English Class: Play With Us. Quick Fun Activities - Irina Borisova

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      Classroom

      Hobbies and interests

      Geography

      Climate and weather

      Art

      …

      Students:

      Animals: cat, dog, elephant, wolf, mouse

      Clothes: dress, shirt, jeans, trousers, T-shirt

      …

      Some helpful ideas: The list of categories can certainly be extended. You could find the following tips useful: «Sports», «Health and Medicine», «Music», «Literature», «Fine arts», «Film industry», «Transport».

      You may also introduce or add your own items to the category list.

      An adverb poem contest

      Core language: Formation of adverbs with -ly

      Level: Pre-intermediate – advanced

      Number of students: Any

      Stuff needed: A white/blackboard

      Time: 10 minutes

      People/characters involved:

      – The teacher acts as a presenter and possibly as a participant

      – All the students are the contestants

      Procedure: The teacher writes/types adverbs ending in -ly and a sample poem on the board and explains the rules of the contest to the students. The students have seven minutes to write a poem (one or two verses) using adverbs from the list and any others. Then they read their poems out. Finally, the class decides whose poem is the best.

      Example:

      Adverbs

      Slowly, quietly, tragically, angrily, carefully, carelessly, nervously, urgently, lovingly, suddenly, lazily, peacefully, heavily, really, immediately, nearly, finally, incredibly, loudly, eventually, hysterically, desperately, fortunately, unfortunately, warmly, happily, fondly, luckily etc.

      Sample poem

      At a lesson (a joke)

      She was watching them carefully —

      They were yawning lazily,

      She asked them a question angrily —

      They looked away nervously…

      They were talking to each other loudly,

      She tried to stop them desperately…

      They were sitting quietly,

      She laughed hysterically…

      Some of them were sleeping peacefully,

      Others were using their phones carelessly…

      She sighed and gazed at them lovingly,

      She started again patiently…

      In the end, they smiled at her warmly,

      So, the lesson ended happily.

      Some helpful ideas: It seems to be a nice idea to award a little prize to the best poet of the group.

      Definitions

      Core language: The class vocabulary

      Level: Intermediate – advanced

      Number of students: Any

      Stuff needed: A white/blackboard

      Time: 10 minutes

      People/characters involved:

      – The teacher acts as a presenter and possibly as a participant

      – All the students are participants

      Procedure: The teacher writes/types a list of words and phrases that need revising on the board. One of the students thinks of an item from the list and, without saying it, gives a definition of that item. The rest of the group guesses which word/ phrase has been chosen. The participants take it in turns to define the vocabulary items. At the end, the students may vote for the best definition justifying their decision with reasons and comments.

      Example: (from a text about roller coasters, intermediate level)

      An amusement park

      exhilarating

      anticipation

      a pendulum ride

      suspended

      weightlessness

      motion

      a roller coaster

      gravity

      glimpse

      Student A: A railway track at a fairground with lots of steep slopes and sharp bends where people ride in fast trains.

      Student B: A roller coaster!

      Student A: That’s right. It’s a roller coaster.

      Student C: It is an adjective which means making someone feel very excited or elated.

      Student D: Exhilarating!

      Student C: Yes, that’s correct. The word I mean is «exhilarating».

      …

      Variations: Apart from definitions, the students can also explain the chosen item in some other way. For instance, they may use phrases like «It is something that…”, «It is a place where…» or «It is a person who…»

      Forfeits

      Core language: Depends on the specific task as the game covers a wide range of language material

      Level: Beginners – advanced

      Number of students: Any

      Stuff needed: A white/blackboard, the task cards from Appendix 1: Forfeits

      Time: 20 minutes

      People/characters involved:

      – The teacher acts as the presenter/game host

      – All the others are participants

      Procedure: The game can be played as kind of «punishment» for mistakes made by the students in a particular exercise or can just be held for fun and pleasure. The teacher lays out the task cards face down on the teacher’s table. Then he/she walks around the classroom with a bag. Each student puts into the bag one of their personal belongings. Next, the teacher pulls the students’ things out of the bag one at a time. The owner of the item approaches the teacher’s desk, picks one of the cards, reads the task aloud and performs the task to get his/her thing back.

      Forfeit tasks (see also Appendix 1):

      •Describe the photo in your passport.

      •Choose one of your classmates and tell us when and where you met.

      •Draw a new road sign

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