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Happy families (speaking – asking questions)
Suitable for Young pupils and older pupils with low proficiency level.
Resources Five picture cards per pupil. Each card from a different category.
Method
Put the class into small groups. Assign a category to each pupil (food, clothes, animals, etc.).
The first pupil (category, food) chooses someone in the group and asks, for example, “Do you have
bread?”
If the answer is ‘Yes’, he/she takes the card. If ‘No’, the turn passes to the next pupil.
The first to collect five cards in his/her category is the winner.
I went to the shop … (speaking – chain game, learning vocabulary)
Suitable for Young pupils and older pupils with low proficiency level.
Resources Selection of picture or word cards.
Method
Start the chain by picking a card and saying “I went to the shop and I bought a …”.
The first pupil picks a card, repeats what was said and adds what is on his/her card.
The next pupil does the same and so on. When a pupil gets confused or can’t remember the chain,
start again.
Magic box (speaking, revising vocabulary)
Suitable for Young pupils and older pupils with low proficiency level.
Resources Selection of picture cards – a mix of mostly familiar together with some newly learnt.
Method
Put the picture cards in a ‘magic box’.
Pupils pick one out. If they name the object on the card, they keep it.
Line up (speaking – asking questions, revising vocabulary)
Suitable for Young pupils and older pupils with low proficiency level.
Resources Selection of picture or word cards familiar to pupils.
Method
Pupils line up.
Each pupil comes to the teacher in turn.
The pupil must guess what card the teacher is holding by asking questions, “Is it food?”, “Is it big?”,
“What colour is it?”, etc.
If pupil guesses after questions, he/she keeps the card and returns to the line.
At the end of the game, all pupils count their cards.