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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