aroo1s Stop he Bus aw Published on TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC (http://www.teachingenglish,org.uk) Home > Stop the Bus TeachingEnglish Stop the Bus Submitted by admin on 23 February, 2012 - 13:26 This is a great game to revise vocabulary and you can use it with any age group and any level by changing the category headings It really gets students focused and working on task as a team and can be a saviour to fill the last ten minutes on a class when you have run out of ideas! Procedure + Put the students into teams of three or four. + Draw on the board a table like the ones below and get each team to copy it onto a piece of paper + Students simply have to think of one item to go in each category beginning with the set letter. + Give an example line of answers for the first time you play with a new group. + The first team to finish shouts “Stop the Bus!” * Check their answers and write them up on the board and if they are all okay that team wins a point. If there are any mistakes in their words, let the game continue for another few minutes. + fit gets too difficult with certain letters (and you can't think of one for each category) reduce the amount of words they have to get. You can say. “Ok. For this round you can Stop the Bus with 4 columns’, tla teachingonlsh.org.ukiprint2428 18aroo1s Stop he Bus Animals | Colours Food Clothes | Countries | Sports T|Tiger [Turquoise |Tuna | Trousers [Tunisia | Tennis For higher levels change the category headings. For example: Something | Something in | something | something in| something | Something inthe theliving inthe the inthe inthe Kitchen | room bedroom bathroom Office garden S| Spices Sofa Sheet Soap Staples | Seat Or, for even higher levels something | Something _| something something | Something , made of made of metal made of glass | made of plastic |made of wood ; material B Bike Bottle Bin Bench Belt By Jo Budden First published 2009 LA content type: games field_vote: Your rating: None Average: 3.6 (309 votes) ‘Terms of Use | Privacy | Freedom of information | Frequently asked questions | Accessibility | Cookie policy | Contact us © British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A tla teachingenlsh org. ukprint2428 2BN, UK 28aroo1s Stop he Bus BBC World Service, Bush House, Strand, London WC2B 4PH, UK Poa aie . Beret) << IW . “saa ‘Source URL: http://www. teachingenglish org. uk/language-assistant/games/stop-bus tla teachingenlsh org. ukprint2428 38