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- Simple practical exercise. "What's in the bag?" provides a basic grammar exercise.
I use it for kindergardeners through 7-8 year olds. Any
plastic bag will do. Collect
various objects- a coin, watch, ring, scissors, a battery, medicine, etc.... I simply say
"What's in the bag?" . Take the objects out of the bag, at a time(a l'hora), identifying each one. When the bag is empty, give the students the opportunity to identify each object. I choose a student and say " I want the (item X)" You'll be surprised how enthusiatic the kids are about the game, and how exited they are to compete with each other in identifying the objects. After all the objects are identifyied, I say "Now, I'm going to put the (object) in the bag" and throw the object back into the bag.
A simple effective vocabulary builder. All practical words to know.
- In this flash card game a team of children have to say in English as many flash cards as they can in one minute. You hold them up one at a time. If they dont know the english you teach them to say pass. For every correct answer the children get a point, and for the cards that they pass on, no points. To keep score you put the pass cards in one pile and the correctly answered cards in another and then add them up. The team with the most points, wins. With the cards that they pass on I recite the new vocabulary to the whole class before starting with the new team. I use this with adults too.
- After making 40 wild animals cards (some double). It took 5 hours to make them right, the copying, coloring, pasting, and lamination.
I wanted to say that, given the work I put in them, I am trying to use these cards in every conceivable way, on my primary school and middle school kids. so, I do the following:
* What is
this? (This is a hippo)
* What are t
hese? (These are hippos, used when they pick up two)
* For when they don't match(coincideixen), they can say: This is a hippo and this is a lion (or "that is a lion," to refine the
demonstratives)
* What color is the ______ ? Is it fat or thin?
Adjectives! * Is this a gorilla? No, this isn't. This is a monkey. * Difficult
plurals: these are deer(cérvols), these are wolves(llops).
Outside the concentration game itself, I use them to teach
I am and
you are. I will put a monkey card on my head and a giraffe card on the student's head, and he will say: I am a giraffe, you are a monkey.
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