Hey, learners and not only!
I wonder if you do have a problem with real games and activities while learning ESL. You search all Internet and mr.Google sometimes give you wonderful ideas and sometimes not.
This discussion will be a game box of practical exercises you can use for fun and for your real teaching as well :) I'd be happy if all members could add their activities. In order to have a real game box, please, follow the next rules if you want to add your activities:
1. Game title is necessary.
2. The goals of the game are necessary.
3. Equipment and description of the game is necessary.
4. If you want to add your activity, see step #1 :D
So, let's start!
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Game "Mirror mirror on the wall... "
Goals:
1. To learn new words and phrases via connection "word=action".
2. To unite the students' team.
3. To create a good atmosphere.
Equipment:
You need nothing :)
Description:
Ask the participants to form two rows, each participant looking directly into the eyes of the one in front of him/her.
Those in row A are the ‘subjects’ and those in row B are the ‘images’.
The ‘subjects’ start making all sorts of movements and changes of expression (slow motion works best here), which the ‘images’ have to copy. Ask them to copy it right down to the smallest detail.
• Afterwards, the ‘subject’ and ‘image’ change roles.
After a while you can also give the participants specific situations they have to act out and copy e.g. you just woke up and are (not) happy with what you see in the mirror, you’re getting ready to go to a party, you’re doing your daily work-out, and so on.
Also you can play the next variation of this game:
1. A teacher whispers to the "subjects" their words and "images" what they have to show. On count "1-2-3" "images" start showing their words. "Subjects" need to find the correct "Images" and vice versa.
Have fun!
Game "Associations"
Goals:
1. To learn new words and activate lexical material.
2. To unite the students' team.
3. To create a good atmosphere.
Equipment:
You need nothing :)
Description:
Ask the participants to form a circle.
You will introduce a simple word like ‘forest’.
The participant standing next to you has to react by saying a word
he/she associates with ‘forest’, e.g. ‘tree’ or ‘woodcutter’ or ‘Little
Red Riding Hood’.
The next player will react by saying another word he/she associates
with the word that has just been said, and so on.
Ask the participants not to think too much, but to react with the
first thing that crosses their mind. They don’t have to try to be
original.
E.g. if someone says ‘grass’, what is their first and honest impulse?
This will probably be very different for every individual. Some might associate it with ‘summer’ or ‘flowers’, others with ‘hate’ or ‘mud’, and so on.
p.s. Try to increase the speed of answering. And I bet your mind and memory will boil like a kettle :D
Game "I’m sexy Sarah"
Goals:
1. To unite the students' team.
2. To develop memory.
3. To develop representative skills.
Equipment:
You need nothing :)
Description:
Ask the participants to choose an adjective that begins with the first letter of their first name and one that really matches their personality.
The first participant in the circle introduces him/ herself by saying e.g. I am sexy Sarah!. Then the next participant introduces him/herself and also the person who has just introduced him/herself, and so on, e.g. I am creepy Cindy and that is sexy Sarah!’.
This means that as they go round the circle it will become more and more difficult to remember all the names.
Variation:
Focusing on Headlines
Goals:
1. To enrich vocabulary and to make the language knowledge suitable for the present times.
2. To develop memory and attention.
3. To develop writing skills.
Equipment:
You will need real or copied or printed newspapers with headlines.
Description:
The headlines themselves may spark great speaking activities, as well as a glimpse into newspaper and magazine headline language. Before asking students to open the magazine, list some of the headlines featured in the magazine and ask them to say what they think each article is about. Write a list of topics that correspond to those headlines. Ask students to match the right topic to the right headline.
I am surprise, why this activity not responded as other ones did?
Maybe it's not needed :) I don't know too :) so I stopped publishing :)
Hands.pps
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