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Charades 2 July 31, 2007

Posted by serenden in actions, present-progressive, questions-asking, role-playing, sentence-making, verbs, vocabulary-any, warm-up.
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Aims: -ing verbs

From Three Wise Monkeys

Materials: none

Three Wise Monkeys gives a number of different ways to use this activity to practice various ways of using verbs in different tenses.

HINTS: Use with a high-energy class only. Try for warm-up.

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Battleship 2 July 30, 2007

Posted by serenden in board-games, pronunciation, reading, verbs.
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From Three Wise Monkeys

Aims: Questions, verbs, any

Materials: grids

Yet another way to play this versatile game:

Demonstrate how to play by rough drawing a battle-grid on the board. You’ll need at least a five by five grid, as you need to fill in all four ships to cater to the slower learners. Next, get the JTE to commence to ask questions. For example, if your 2-dot vessel was on the grid provided, then your attack demonstration could look something like this:
JTE: “Are you going to study English tomorrow?”
ALT: “No I’m not. Miss! Are you going …?
JTE: “No I’m not. Miss! Are you going to play shogi tomorrow?”
ALT: “(Kuso) Yes I am. Hit! Are you going…”
JTE: “No I’m not. Miss! Are you going to eat sushi tomorrow?”
ALT: “(Oh my God!) Yes I am!! Hit and sunk!!!” :(
Permit students 1 minute in which to fill-out their grids. Keep to this time limit! Alternative battle -grids can be found in the misc. section. See Rainforests for team vs. team instructions.

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Charades 1 July 30, 2007

Posted by serenden in present-progressive, questions, role-playing, sentence-making, sports, verbs.
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Aims: any / verbs / can & can’t

Materials: verb cards

Make little cards each with a verb written on it, such as…”swimming”. Have 2 teams. Invite one person to the front. He/She chooses a card from the hat…reads it privately…then must act this verb to their team…the hands go up…you choose a person from the actors team first…if they get it correct, that team gets a point…if not then you choose a hand from the other team and vice versa until the action is identified with an English word. You can expand the game by using simple and amusing language forms on the cards, such as “I can’t swim”. The correct answer will be “you can’t swim”. Good fun and not dissimilar to “Whose line is it anyways” guess the Ailment of the Partygoer game, (an expansion possibility with adjectives thrown in the mix).

HINTS: Could be fun with a high-energy class.

Chain Stories July 30, 2007

Posted by serenden in sentence-making, simple-present, stories, verbs, writing.
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Aims: -es verbs / Present simple verbs

Materials: beginning of story

Works really well when you give the class some structure. To practice the simple present for habitual action try starting the story with, “John always has a busy day. He wakes up at 6:00 o’clock every morning. At 6:10 he…” You write this at the top of the board and ask a student to continue the story. Each student continues the story by adding an original sentence, which you write on the board. It’s my experience that this works best if you provide each student with a prompt (“after breakfast,” “at 7:30,” “then,” “next,” “before he eats lunch, etc…”).

THOUGHTS: best for small groups. Must create a comfortable atmosphere.

Verb Tic Tac Toe July 26, 2007

Posted by serenden in irregular, verbs.
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From Dave’s ESL Cafe.

Materials: blackboard

Use this classic game to help your students practice verbs and making sentences. Go to this activity »

TPR Warm-up July 25, 2007

Posted by serenden in verbs, warm-ups.
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Source: Genki English 

Materials: none

Total Physical Response! This is a great warm up game, and helps the kids learn basic commands. Go to this activity »

Coffeepot Game July 25, 2007

Posted by serenden in MIDDLE SCHOOL, verbs.
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From Ernie’s Activity Page

Materials: none

The word “coffeepot” substitutes the mystery verb. For example, the student asks “Do you coffeepot everyday?” or “Do you coffeepot with your legs?” until they find out the mystery verb. Go to this activity »