options and respond in Latin. This is a nice way to "take the temperature" of your class before getting started.
• To complete a brief conversation in student pairs:
  • I’ve included a guided conversation handout that you can print and give to students. It walks them through what partner 1 and partner 2 should say to each other, prompting them to use the chat mat for their response options.
• To start or end class:
  • Students can use the chat mat independently as a written warm-up or exit ticket.

Included:

• A chat mat that asks "quomodo te habes?" (How are you?) and "cur?" (Why?) with student-friendly images showing 15 possible responses
• A guided dialogue handout to accompany the chat mat
• An additional vocabulary sheet with interjections to help students react appropriately to what their partner has just said to them in conversation
• An English translation for all Latin terms used
• Notes to the teacher to help with implementation
• A black-and-white version

Material Covered:

• adjectives
  • first, second, and third declension
  • nominative singular
  • masculine, feminine, and non-binary forms
• adverbs