GAMES
FOR THE YOUNG LEARNER CLASSROOM
PASS
THE SQUEEZE
Materials: none
Purpose: vocabulary
review
Instructions:
Choose an area
of vocabulary for practise. Write no more than 10 words on the blackboard
and number them,Sit the students in two rows facing each other.They must
be close together.Students hold hands which must be kept low and out of
sight.Choose a word and squeeze the corresponding numbers to the first
members of each team.The "squeeze" is then passed along to the end of the
line.The last student runs to the board and writes the word they had squeezed
to them.Everyone moves along one place and you choose another word.
CORRECT/INCORRECT
Materials : none
Purpose: practise
correct/ incorrect sentences
Instructions:
Divide the class in
two teams.Have them stand in two lines.One side of the line is correct
and the other is incorrect.Tell the students a sentence and they jump to
the appropiate side of the line.
This can also be used
using true-false or played on a stand up/sit down basis , and also
by repetition.
ALPHABET/NUMBER
ELIMINATION
Materials:none
Purpose: practise
alphabet or numbers ( up to 20)
Instructions:
Students sit in a
circle.Each student can say one or two letters of the alphabet.The student
who has too say "M" is eliminated.Another letter can also be included
to make the game faster.
It also works as a
pair work, but no student is eliminated. The student who has to say "Z"
wins.
The numbers version
can be called "Unlucky 13" or as a pair work "Lucky 13"
SWAP
YOUR CHAIR
Materials : none
Purpose: Reviewing
different structures such as to be , have got ,, present tense, past tense...
Instructions:
Students sit on chairs
in a circle.The teacher stands in the middle of it.Say a sentence, if it
is true for any students they must stand up and change places with someone
else who stands up.The teacher sits down in an empty chair so a student
is left in the middle.He or she must now say a sentence.If nobody moves
a trick is to make the sentence negative.It works better if students can't
swap places with the person next to them.
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SPEAKING
CLOCKS
Materials: none
Purpose: Reviewing
the time
Instructions:
Draw a clock on the
blackboard.Write the letters of the alphabet around the clock so that two
or three letters are given to each number.Tell the students a word and
they tell you the time using the following formula:the first letter of
the word represents the minutes and the last letter the hour hand.This
can be played in teams and finally the words and times can be used to form
questions or sentences.

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