6. Dictate numbers
Steps: Dictate any group of numbers. When the teacher speak the numbers write down them with the students and check it if it is right, or you can write the numbers on the board let the students read aloud.
7. Don’t say yes or no
Oral questions(the answers should be yes or no) and short answers.
Steps: a students stand in front of the classroom, others ask questions, try their best to make him say yes or no. The student in front of the class must answer the questions honestly, at the same time try do not say that two words, he can use “I did, she does not” to answer the questions. If he or she say either of the words he or she is out of the game. (set a time if he or she don’t say that words n one minute he or she win the game).
8. Draw a word
Steps: Tell one of your students or write it on a piece of paper about a word or a phrase you learnt recently, this student can draw the concept on the board: can be a picture a sign or to act the word, others must guess the word.
For example: travel the kid can draw plan can bus ship but tell them that is one word.
9. English words is our language
Ask the students say as many words as possible, but the English words must have been already used in their language. Write all the words on the board.
10. Fact and fiction
Let all the students write one sentence on their own paper, the sentences can be right can be fake, choose ten students to read their sentences aloud, others including the other nine students write down their names, listen carefully try to tell which is fact which is fiction, and use √ or ×. When all the ten finish reading compare everyone’s answer whose is fact whose is fiction.
11. feel the object
collect some objects from the students or from the classroom, but these things into a bag, then ask the students to touch the bag and tell everyone what is it.
12.Guessing
Chose an object, animal or people tell your students what type of thing you will say, then tell them the first word start with a or b…; colors shape ….
13.If I am not here
Write the answers for: if you weren’t here where would you be, and let them change their ideas.
Then change this question to be “If you weren’t here where would you like to be?”
If you weren’t yourself, who would you like to be?
If you weren’t living now, when would you like to live?
14.Imaginative identifications
Steps: show the students a pen and then start a conversation
You: what’s this?
Students: A pen.
You: No it isn’t! (pretend to fly the pen around as if it were a plane.)
What is it?
Students: It is a plane.
Then give the pen to another student, ask he or she to pretend it to be another thing, to encourage them to think more actively
BOX: Imaginative identifications
Objects and what they could represent:
Pen: plane/telescope/screwdriver/nail/boat/flute/mouth organ
Exercise book: roof/bird/telescope/table tennis bat/mirror
Chair: horse/car/person/garden fork/washbasin/animal
Bulldog paper clip: footballer/bird/scissors
Cup: hat/microphone/bird’s nest/face and nose/hammer
Bag: washbasin/hat/balloon/book/monster’s mouth
15.Jumbled words
Steps: write some words the students just learnt these days, and some words they have problem to remember on the blackboard but the words shouldn’t be in order.. but make sure these words should have a same subject, otherwise it will be too difficult for the students, and using too much time.
For example: gdo, sumoe owc knymoe tca tnhpeeal ibdr
Then tell them these are animals, let them make as many words as possible in a certain time.
Dog mouse cow monkey cat elephant bird
16.making groups
first make sure which type of words do you want to practice, then make the students to say all the words of that type that they knew, then two students to be secretary, they must write all the words the students say on the board. Then let the students think of other different way to make the words into other groups, and the secretary use chalks to circle the words.
Another way is ask all the students write down the words then t ell you how many new group they can make.
For example: car lorry truck wheel engine accident seat fast traffic lights driver petrol/gas speed sign road motorway/ high way police bus garage taxi bicycle key oil.
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