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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book
Activities
7. Practise the new vocabulary with the whole class by having the children stand in a circle.
Call out the name of a part of the body; the children have to touch the correct part on their
own body. Any child who touches the wrong part is ‘out’. You can gradually increase the
difficulty by, for example, going more quickly or calling out one part but touching a different
part. The last child left in is the winner.
Notes
You will need to decide if it is appropriate for children to be labelling each other in this way.
It might be worth ensuring the pairs/groups are single sex only. Alternatively, draw bodies on
the board or on large pieces of paper, one for each pair/group, which are then labelled.
Alternatives
• Step 7 can also be played non-competitively and with the children in their seats. Simply call
out the parts of the body and have the children touch the relevant part but without excluding
anyone for making a mistake.
• Zorica Petrovska (Macedonia) has this idea for presenting the parts of the body:
1. Put the children into groups of 4–5 and give three small pieces of paper to each member
of the group and one large piece of paper to each group. Tell them to write the name or
draw one part of the body on each piece of paper.
2. Each group folds up the pieces of paper, collects them together and passes them to
another group so that each group has a new set of body parts.
3. Each group opens all the pieces of paper and has to draw a monster using all the parts of
the body on the pieces paper. So, for example, if the group has three pieces of paper with
‘eye’, their monster has to have three eyes. At the end of the activity each group will have
its own monster that can be coloured in and displayed on the wall. You may also ask the
children to label the parts of the body on their monsters.
4. You may also ask the children to label the parts of the body on their monsters.
• Marija Jovic (Serbia) has this idea for revising parts of the body and colours with younger
children, called Make a Sponge Bob:
1. Each child should bring a small sponge to school and some crayons or markers.
The teacher needs to bring toothpicks and a picture of SpongeBob (optional)
2. Draw a picture of SpongeBob on the board or show the children his picture. Ask them
if he’s happy or sad, big or small, what colour he is (if revising colours too).
3. The children make their own SpongeBobs by drawing his trousers, his belt and then his
face. Help them to insert the toothpicks for arms and legs.
4. The children present their SpongeBob and name the parts of the body.
No resources?
These activities use quite a lot of paper. If you do not have a lot of paper available, try to use the
board for some phases, or miss out some stages. For example, rather than giving students pieces
of paper with words and pictures, you could whisper to children what they are. Then, instead of
using sticky labels, you could give students chalk/pens and ask them to write the label. You could
also start the activity at Step 3.
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