Irina Borisova - English Class - Play With Us. Quick Fun Activities

People/characters involved:

– The teacher acts as a presenter and possibly as a participant

– All the students are the contestants

Procedure: The teacher writes/types adverbs ending in -ly and a sample poem on the board and explains the rules of the contest to the students. The students have seven minutes to write a poem (one or two verses) using adverbs from the list and any others. Then they read their poems out. Finally, the class decides whose poem is the best.

Example:

Adverbs

Slowly, quietly, tragically, angrily, carefully, carelessly, nervously, urgently, lovingly, suddenly, lazily, peacefully, heavily, really, immediately, nearly, finally, incredibly, loudly, eventually, hysterically, desperately, fortunately, unfortunately, warmly, happily, fondly, luckily etc.

Sample poem

Some helpful ideas: It seems to be a nice idea to award a little prize to the best poet of the group.

Core language: The class vocabulary

Level: Intermediate – advanced

Number of students: Any

Stuff needed: A white/blackboard

Time: 10 minutes

People/characters involved:

– The teacher acts as a presenter and possibly as a participant

– All the students are participants

Procedure: The teacher writes/types a list of words and phrases that need revising on the board. One of the students thinks of an item from the list and, without saying it, gives a definition of that item. The rest of the group guesses which word/ phrase has been chosen. The participants take it in turns to define the vocabulary items. At the end, the students may vote for the best definition justifying their decision with reasons and comments.

Example:(from a text about roller coasters, intermediate level)

An amusement park

exhilarating

anticipation

a pendulum ride

suspended

weightlessness

motion

a roller coaster

gravity

glimpse

Student A : A railway track at a fairground with lots of steep slopes and sharp bends where people ride in fast trains.

Student B : A roller coaster!

Student A: That’s right. It’s a roller coaster.

Student C : It is an adjective which means making someone feel very excited or elated.

Student D : Exhilarating!

Student C : Yes, that’s correct. The word I mean is «exhilarating».

…

Variations: Apart from definitions, the students can also explain the chosen item in some other way. For instance, they may use phrases like «It is something that…”, «It is a place where…» or «It is a person who…»

Core language: Depends on the specific task as the game covers a wide range of language material

Level: Beginners – advanced

Number of students: Any

Stuff needed: A white/blackboard, the task cards from Appendix 1: Forfeits

Time: 20 minutes

People/characters involved:

– The teacher acts as the presenter/game host

– All the others are participants

Procedure: The game can be played as kind of «punishment» for mistakes made by the students in a particular exercise or can just be held for fun and pleasure. The teacher lays out the task cards face down on the teacher’s table. Then he/she walks around the classroom with a bag. Each student puts into the bag one of their personal belongings. Next, the teacher pulls the students’ things out of the bag one at a time. The owner of the item approaches the teacher’s desk, picks one of the cards, reads the task aloud and performs the task to get his/her thing back.

Forfeit tasks (see also Appendix 1):

•Describe the photo in your passport.

•Choose one of your classmates and tell us when and where you met.

•Draw a new road sign and explain what it is for.

•Read the poem (the story…) as if it was an episode from a horror film.

•Make an origami from a piece of paper. Explain what it is.

•Tell us about one of your classmates without giving his/her name. The other students guess who it is. Start your sentences with the words This person…

•Tell your desk mate why he/ she should fly to Mars.

•Tell us what you would do if you were a talking biscuit…

•Answer the questions with complete sentences:

– What’s your name?

– How old are you?

– Where do you live?

– Which school do you go to?

– What’s the date today?

•Arrange the following words in alphabetical order:

tea, teacher, tree, talk, tiger

•What are the opposites of the following adjectives: big, dry, hot, rich, old, happy, low, wrong, fat, clean?

•Form compound nouns from the following words:

– alarm, cross, life, ear, time

– table, guard, ring, word, clock

•Put the words next to the correct heading (five words for each heading):

potato, plum, apple, carrot, onion, lemon, garlic, orange, banana, peas

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