Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Objectives: To revise vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: Cut out characters from Disney’s films. On the characters’ backs, write sentences describing words that students have already been taught. Underneath the utterances, note down 3 clues in order to help the pupils find the missing words. Then place all the Read more

Objectives: To revise the vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 8-10 years old. Preparation: You will need cards with 4 words from students’ vocabulary. Instructions: Divide the students in two teams. Give to each team a card. Each one of the teams has to choose a word from the card and act it. The Read more

Objectives: To practice narrating a story while revising the vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: You will need a small ball. Instructions: Arrange the students in a circle. You have to stand in the middle of it and hold a small ball. Start the game by saying an utterance beginning Read more

Objectives: To revise the vocabulary in a fun way. Age group: 7-10 years old. Preparation: You will need a board, a marker, and some slips of paper. Write on the board some words from their vocabulary. Then, in different places in the classroom, hide the slips of paper which contain synonyms of these words. Instructions: Read more