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These are for middle school students (11-17) | |
Adjectives and nouns
Adjectives in front of nouns; word exercise
Steps:
As, k the students to say some words about adjective + nouns, such as “a black cat , an expert doctor”. The teacher must give them an examples first, then ask the students to write the adjectives on the left of the blackboard, nouns on the ri, ght of the blackboard, look at the examples:
A black cat
An expert doctor
A brilliant student
A tidy room
A rainy day
A difficult problem
Then ask the students reorder the words, such as “a black doctor” the teacher line the two words, how many new phrases they can make. Some of the words will be very strange and fanny, ask the students to explain it to the class. | |
Steps:
Write the words you want to review on the board, and let the students write down any five words on their paper.
Then teacher read the words on the board not in order, every time the students hear a word he wrote down on his own paper he will crush out the word, when they crush all of their five words they must say bingo. Write down the words you say to check if they are right.
Another way of doing this: the practice must let the students understand pronouncing and spelling. And you can make it harder you just tell the conception of the word, the students must understand it and then but the word and the meaning together.
Note: if there is some words left at the end of a class just use these words to do the bingo game. | |
Word review and enlarge your vocabulary
Steps: choose a word they just learnt, ask the students write out all the related words around the this words, and connect by lines.
decision: think talk doubt sure regret judge parliament mistake discuss wonder director committee cloth: dress scarf skirt coat shirt hat socks jeans |
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Categories listening practice
each student has a piece of paper ask the students draw three or four lines on the paper, every column will have a subject of a category, such as: food and drink, or animal, vegetable, mineral, then you read all the words to the students the students should write the words under a certain category, for example: food and drink
Food Drink
Apple tea
Bread coffee
Cake water
Egg juice
BOX: Categories
Elementary
FOOD, DRINK: tea apple bread coffee cake water egg meat beer milk chocolate potato orange juice.
ANIMALS, OBJECTS: dog pencil chair elephant door man lion book table cat horse donkey television.
BIG, SMALL: elephant mouse matchbox house flower mountain pencil cigarette egg tea
ROUND, SQUARE: sun book blackboard ball window door moon television, flower house ring wheel desk
LAND, SEA, AIR: cloud earth rain fish tree wave fog sky field ship road mountain wind swimmer.
More advanced
SAD, HAPPY: smile tears laugh miserable tragedy cheerful pleasure depressing fortunate celebration weep amusing mourn joke delight
LOUND, SOFT: scream shout whisper crash murmur rustle roar hum bang sigh squeak cheer thunder tick
GOOD, BAD: ethical, evil wicked virtuous immoral naughty villainous faulty saintly perfect excellent deplorable | |
Controversial statements
Steps: write two to three controversial statements on the board, everyone write agree disagree I don’t know under each statement and every two or three students to compare their answers then vote, and get the idea of the way the students thinks of the statements.
Then if you have time you can discuss it with them. | |
| 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. | |
Oral questions (the answers should be yes or no) and short answers.
Steps: a student stands 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). | |
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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 …. | |
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? | |
| Imaginative identifications |
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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 | |
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 | |
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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