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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book
Activities
Activity 18: I have it in my name
Issoufou Kanda Ibrahim – Niger
Age: All ages
15–20 minutes Large classes? Yes Mixed level? Yes
Materials: None.
Organisation: Group work and whole class.
Aim: To practise/revise the alphabet and numbers. To practise listening for specific information,
pronunciation of numbers and letters.
Description: This activity is a simple and fun way to revise the alphabet and numbers and is also
quite cognitively challenging for children as they have to associate letters and numbers.
Preparation: No preparation is needed for this activity.
Procedure
The teacher
1. Say a number and a letter, for example, ‘three, M’. Tell the children that if they have an ‘M’ as
the third letter in their name, they should raise their hand. All the children who have M as the
third letter in their name raise their hands and then take it in turns to spell out their name
together with the numbers corresponding to the position of each letter.
For example:
Teacher: Three M
Child: My name is Asma, one A, two S, three M, four A
Notes
You might want to explain the activity in the children’s first language as the instructions are
quite complicated!
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