post 2. Sentence Race

Vocabulary Game
Elementary - Advanced
Group Work
Students make sentences to make a good paragraph
For building writing skill, improving vocabulary, and/or building speaking skill

The teacher
The teacher prepares the words. They can be new vocabulary or learnt vocabulary. Each group has got the same words.

Class Activities
The students are divided into some teams, depending on the number of students. Students have got word(s). The Teacher mentions a word. The students taking that word must run to the white board/prepared paper on the wall and make sentences. After that, the teacher mentions the second word, and the member bringing that word does what the first member does before. Before writing, s/he must read the previous sentence(s) well in order to make a good paragraph.

Students and teacher can discuss the mistakes made. Having completed the tasks, in chorus, the students tell the story made. It can be used to review learnt vocabulary or to provide new word(s).

Comments

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Post 5. Story Cubes

Speaking game Pre-Intermediate - Advance To build story based on the picture and words in the cube The Teacher The teacher prepares the cubes with pictures and words like verbs, phrasal verbs, new vocabularies, and so forth. The cubes can be downloaded from www.islcollective.com or other resources, or the teacher can make them her/himself, to make this activity more suitable with the lessons/materials discussed in the class. Class Activities Students work in pair/group, depending on the number of students. Each student/pair/group has got 2 cubes: the pictures and the words. A student throws the cubes, s/he has got to build a story based on the picture and the provided words. In pairs/groups, the higher level students can make this activity as a chain story. The students must carefully listen to what the previous student(s) say in order to make a good story. This activity can be used to teach writing or grammar.

Post 16. Grouping Students

How to divide students into some groups/pairs Pair works, group works, and class works are common class activities for a big class. When we split students into some teams, or they must work in pairs, we can use another way to group them. Every student has got a word. Students must go around the class and look for friends bringing words in the same given category or decided rule. The decided rules can be looking for synonym, finding the antonym, categorizing, or other ideas. Having found friends bringing the required words, they work in that group. By grouping students in this way, we can also review learnt vocabulary or provide new words for students.

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