Showing posts with label ESL Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ESL Games. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

ESL GAME: Dice roll speak


Divide the class into teams. 

Write a 6 item list the board. e.g.

  1.  I get up at 7.
  2.  I have lunch at 12.
  3.  I come home at 3.
  4.  I have dinner at 8
  5.  I take a shower at 9.
  6.  I go to bed at 10.


The team that rolls reads the sentence that they rolled. 
The other teams should ask the question e.g. What time do you get up?
Cross out the sentence for that team.
If they roll a number that they already crossed out the next team has their turn.The first team to cross out all their sentences wins... 

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

ESL Variation of What's the time Mr Wolf for the classroom


I am currently teaching grade 4 about telling the time and needed a fun game to play.
I remember playing   What's the time Mr Wolf   at school, as a child.  

I would love to take the kids outside and play this as a class activity, but I think my co-teachers would explode in shock at such a radical suggestion (this is Korea, after all)

If you don't remember how to play, here is a link :

This classic English playground game involves a lot of running around and chasing and is 

not suitable for a classroom... 

However, 

I have found a way that we can play this in the classroom.

The teacher or one pupil is the wolf, facing away from the group.
(easy version) 
The students pick a time andhold up 1 to 10 fingers, 1 arm in the air for 11, two arms in the air for 12 or 
(more difficult version) 
make their arms in a clock position. e.g. right arm up left arm to the side for 3 o'clock.

The class say "What's the time Mr Wolf?"
Mr Wolf says a time, e.g. "It's 3 o'clock".  Anyone who made 3 o'clock becomes the wolf.
Then either those students have to sit down and are out - or we swap the wolf, wolf can choose who will be the next wolf if there is more than 1 person out.

I will blog again about how well this works as a classroom activity.