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Chinese drawing Divide your students into teams Line Compare and contrast Give two pictures and them up, facing the board Give a new or a key word to ask the students to make comparisons the students at the back They must use their finger to write the word on the next student’s back This continues along the lines The winning team is the first between them E.g Harry Potter and Gandalph, Mona Lisa and Medusa, famous to reach the board and write the word correctly They sportsmen or women, someone from the gain an extra point if they can use the word in a distant past and someone from the present sentence, or give the definition For beginners, work with letters of the alphabet – upper and lower case Hot seat There are many variations on this activity Put one student ‘in role’ – he has to be a character in Guess the object Take or draw a picture Then take pieces of paper (all the same size as the original picture.) Cut various sized holes in them Put them all on the picture Take one off at a time – can they guess what the object is, or where – street scene etc Each time, they are allowed questions to help them guess You can this as a whole class activity, or put them in teams Match–upTried and trusted; always works Pictureword or word-definition match ups Make it kinaesthetic by giving the cards out and asking students to match them up Get great resources from MES-English a book/film you’ve studied and the rest of the class prepare questions to ask You could: Make question cards with the wh- question words and give them out The students have to make questions with the word they are given Or, allot ‘tense cards’ – past simple questions with did, present with or does and future with will Splat/Wipeout Nice and simple, great activiity Good for revising vocabulary Wipeout Write or draw your items on the board (about 12 is good.) For beginners, a simple vocabulary item or letters of the alpahabet For mainstream, key words, or main characters, etc Invite two Beat the clock Students love this!!! They take turns in the hotseat The rest of the class prepare questions – the object of the exercise is for the hotseater not to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ So the students need to write questions which are the most likely to elicit a ‘yes’ or a ‘no.’ This can be general questions, ‘Have you got any sisters?’ etc, or it could be based on a topic you have studied ‘Do plants need light to photosynthesise?’ etc This is an excellent way to practise tag questions, as these are the most likely to get a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ ‘Mr Bean went to the dentist’s, didn’t he?’ Rules 1) Students cannot prevaricate – ‘maybe’ ‘I don’t know’ ‘obviously’ etc are not allowed I sometimes insist on a full sentence ‘Mr Bean did go to the dentist’s.’ ‘Plants need light for photosynthesis.’ 2) No nodding or shaking of the head 3) If the hotseater answers the questions for more than 90 seconds, then he has beaten the clock! 4)If he says ‘yes’ or ‘no’, then he is out I use my metal bin and a boardmarker at this point, but if you can get hold of a drum or a bell or something, that is great I ask a student to this and there are alwways plenty of volunteers This is a great revision tool! This students to the board Say the word, or give the definition.The winner is the first to hit the item He then wipes it out Call another student and repeat the exercise Splat You can prepare the items in advance on a slide, with picture The same activity, except students just hit the item For more advanced students, give the definition, or some clues You can also have a student to give the clues They love the competition Eleven Students stand in a circle They count around The student who says 11 is out and has to sit down Each student can say up to numbers, so when there are just a few left,they can calculate how to get each other out Or twenty one Little light ball Throw this to the student you want to give the answer They return the ball as they answer Makes for a good, fast question and answer session Hangman Don’t forget this old favourite! It makes a great Vary your close exercises Cloze exercises are a starter activity and can be used at any level – e.g for beginners – classroom objects For more advanced students, key words in any subject area Just write on the board, with students taking a turn, or use a generator great way of testing comprehension – but also, Guess who? You need post-it notes , or pieces of paper and blutac Put the students in pairs Write the target words on the post-it notes Stick one on each of the students’ foreheads – without letting the student see what is on his forehead The task is for each partner to guess what is on his forehead, by asking questions of his partner Is it an animal? Is it green? Etc The answer can only be ‘yes’ or ‘no’ spelling Try leaving all the vowels and ‘y’ out Students enjoy this exercise I Spy with my little eye, something beginning with Another old favourite that is a great activity for beginners Count round The students have to count round the class – in 3s, (or 4s, 5s etc) Then, start f rom a high number and they have to count down in threes ‘I we nt t o t he marke t and I bought ’ Fruit bowl I call this ‘Big Cats’ Another old f avourite Can be used as a because I teach boys and they like that better The students must be seated in a circle, on chairs You need at least 12 students, I would say Go round and allot each a cat – tiger, lion, panther, etc (3, 4, or cats, depending on group size.)Stand in the middle Explain: ‘When I say ‘lion’, all the lions have to get up and swap seats When I say ‘tiger’ all the tigers have to swap seats.Etc When I say ‘Big cats!’, everybody has to get up and swap seats Then, this twice By now, the students are wondering what the big deal is Third time round, take away a chair! Play the game again – someone is left without a seat He must give a forfeit, or answer a question Be careful! This can be very lively, particularly on a ‘Big Cat’ round.I only play this at the end of term The students love it category game, if you’ve been learning Odd one out – can be used at any level – this can actually be quite demanding conceptually Storyboard You have been teaching, now it’s time for the students to show they have learned!They have to divide a sheet of plain A4 into or squares They need to recount, in sequential order, with diagrams, the story you have studied, or the topic As well as narrative, they may include speech bubbles, or fact file boxes clothes, or f oods etc The f irst student starts of f , then it goes round the class, with each student having to remember all the others’ answers This can be varie d ‘I went to the zoo and I saw a ’ or with verbs ‘I went on holiday and I played on the beach.’ etc True or false ?- variation Instead of a straightforward T or F, put a mistake, or a piece of false information in each sentence which the students must find and correct Or produce a report on something the class has studied, with mistakes in it Very adaptable and can be used at every level Sequencing and Practising Connectives at intermediate or advanced levels Take a story or report and cut it into sections for the students to put in the right order Also, take out all the time connectives and substitute ‘then’ When the students have reassembled the passage correctly, say, ‘I am going to read it out loud How could it be improved?’ Split them into pairs or groups, and see which group can substitute ‘then’ with the best connectives Give out a list of suitable connectives if you need to Let the students read out their versions and discuss who has done the best job Bingo/Lotto a great, fun revision activity – need I say more? Nought s and cros se s You draw boxes on the board and use some blutack to stick your f lashcards/ key vocabulary f ace down on the boxes Split the class into two teams They take Back to the board One student comes out and turns to turn a card over I f it’s a picture and stands with his back to the board You then – get the they know the word, or if it’s a word and they can rest of the class to check that he doesn’t take a peek – give the def inition, they get their nought or their write a word or draw a simple diagram The rest of cross The winning team is the f irst to get the class must describe it, or give clues, but they noughts or crosses in a line This can be cannot say the word Split them into teams to make it adapted to pair work a competion Great for students at all levels Spell it out Students have their books and pens ready Start spelling the word letter by letter The object of this exercise is for them to guess the word before you finish spelling it A fun way to present a spelling test! Describe and draw Put the students in pairs Give each a picture Student A describes his picture (but mustn’t show it) to Student B, who then has to draw it At the end, they compare their pictures and discuss what is different Then they swap roles Excellent for beginners – colours, prepositions and for practising ‘has/have got’ etc as well as for advanced students Jumbled words and jumbled sentences For Do mino e s You ca n this a s a whole cla s s beginners, you can give out individual packs of the a ctivity, with jus t one s e t of dominoe s Give e a ch s tude nt one or On one box, the re is a que s tion, on the othe r a n a ns we r The firs t s tude nt re a ds out his que s tion, the n the s tudnt with the right a ns we r puts his nd up, re a ds it out a nd the n re a ds his que s tion e tc This ca n be done in pa irs alphabet For more advance students, you can have full sentences, including adverbs and connectives Box of words Get a bag or a box and put lots of words on pieces of paper in it Go round the class – each student has to take a word, read it and either make a sentence out of it, or give the definition If you like, you can write each student’s sentence on the board Then, the others can correct the sentences and/or make suggestions for improvement This can be used to practise basic English with beginners, or with key words or new vocabulary for more advanced classes Or, if you’ve been studying a novel or a play, your words can be based on that Probability plane Strategically place your bin Give the students a sheet of paper and ask them to make a paper plane Then ask them to discuss the odds of them getting their plane in the bin You can bring in lots of language ‘Likely’ ‘No chance’ ‘Impossible’ ‘Certain’ ‘50-50’ ‘6:1’ etc Move the bin around as they get better at it! Chinese whispers Two teams, each forming a circle Charades Divide the class into teams One member comes out and he takes a card off the top of the pile – written on it is what you want him to act out e.g ‘dig the garden’ He then acts Whisper the key phrase into the ears of the first student in line They then whisper to each other, round the circle The winning team is the one whose final statement most resembles the original Good for teaching key pieces of knowledge it out – he mustn’t speak or mime The other team has to guess the word or phrase Put a time limit on it, then pass it over to his own team If you want to make it easy, you can get the students to prepare the cards Main points After you have studied a book, make a few slides or a worksheet with just the main points Elicit a recount by asking questions, ‘What happened before ’ ‘Why did he go there?’ ‘Who did he see?’ etc Add to the picture This is a good activity for a small beginners’ group Use the whiteboard Draw a line Say, ‘This is the ground’ Call up a student and ask, or show them, they have to add something They may Place the nose Draw a blank face on the board Call out one student – he has to be blindfolded He has to draw the nose in the right place and the others have to give directions Give each student a different coloured pen and see who gets the best results Good for practising prepositions and directions A bit of fun! add anything house/flower/tree/person/animal plane/sun/birds/car etc, whatever they like Then they have to say what it is, ‘This is a ’ Or ask the others if they can name the object Each student gets a turn At the end, they then each say a sentence to describe the picture Good for practising prepositions You can make this into a longer, writing activity by having them copy the picture and write up the sentences You can then have a True/false session, based on the picture they have Kinaesthetic True or false Place two posters at opposite ends of the classroom - TRUE and FALSE Read out your statements, students have to move to the position they think is correct Students who are wrong have to sit down Continue until there is a winner Then, move onto the next statement At the end of ther activity, ask students to recite, or write down as many of the true statements as they can remember Key words chart tally Ask some students to keep a tally of how many times you say a certain word This can be a way of allowing a beginner to participate in a more advanced lesson created Differentiate by half Ask your EAL students to work on half the number of paragraphs that you set the rest of the class Pre-highlight key words or phrases in the passage you are studying Timeline Draw three time zones on your line – Past / Now / Future Students take turns to come out Read out a sentence, e.g ‘He saw his friend last month.’ The student has to position himself on the line /in the zone he thinks appropriate This is a great kinaesthetic way to practise tenses and expressions of time Provide writing frames This can be in the form of time adverbs for a sequence, ‘First, After that, Suddenly Finally etc’ or with specific vocabulary You can also give support for the answer e.g Instead of ‘Where did he go next?’ ‘Say where he went next.’ Post it marking When marking, instead of correcting the student’s mistakes in his book, write them on post –it notes, Then the student has to correct his own mistakes This way, you know the student has taken notice Acrostics At the beginning – or the end of a topic, write down one of the key terms e.g E D U C A T I O N The students have to write down as many words as they can beginning with each letter that is relevant to the topic E.g E – exam/expectations etc D – detention, discipline Split the class into groups and the winning group is the one with the most correct words Each group’s suggestions can be written up and discussed Ice breaker or an activity you can use for a speaking lesson at any time Bring in some photos from your personal album, or the internet Include photos of people – family, friends Photos of places/big cities/countries you have visited/food/film trailer posters/cars etc Tell the students ‘These are important to me’ – or ‘I have plenty to say about each of these photos, Read and report back Instead of reading from a book, pin the passages up round the classroom In pairs, but I need the right questions.’ Give them some time to write as many questions as they can Or one student reads the passage, then reports back to his assign different photos to different students A partner, who writes it up Then, they go up and read the fun way to practise making questions passage to check This makes reading and writing fun

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