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PASS THE CHICKEN!
The prop is the most important element to this game : ) To begin, all students sit in a circle. Select one person to be IT. That person holds the rubber chicken. The teacher or a "caller" says to the person holding the chicken, "Name five animals. Pass the chicken!" As soon as the caller says, "Pass the chicken," the person holding…
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8 Oct 2009First, hand out a list of sixteen homophone pairs to your students, such as tale and tail, night and knight, ect. These lists can be readily found online or you can make your own. You might need to take some time to explain or review the meanings of words on the list. Next, give each student a standard 8.5 X 11 inch (A4) sheet of paper. Folded in half four…
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3 Sep 2009 This is a classic TPR game (Total Physical Response) and gets the students up and participating, as well as learning actively.
The teacher (or a student(s)) instructs other students to do certain actions.
Ex. Simon says, "Touch your nose"! or Simon says, "jump up and down".
If the caller doesn't say "Simon says" and only, "Touch your nose" and if a student does that…
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Foldables are a great way to make your lessons "active" and also more about fostering thinking skills.
They can be of all sorts. Just start with a piece (or pieces) of paper and get the students folding and labeling. Like HERE.
They can be as elaborate as Accordion Books or as simple as a 4 square graphic organizer. Go
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16 Aug 2009
Kids love to draw! Use that interest to develop their English.
This lesson recipe is my "go to" lesson. An idea which you can use at the last minute for almost any children's class. Also a good lesson when unprepared or just plain tired/hungover! (it happens).
Give each student a blank A4 piece of paper. Draw a large rectangle on the board. Give the chalk…
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4 Aug 2009
Arts and crafts are great for young learners. Get cooking and using these "real recipes" to create some clay and play dough for language learning.
Get the students to challenge each other by moulding something while the others guess what it is! Or, create combination things to practice compound words "dog chair" or a Bat plane" Enjoy these delicious "real recipes"!
Magic Clay
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Children, especially young boys, love cars!
Pop up cars are great for talking about colors and car vocabulary. Get the children coloring their cars and then cut them out, fold and show and tell to the whole class! They will love their cars!
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28 Jul 2009This game is also known as 7 up.
Select 4-5 students and give them a flashcard/picture.
All other students put their heads down and one thumb up. The other students go around the classroom and gently squeeze one student's thumb. They return to the front of the class.
The student's whose thumbs were squeezed stand up and guess who did it by stating the vocabulary on the flashcard "Did a "bear" squeeze me?". …
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