Recipes for March, 2011

Hot hands

In: All Ages & Levels| Elementary| Recipe

26 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Two players face each other. One palms up and the other palms down over the other hand. The player with the palms up try to slap the hand with palms down. When successful, the student can ask the other student a question (improvised or from a list). Swap places.…

Language Area!

In: Advanced| All Ages & Levels| Beginner| False Beginner| Intermediate| Recipe

25 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Sometimes it is really difficult to avoid students talk in their mother tongue, so usually I choose a corner of the whiteboard and draw a small circle and write Portuguese Area. So if a students want to say anything that he/she can't say in English he/she has to stand up and go to the Portuguese Area. This is interesting because students don't want to stand up all the time in…

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Message in the air

In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Intermediate| Recipe

25 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Great activity to revise VOCABULARY from previous classes.

Ask students to think of a word they've learned previously. They have to make sure they know how to write it.

Students come to the front of the class and write the word in the air using his index finger. Then, students write down they word and say it out loud. The student who wrote the word in the air gets 1 point for…

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The Phrase

In: Elementary| False Beginner| Recipe

25 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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The teacher elicits some verbs from students (4 or 5 verbs) and writes them on the board. Ex: run-eat-see-fly.

Give students 2 or 3 minutes to write a sentence with all the verbs from the board in the same sequence without adding any other verb except for auxiliaries. Ex: I was running home to eat when I saw a beautiful bird flying.

Students then can mingle and tell each other the sentence…

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