Fashion report - vocabulary filler

So I mentioned in a previous post that I am trying to do my best to teach lots of clothing words in a way that (while contrived) is a compromise for me without having to do a LONG vocabulary list.

Each day I do the following:

1. my stick-drawer (job) draws a stick with a name at random and I describe what the person is wearing to the class (including colors afterwards to describe)
2. I recently started asking that person to stand up; not sure I would feel comfortable doing this depending on the class, but my students this year know I am not there to make fun of them and so far have been great sports. I don't talk about them for more than 30 seconds to a minute anyways.
3. Then ask about the words up there that I have pre-determined and ask if anyone is wearing a certain thing.
4. Could ask a follow up question, what store did you buy that in ? (need to "cover" preterite this year... but that's actually an interesting question if you want to know!)

I know it's nothing earth-shattering. But I feel like it is going about as well as I expected.

Today I gave them a warm up where they were supposed to match the clothing words to the English counterpart and they did just fine.

So I am glad that this frees me up for teaching with stories and other things I enjoy in the rest of class and I can incorporate the clothing as needed.

Here's the template if you wanted to use something similar.

I don't change it every day, but might change the color of the socks, shoes, shirts, etc.

Oh silly vocab lists

Something that tends to always try to rear its ugly head in my class are vocabulary lists.

I resist and resist and resist, but this year I am working in a large department (various schools) and they have agreed on some various vocab that should be in common among the different levels.

So for Spanish 2, I find myself doing WHATEVER I can to not let my class be overrun by the common vocabulary activity, but instead to expose my students all semester/year to the words slowly adding in new ones.

I bring this up because one thing I COULD do is teach every single clothing word known to man. But I know that if I do that, I am wasting valuable time on actual class time that could be used for input-based activities.

My compromise is to try and do a "fashion report" every day in Spanish 2 where I just talk about what someone is wearing at random and we can move on with our lives.

It's completely experimental.  I'll let you know how it goes!

Wish me luck!