Phonics Resources July 30, 2007
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Below is a list of resources that mainly provide lists, worksheets, or other resources, aside from detailed activities:
Battleship 2 July 30, 2007
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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.
Who’s Who? July 30, 2007
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From Three Wise Monkeys
Aims: comparatives (-er, more)
Materials: worksheets / sentence cards / prizes
THOUGHTS: Worked fantastically. Can get really loud, so try doing it with rows of teams seated.
This is a GREAT activity for an end of the year review in junior high. The students basically form groups and work together to find sentences about different people, dictate them, write them down, and repeat them to the teacher. Afterwards, the corrected and in-order sentences are used to solve a puzzle worksheet that is handed out only when they finish the sentences. I made a big drawing of 5 different people and the students had to figure out who was who and how old each person was by matching the sentences which described the people. If I can scan the drawing, I’ll upload it.
A great, great idea. Thanks Three Wise Monkeys! Go to this activity »
Battleship 1 July 30, 2007
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Aims: Questions / Does & Doesn’t / very adaptable
Materials: worksheets and a large example worksheet
There are tons of ways to play this game in the ESL classroom. I have found it to be a very useful activity that the kids generally enjoy.
The simplest explanation:
Hand out Battleship worksheets to each student. They plot their ships in their grid – 2 5-square “ships”, 2 4-square ships, and 2 3-square ships, or whatever you decide.
The students pair up, and ask each other questions based on the coordinates of the square they think their opponent may have a “ship” on. Ex:
A: “Does Sally go to school?”
B: “Yes, she does” or “No, she doesn’t” (depending on if they have a ship in that square).
The first student to “sink” all of their opponents “ships” wins the game, or whoever has the most sunk at the end of the class time.
HINT: I have found that as long as you go over the activity with the teacher you’re working with well in advance, and you give the students an active example, it goes very smoothly.
Go to this activity…
on MES-English (complete with downloadable worksheet)
Spelling Bee July 30, 2007
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Aims: Any / Vocabulary
Materials: lots of letter cards
Say the target word, after which it’s the students’ task to select the letters which spell the word, and then align themselves (holding a card or cards) in correct order. When they think they have the spelling right they call out to the teacher,”We’re ready!”
If the word is misspelled, they have the chance to try again. When they have the spelling right, give them an ordinal number (1st team, 2nd team…), and have them sit or crouch down. As well as being a useful teaching device, this makes it easier to see the other teams, and also to score after the turn is complete.
Scoring:
Ex: simply ask, “Who was the 1st team?” etc., and award points to that group. If there are 6 teams, 6 points are awarded to the 1st team, 5 to the 2nd, 4 to the 3rd, etc.. At the end of your time, tally the points on your scoreboard and reward the winning team.
THOUGHTS: This is probably best for beginning of 1st grade junior high, or elementary school students learning the alphabet.
Intonation Fun July 26, 2007
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From the Internet TESL Journal.
Materials: list of situations and words
Students say your list of words with varying intonations, depending on the situation. Go to this activity »
Pronunciation Drills with Directions July 26, 2007
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From Dave’s ESL Cafe.
Materials: a simple street map.
Students practice giving directions using roads or landmarks that are named similarly, which helps them to practice speaking and listening to correct pronunciation. Go to this activity »
