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Pin Types

Useful vocabulary to learn

By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
Head of Curriculum Development Academic Department Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano	Senior Language Professor School of English Faculty of Social Sciences Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Thursday, March 26, 2020 Post 342 / Vocabulary 004

One of those things we all teachers enjoy is when students start asking questions regarding objects they find on their daily lives. One of those objects is when they ask you for the equivalent to those things we call pins in English. For those working in an office, they usually ask you what a thumbtack is, using their native language, of course. And what about girls coming to ask you for things such as hairpins or safety pins? And if you have someone interested in sewing, they come to ask you about head pins.

You could bring these objects to class as realia or simply project them on your Interactive White Board (IWB), so they can get familiarized with the objects they know in their native language. And then it is time to ask them to get in pairs and together explain what the object are for.

Head Pin	A head pin is a metal object that it is used by tailors or dressmakers to hold two pieces of clothing that are going to be sewed together.
Tie Tack
Hair Pin
Thumbtack
Safety Pin
Flag Lapel Pin

A second option is to have our learners come up with three different other uses of each of these elements. That is, each object has a common use we all acknowledge, but trying to encourage student inventive thinking.