More activities - different aims

Two more activities - notice the aims! 


Hi all. Sorry for not posting for the last two days. For some reason I couldn't access the page to post a new entry. All seems OK today though so here are two activities.

Remember to think about the aim of the activity and how you could integrate this or a similar activity into your classes. 

Primary: My classroom

Aim: To listen for key words and to recycle vocabulary

Age: Ages 6 and up

Level: Elementary and above

Time: 10-15 minutes

Preparation: On small slips of paper, write the names of a number of familiar classroom objects. Jumble these and put them into a container.

Procedure:

1. Ask each child to choose one object from the classroom and place it on his/her desk.

2. Ask the children to stand and listen to the names of the objects as you draw them out of the container.

3. As you select a slip of paper, read out the name and of the object. Anyone with this object has to sit down.

4. Continue to draw out the slips of paper, one by one and read out the name of the object.

5. The last children left standing are the winners. If a child chooses an object that was not on your list (and can name it) they he/she can get a bonus point.

Follow up

As the children get to know this game they will grow more adventurous in their choice of objects. They will try to choose unusual items in order to outsmart you. Let children know when you will be playing the game again so that they can think about how to be the last one standing.

Secondary / University:  Pelmanism

Aim: To learn verb/noun collocations

Age: Ages 12 and up

Level: Elementary and above (depending on set of vocabulary)

Time: 10-15 minutes

Preparation: Prepare sets of words with verbs and nouns that collocate on the topic that the class has been studying. 

Procedure:

1. Hand out sets of cards to groups of 3/4 students. Students must scatter the cards on the table face down in front of them.

2. Students take it in turns to pick up two cards and see if they match. They must show the cards to the other students in their group. if the cards do not match they should put them back face down.

3. The next student picks up a card and tries to remember where its partner is.

4. The game continues until all cards have been picked up and the student with the most pairs is the winner.

Example collocations on the topic of the environment:

ride / a bicycle

share / transport

protect / the environment

throw away / litter

recycle / plastic

Extension

The same game can be played with other 'pairs' of words, for example opposites, verbs and prepositions or synonyms.

to succeed / in

to explode / to blow up

to lend / to borrow