The teacher says the question and throws the ball to any learner seated in his place at the desk. The learner catches the ball and must answer in 3 seconds. If the answer is right, the rest of the class shout enthusiastically in chorus “O.K!” If the answer is wrong, the class reacts “Oh, no!” with disappointment. If the learner with the ball can not answer instantly, the rest of the learners start counting “one, two, and three”. If the answer does not come, they react disappointedly with “Oh, no!” The learner can throw the ball back to the teacher only AFTER the class reacts. The procedure goes on around until the teacher gets enough feedback information.
To take/draw out/choose one colour pencil and describe the emotions it calls or describe the event the colour associates with.
Learners/players = “cats” (a group not less than 6 people) stand in a circle rather close to each other. The one who starts the game has a small ball in his hands. He/she tries to find out the faulty cat = a mouse. The leader throws the ball to the player in front and says the question. The player in front catches the ball and says the answer. The one who gives the right answer is “a cat”; the one who doesn’t know the answer or gives a wrong answer is “a mouse” and has to escape. “The mouse” runs outside the circle with the ball in hands, and “the cat” tries to catch it. The players in the circle keep their hands behind them waiting for the ball. “The mouse” aims to get back to “its” place and, meanwhile, puts the ball into the hands of any player in the circle. “The mouse” and “the cat” get back to the circle; the player with the ball in hands starts the game anew.
STRUCTURE OF THE GAME
- One student is the leader and says some imperatives
- The other students listen and do these actions
- The leader says ‘’Simon says STAND UP’’and the other students do it
- When the leader says only ‘’STAND UP’’ without saying ‘’ SIMON SAYS ‘’ the others should stand still otherwise they will be out of the game
- This game is also used to teach dance figures trough the target language
Example : Belly dance or gypsy dance
- Attach a piece of paper to each student’s back
- Student are staying in a circle
- On each paper a word is written which belongs to a category
- The students have to find the group they belong to but without speaking to each other,
- The group that finishes earliest is the winner.
STRUCTURE OF THE GAME
- Students sit in a circle,
- Each student is given a vocabulary card but they don’t look until their turn comes,
- The first student looks at his/her word on the card and starts the story including that word ,
- When the first student stops talking the next one opens the card and links the new word to the story and talks about it,
- This activity keeps on until each card is opened
- Group the students of 3 or 5,
- Give a sentence of the beginning of a story to each group,
- The groups will write the first part of the story and pass the paper to the next group in order to write second part and then pass it again to write the final part,
- Lastly , all the stories are read to the whole class.
- Group the students of 3 or 5,
- Each group writes 4 words to the board,
- Then mix the words and give each group 4 words,
- Each group will write a short story including the words that they are given and put on the stage
- Divide the class in two or three.
- Each student has a hat written ‘’ while I am talking … ‘’ on it , but they don’t look at their own hats.
- They start to talk about a topic,
- While one student is talking the others are doing what is written on his/her hat.
- While I am talking LAUGH,CRY,JUMP etc.
