Fortune Telling July 30, 2007
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From Three Wise Monkeys
Aims: will / future tense verbs
Materials: worksheets, dice or spinner
Students use a dice and worksheets to find each other’s futures, then read them aloud. Hopefully their futures are filled with wild and crazy adventures! Go to this activity »
HINTS: Adapt to a lesson, and make sure to use silly / hopefully understandable words.
Go Fish July 30, 2007
Posted by serenden in card-games, occupations, questions, questions-asking, sentence-making, vocabulary-any.add a comment
From Three Wise Monkeys
Aims: occupations / what do you want to be? / other
Materials: game cards with 10-12 pictures of different occupations, a set of 3 for each student.
Ex:
To play: students find a partner and ‘Jan-ken’; the winner is Student ‘A’, the other is student ‘B’.
‘A’: “I want to be a farmer.” (They must use one of their cards), “Do you want to be a farmer?”
‘B’: “Yes, I do. I want to be a farmer, too.” (‘B’ surrenders their card to ‘A’).
or
“No, I don’t. I don’t want to be a farmer.” (No card is lost or won)
Interview BINGO July 25, 2007
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Materials: BINGO sheets with personal questions.
Bingo Sheets
Put personal questions on the BINGO sheets, ex: “have you traveled outside your country?” Give one to each student. Tell the students to move around the room and ask the people the questions in the sheet. When someone answers “yes” the student writes that person’s name in the appropriate box. When a student gets five names – across, down, or diagonally, they call out BINGO. The first 3 students are winners. Aim: to get the students to mingle with each other and talk.
What’s Behind You? July 25, 2007
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Materials: none
MTell the class not to turn around. Ask them what they think is behind them. They might list other people in the class, furniture, pictures on the walls, etc. Ask for descriptions for the things they mention. The teacher may also ask what the learners can remember of the street outside the school, ex:
Teacher: “Think about the street outside. What can you remember?”
Student: “There are some trees…”
Teacher: “Are there trees on both sides of the street?”
Variation: a student is asked to close their eyes and describe their neighbor’s appearance.
Word Association July 25, 2007
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From TeachingTips.com
Materials: none
You start the game by saying a word such as “hotel”. For example,
Teacher: “Hotel”
Student A: “Bed”
Student B: “Room”
Student C: “Service”
Student D: “Food”
Student E: “Restaurant”
Student F: “Chinese”
Any association is ok. If a student can’t answer (5-second limit), then they must stand up. The last student seated is the winner. Go to this activity
Coffeepot Game July 25, 2007
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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 »
Vocabulary Race / STOP! July 25, 2007
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Materials: board, chalk
Draw 5 columns on the board. Each column is a letter of the alphabet. Say “Go!” and the first student to fill in all the columns with a word that begins with that letter shouts “Stop!” You can go through the whole alphabet this way.
You can also use word beginnings like ex, sh, sp, ch…
More difficult: Assign each column to a general category like food, clothing, emotions, office items, things in the house, etc. You then call out a letter from the alphabet. students have to fill in each column with a vocabulary word that begins with the letter and pertains to that category.
