Teaching grammar with fun
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This document provides descriptions of 28 sample language teaching activities. The activities focus on a variety of language skills including vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, and writing. Some of the key activities described include matching pictures to numbers, memorizing pictures, picture cover up, double sided chunks, hot potato game, Simon says, feeling jar, ready made pictures, mixed words/letters, weather, what's in my hand, sequence in cards, expressing feelings through sounds, substitution drills, cross questions, eliciting adjectives from pictures, fastest wins vocabulary game, and A-B cooperation. The activities aim to make language learning engaging and interactive through visuals, movement, and games.
Teaching grammar with fun
- 2. Name of the Activity 1 MATCHING PICTURES TO THE NUMBERS Description Teacher describes one of the pictures shown and ask them to guess the number of pict. Language focus/aims - colours, adjectives, clothes, appearance, present continuous.
- 3. Name of the Activity 2 Memorising the picture Description - T. shows a picture for a while and cover it up and read out True-False statements prepared beforehand. Ss. write or say T. or F. Language focus/aims - have/has, there is-are, numbers, prepositions, colours, how many..
- 4. Name of the Activity 3 Picture cover up Description Find a Picture, cover it up as a whole or part of it and let them guess the covered part. Language focus/aims Good for visual students, practising new words, way of activating words, have/has.
- 5. Name of the Activity 4 Double sided chunks Description Write the phrases on both sides of a card or paper and show them only one side and ask them to guess the backside. Language focus/aims practise and revise phrases memorising new vocabulary
- 6. Name of the Activity 5 Hot potato game Description find a potato make maximum ten ss. make a circle, they hand the potato eachothers by saying ‘it’s hot, it’s hot, it’s very very hot’ while one student running outer side. Aim is to circle potato faster than the student running outside. Language focus/aims Practise adjectives, kinesthetic. They are physically involved in the lesson.
- 7. Name of the Activity 6 Simon says Description T. gives commands by saying simon says ‘……........……’ and Ss. obey the commands Language focus/aims Imperatives, controlling the class, fun, revision
- 8. Name of the Activity 7 Picture envelope Description Stick a picture on the back of an envelope and put the words related into the envelope and ask them to guess all the words in the envelope. (or) ask them to produce words about the Picture then next week you can ask them again to revise. Language focus/aims To teach words, adjectives. It helps memorization.
- 9. Name of the Activity 8 Who am I? Description Write a popular name on the back of a student and let him/her ask questions about. Others answer and student try to guess who he/she is. Language focus/aims Have fun, making questions and giving answers
- 10. Name of the Activity 9 Feeling jar Description Write some feeling adjectives on papers, put them in a jar or box, Ss. pull out one of them from the jar and mime (act out), others try to guess the adjectives. Language focus/aims Revision of adjectives and learning new adjectives.
- 11. Name of the Activity 10 Ready made pictures Description Prepare some pictures; brushing teeth, having breakfast etc. and ask them ‘What do you do after breakfast?etc.. they respond by the help of pictures. Language focus/aims Everyday activities
- 12. Name of the Activity 11 mixed words or letters Description Write crucial key words on the board with mixed letters ask them to guess or correct Language focus/aims fun, revision, memorisation
- 13. Name of the Activity 12 WHAT IS IN THE PICTURE Description T. explains or describes the thing in picture before showing it, and ask them to guess. Language focus/aims - revision, warmer, activate curiosity,name of objects
- 14. Name of the Activity 13 WEATHER Description Write ‘WEATHER’ on the board and ask them to find new words from the letters as many as possible. (you will get surprised.) Language focus/aims fun, generating words
- 15. Name of the Activity 14 What is in my hand? Description Put someting in your hand, let them ask questions to find the object in your hand. Language focus/aims practice of asking questions, activate curiosity.
- 16. Name of the Activity 15 Acting out(who am I) Description Mime a typical action of a character or let a student to Language focus/aims Revision or learning jobs
- 17. Name of the Activity 16 Repeated questions Description Ask the same questions several times to get different answers. (Why do you like ice-cream?) -It is cool. It is tasty... etc Language focus/aims Revision of the tense learnt. Group work activity. Competition to see which group will find more reasons
- 18. Name of the Activity 17 THAT’S ME Description You say sth.(I like learning English, I went to park yesterday etc.) Ss.who share the statement stand up say that’s me. Language focus/aims Hidden grammar for all topics or might be revision of previous lesson or old lessons
- 19. Name of the Activity 18 Expressing feeling Description Give a sound for adjectives. (shocked, tired,sad, happy, sleepy etc.) Language focus/aims Fun, positive learning environment, unconscious learning of adjectives
- 20. Name of the Activity 19 Sequence in cards Description Write words on papers or cards to form positive, negative sentences or questions. Give each card to one student showing to class holding in their hands. Others try to put the Ss. holding papers in order to make a sentence. Language focus/aims Available for all tenses many grammar rules in both teaching and practising phase.
- 21. Name of the Activity 20 Speed up(Dictionary act) Description Choose a passage two or one unit ahead and tell them that the person who manages to write most new words correctly he/she will win a bar of chocolate.(give 2 minutes) Language focus/aims Indirect study of new vocabulary and they will be familiar to the vocabulary in that unit.
- 22. Name of the Activity 21 Dicto gloss Description You read a text and every student in group write different words and then they recollect the text. Language focus/aims Group work or pair work activity Improve listening skill, pronunciation and writing skills.
- 23. Name of the Activity 22 Chain drills(back chaining) Description Get the Ss. to repeat long senteces loudly beginning from backword. (What is/the weather/like today?) Language focus/aims Facilitates memorisation and help students form a sentence
- 24. Name of the Activity 23 Substitution drill Description You change the words in a sentence and re-read or re-speak the sentence.(I’m/going to/theatre.) change only one a time, which part you like Language focus/aims Enhances the ability to form a sentence on the topic being studied.
- 25. Name of the Activity 24 Cross-questions Description Divide class into two parts. A ask B answer, B ask A answer. Then you ask some students indivudally and get them to do pairwork. Language focus/aims Available for many topics. Improves listening and speaking ability and helps pronunciation.
- 26. Name of the Activity 24 Eliciting Description Show a picture and ask them to create adjectives best describe the picture Language focus/aims Revising or practising of adjectives. Might be used in group work.(social awareness)
- 27. Name of the Activity 25 Coloured words Description Assign a color for each function of sentence, mix the words and ask them to make sentences according to colors they have. Language focus/aims Better for visual students. Help them acquire how to form a sentence
- 28. Name of the Activity 26 Writing free of pen Description Write a name drawing your finger on a back of a student and ask him/her find the word feeling drawings and explanations. Language focus/aims Activate curiosity and brain, enhance listening skill.
- 29. Name of the Activity 27 The fastest win Description Divide board in two, write ten words in Turkish and English. When you say the word they find it among others and circle it if one of the two students can’t find when another found he has a right to enter into another field and circleit, then wins two points. Language focus/aims Groupwork - Vocabulary study They are involved visually and physically.
- 30. Lesson:English NÖBETÇİ: 127-255 Teacher:Selçuk ÇABRİ build book bilmek win speak öğretmen sleep konuşmak kitap help ucuz yardım etmek okumak uyumak inşaa etmek know read teach teacher cheap öğrenmek write learn yazmak öğretmek kazanmak
- 31. Name of the Activity 28 A-B cooperation Description Show a picture to student A, and let him/her to describe it to student B. By the help of explanations of A, B tries to find it. (You can give them a limited time and create a competition between pairs.) Language focus/aims Names of objects. Provide a quick production of language because of competition among pairs and time limit
- 32. Name of the Activity 29 Chasing cat Description Ss. make a circle of seven or eight by holding their hands with one in the middle called ’mouse’ and one at outer side called ‘cat’. The cat asks ‘Can I come in?’ ‘no you can’t ‘ ‘When can I come in?’ ‘at six o’clock’ ‘OK’ say cat. They turn round saying 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock until six, then they open the door, Mouse escape outside running round the circle if captured, the cat joins the circle if not all over again. Language focus/aims Suitable for studying on ‘CAN’. Also revision of ‘can’ and clocks. More suitable for fourth or fifth grades. Provides repetition drills for students who joined the game also both repetition and listening activity for the students out of the game
- 33. Name of the Activity 30 Memory game Description Choose 6 to nine students, tell a sentence to the first person (I have got a hat.) then let them to repeat your sentence and ad done more name to the end.(I’ve got a hat,I’ve got a coat..) Go on until someone confused and leave the game, the last person wins. Language focus/aims Repetition drill, inner grammer. Have/has got, can or some functions might be taught.
- 34. Name of the Activity 31 Completing clothes parts Description Stick pictures of some clothes on the walls of classroom seperately. Draw only a head of a person on the board and ask them to complete the picture putting them right places of the body. Then, in the same way ask them to find the names of clothes sticking beside the right clothes. Language focus/aims Knesthetic activity, clothes and body parts
- 35. Name of the Activity 32 Gesture Game Description This is a gesture game using previosusly learnt verbs and emotions. Have two envelopes, one is verbs and one is emotions. Students take one card from each envelope and must preform the gesture, it is simple and very amusing. The students in the audience must guess what the emotion is and what the action is. Who ever guesses it gets to perform, wins a point for team however you set it up. works well for small groups (5-6) and i am sure it would work for large groups as well. examples angry /swimming happy /hairbrushing sleepy /dancing afraid/ cleaning surprised /playing a guitar Language focus/aims allows for creativity-fun-revision
- 36. Name of the Activity 33 Eat your Verbs!! Description I've done this with all of my English classes and it has always proved to be a lot of fun for the students, its funny for you to watch, and they get a kick out of seeing each other act. Divide the class into 2 groups, have a list of verbs ready. The list can be changed with the level of English. For example, I used a list of irregular verbs. Each group then chooses one person to begin. I give each group a different verb and they have to proceed to act out the verb without speaking and their group has to guess in English what it is, then whoever guesses it correctly must go to the front of the room and write down the 3 forms of the irregular verb. I give the new person a verb and it starts all over again. It ususally starts slow at first, but every time the students have gotten really into it and it starts going very quickly and almost runs itself! I then at the end give points for every correctly spelled and formed verb and count off for the wrong ones. The winning group of course gets a prize Language focus/aims revision-irregular verbs
- 37. Name of the Activity 34 Dollar Awards Description The students always enjoy games where money is used. Set up a shop and have them make purchases. Teacher: This is a ten dollar question. What colour is my shirt? The student who answers correctly receives $10 from each of the other players. (or the teacher) Teacher: This is a twenty dollar question. What time do you eat lunch? The students must give $20 each to the student who answers correctly. If a student answers incorrectly they must pay a penalty of $5 to all the other players. You can copy the play money supplied Language focus/aims revision-tenses-colours
- 38. Name of the Activity 35 Last Letter Description The last letter of the word must be the first letter of the next word. You will need a ball, but a screwed up piece of paper is fine.The teacher throws the ball to one student and says a word, such as "dog". The student must reply with a word starting with "G," such as "girl". When answered, the ball is thrown back to the teacher and it is then thrown to the next girl, look, king, give, eat, teacher ... and so on Language focus/aims revision
- 39. Name of the Activity 36 Taste teaching Description Children learn easiest when using all their senses. Taste is one sense that children love to use. For teaching fruit and vegetables cut the food items into tiny cubes so it is difficult to tell what they are. Then have the children taste the pieces and try and guess what they are. (ANLAT BAKALIM) Language focus/aims FRUITS-LIKE/DISLIKE-OBJECTS