Objectives: To check students’ understanding of the vocabulary in context. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: You will need some slips of paper with texts from the children’s textbooks and some slips with the translation of these extracts. Instructions: Divide the students into two teams. Give each team some slips of paper with the texts Read more
Building sentences!
Objectives: To check students’ understanding and practice sentence formation in a fun way. Age group: 6-10 years old. Instructions: Divide the students into two teams. Each team asks the other 5 questions. The teams have to answer the questions without saying “yes” or “no”! They have to create full sentences. For each complete utterance, the Read more
In search of minions!
Objectives: To check students’ understanding of a text and practice answering questions in a fun way. Age group:7-10 years old. Preparation: Cut out minions’ images and write on them comprehension questions regarding a text that you have already read in class. Hide the minions in the classroom. Instructions: Divide the students into two teams and Read more
What does it mean?
Objectives: To check students’ understanding of the vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 8-10 years old. Preparation: You will need 2 pieces of paper on which you will write 10 sentences. The sentences will contain words from the students’ vocabulary. In each of these sentences underline a word. Instructions: Divide the students into two Read more
Broken phone
Objectives: To learn or revise vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: Preschoolers-7 years old. Preparation: You will need words and pictures flashcards of the vocabulary you want to teach or you have already taught. Instructions: Have the students sit in a circle. If you teach new words, holp up each flashcard one by one, Read more
“Ahoj!”
Objectives: To revise the consonants and the vowels by creating new words. Age group: 6-8 years old. Preparation: Cut out pirate ships from cardboard. On each porthole write 4 consonants and on each of the three flags write a vowel. Instructions: Divide the students into two teams. Give each team a pirate ship and a Read more
Words in pots
Objectives: To practice reading and making new words. Age group: 5-7 years old. Preparation: Cut out flowers and pots from cardboard. On each flower write the beginning sound/s (onset) of a word and on the pots the ending (rhyme). Use CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words. Instructions: Ask children to match the flowers to the correct Read more
Words’ search
Objectives: To revise vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 6-10 years old. Preparation: You will need a box in which you will place cards. Each one of the cards will refer to a different category, city, food, clothes, sport, objects, color, etc. Instructions: Divide the students into two teams. Each team takes turns picking Read more
Spymasters
Objectives: To learn new vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: You will need 10 small different color cards. On each card, write a sentence including a new English word. Underneath each word write 3 clues which will help students to figure out the meaning of the words, written on the Read more
Talk to my back!
Objectives: To revise vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: You will need a chair. Also, on a big piece of paper write the meaning of a new English word and stick the paper on the student’s back, sited on the chair. On the board write 3 sentences containing the new Read more