Secret word: Students are given a random topic and a random word that is unrelated to the topic. The other students listen carefully to the speech and attempt to guess the secret word. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each student hold up their paper showing the agree or disagree side depending on their opinion.
Choose one student from each side to explain their position and participate in a short debate. Impromptu speaking: Prepare a list of topics that students will be able to talk about. Each student will respond to a statement without preparation.
They must continue speaking for 45 seconds. As the student is speaking, the other team listens for moments of hesitation, grammatical mistakes, and vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can correctly identify an error, they get a point.
Desert island activity: Give each student a piece of paper and tell them to draw an item—any item. Collect the drawings and pass them out again; no student should receive their own drawing. The only thing each student will have on the island is the item depicted in the drawing given to them, and their goal is to convince the class that they should survive based on that item. Storytelling activity: Bring four students to the front of the classroom. Three of them should sit in a row, and one should stand behind them and act as a controller.
Give the controller a stack of cards with nouns written on them. The controller will hand a noun to one of the three students, who will start to tell a story. He or she will then pass it on to another student and so-on and so-forth until everyone has had a turn. To make it even better, assign students to character roles from their self-made story, and have them perform an in-class play!
Even the quietest of kids are sure to laugh here. Read: About the Communicative Approach. Drawing cartoons or comics is a highly effective way for students to practice improvised writing, as long as you manage the time well- sometimes kids care much more about drawing than the language practice. Allot a set time limit for students to draw a simple cartoon scene or four to six comic squares. You then have two options: have the students fill in dialogue or write a story for their own picture or , to add a bit of fun and humor, have them pass their paper to another student to fill in.
Toward the end of the class, have each student read the story and present their drawing at the front. Read: How to Use Task-based Learning. Any way that you can think to make writing practice more dynamic will always be positive. Vocabulary Game: Definitions. The students at my school struggle to pay attention and to maintain interest when learning English. They avoid speaking in…. How many? This simple game started when Immy was about three years of age and fascinated by animals but it can easily be adapted to other themes.
I would start by asking a question about a specific attribute see some examples below and she would call out as many responses as she could think of;. Who Am I? I Went to Market: The aim of this game is to remember as many of the items in the shopping basket as possible. Any player who makes a mistake is eliminated until only one winner is left. Debates about different choices that children make provide lots of insight into their individual personalities and preferences.
Odd One Out: Begin by naming three items — two that are connected in some way and one that is not you can make this as easy or as hard as you wish, depending upon the age and interests of your children and ask your children to choose the odd one out. Secret Message: This well known game is best played with a group of children from kindergarten age upwards. Everyone sits in a line or circle and the first person whispers a short message to the next person in line, with the message then being passed from person to person in whispers along the line or around the circle.
The last person announces the message they have heard to the whole group and everyone has a good laugh at how the message had invariably changed as it has been passed along. Silly songs: Younger children love to listen to silly nursery rhymes created by altering the rhyming words of familiar nursery rhymes. For example,. Tongue twisters: Make up your own funny tongue twisters by choosing a letter or sound and working together to make a sentence with as many words beginning with the chosen sound as possible.
Alphabet chain: Choose a category and take turns naming an item that fits the category following the sequence oaf letters of the alphabet. So the first person chooses a word starting with a, the second person a word beginning with b, the third person with c, etc. The category can be anything at all — animals, countries, names, superpowers, etc. I would love to add to our game collection. What verbal games do you enjoy with your children?
Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas. I would start by asking a question about a specific attribute see some examples below and she would call out as many responses as she could think of; How many animals can you name that hatch from eggs as babies? How many animals can you name that have patterns on their bodies?
How many animals can you name that eat leaves? How many insects can you name that have six legs? How many vehicles can you name with four wheels? How many things can you name that are cone shaped? Save Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two.
Read the comments or scroll down to add your own: Oh we are definitely adding sound tennis to our list of car games! Brilliant :- Our favourite at the moment is hide and seek where Bella counts by 10s up to or by 2s up to Or a game similar to sound tennis but with rhyming words real or made up We play the "I'm thinking of " game using people.
They can be well known people so the children then learn about current affairs or the like eg Prime minister or other world leaders, or sports people. We also play one similar to sound tennis but you say a word and the next word has to start with the same letter the previous word ended with.
I love verbal games, they learn such a lot. I love this game. We also use a game to improve auditory memory. It starts with: A man went shopping and he bought a cap. Consecutive children repeat the sentence and add another item to the shopping list.
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