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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 33: Swap the dot Antonella Sartoris – Italy Age: 5–8 15 minutes Large classes? No Mixed level? No Materials: Circles of card. Each circle has either a colour or a number on it. Use actual colours and write numbers (e.g. 5), rather than writing the words. Organisation: Whole class. Aim: To practise recognising and saying number words and colours. Description: Each child has a card with either a colour or a number. The teacher calls out a number and a colour. The children with these cards must stand up, shout out their colours or numbers, and swap cards. Preparation: You will need to prepare the card circles, depending on the number of children in the class. For 20 children, you will need 10 colour cards and 10 number cards. The colours can be red, yellow, pink, blue, green, black, white, grey, orange, brown, for example. Procedure 1. Ask the children to stand in a circle and give each one a card. 2. Practise the vocabulary. You can do this by pointing to each card, saying the word and asking the children to repeat; by saying a word and asking the child with the card to hold it up; by going round the circle and asking each child to say their word, and so on. 3. Now play the game. Call out a number and a colour, for example, five and orange. The children with these cards must come to the centre, shout out their words and then swap their cards. 4. Repeat until all the children have swapped cards. 5. Now ask each child to say what is on their new card. Notes Once you have made the cards, you can use them to revise colours and numbers. You can also write the colour or number on the back of the cards and use these to teach the written form. 72 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Alternatives • If you have a larger class, you can add another group to the numbers and colours, for example, animals. The teacher then calls out three words – for example, ‘5, blue, tiger’ – and the children swap three cards. • When the children have all swapped cards, they can put them face down and the class can try to remember which child has which card. • Put all the cards face down on the floor (with the number/colour facing the floor). Children take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can say the names correctly, they keep the cards. If not, the cards are put back in the same place. NO RESOURCES? You can use old newspaper or scrap paper rather than card. Or you could also give each child a colour or number that they have to remember. When the teacher calls a number and colour, the children with these words come to the middle of the circle and say, ‘I am red’ and ‘I am 12’ and so on. They then swap words rather than cards. 5 © British Council 2012 73
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