Unit 4- grammar practice
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:26 pm1.There are many games which teachers can use to make practice activities more interesting and motivating for students. Do you have any favourite games which you use to practise specific language items?
In fact, I do have a couple ones for younger learners when we teach the present continuous. I usally use the FREEZE game. They spend a great time playing it. I divide the class into two groups, about (10-15 people each) and then, one of the groups place in front of the class. I give them a paper with some action (YOU ARE EATING SPAGUETTY) and they have to start doing it when I say the word, FREEZE , everybody stops. And the second group have to guess the anwers: WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
I consider I can practice the form (basically) but students also understand it refers to the action they are doing at that specific moment. So, it's quite useful.
And I also use another another one with elementary students: the olympics game to practice comparatives and superlatives.
In that game, students are placed in groups, and I give them some adjectives+nouns: tall, large feet, long hair.... etc then they have to write comparatives and a superlative between people from the group: like Maria is taller than Javi and Javi is the tallest of the group.
the first part of the activity, groups must be sure all sentences are correctly written if not, the group is not going to classificate.
On the second half of the activity, the tallest, the longest hair ,etc... from each group place in the middle of the class and each group decides: who has got the largest hair in the class? , then we test it (it's funny when they have to size their feet for example).
In fact, I do have a couple ones for younger learners when we teach the present continuous. I usally use the FREEZE game. They spend a great time playing it. I divide the class into two groups, about (10-15 people each) and then, one of the groups place in front of the class. I give them a paper with some action (YOU ARE EATING SPAGUETTY) and they have to start doing it when I say the word, FREEZE , everybody stops. And the second group have to guess the anwers: WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
I consider I can practice the form (basically) but students also understand it refers to the action they are doing at that specific moment. So, it's quite useful.
And I also use another another one with elementary students: the olympics game to practice comparatives and superlatives.
In that game, students are placed in groups, and I give them some adjectives+nouns: tall, large feet, long hair.... etc then they have to write comparatives and a superlative between people from the group: like Maria is taller than Javi and Javi is the tallest of the group.
the first part of the activity, groups must be sure all sentences are correctly written if not, the group is not going to classificate.
On the second half of the activity, the tallest, the longest hair ,etc... from each group place in the middle of the class and each group decides: who has got the largest hair in the class? , then we test it (it's funny when they have to size their feet for example).