Non-textbook activities: brainstorm To try: Mumford- blanked out sentence.. varying points for parts of speech..

supply parts of speech with blanks Ss try to guess the sentence and remain within budget Bilborough (Memory ?) : Odds and Evens keeping a discussion going across room by calling out students numbers from other group.. lose point for hesitation, digression, calling out number from own group etc Dictionary Activities: dice idea for story elaboratione.g. six verbs of movement instead of walk throw dice to determine.. ; six character adjectivesetc Reading out student-gend dialogues from last line backwards .. guess context Basic 24 and reserves: Who wrote what ? Running dictation

Telegraph sentences /chunks Switcheroo dialogue

Just-a-min (elevator pitch/ pechakucha/ powerpoint karaoke)(variation w/ absurdly boring topics)

Call my bluff L2 to T ; Scottish to Ss ; bi-lingual dictionary / obscure words ; Dictionary of Slang ; Paper conversations/ paper facebook Taboo definitions Mumford: A and B sentences : Numbered blanks for each sentence Jumbled words below in box/list- teams take it in turns to say where a word should go. Thornbury slips shtick write questions to teacher on slips ; T rejects wrong questions, possibly hinting

Double-mingle icebreakers Topic intro: define on different coloured slips ; put in hat ; pick colours other than your own ; with your partner discuss and rank ; report Retranslation slipsChinese whispers

Graffiti debates/ gallery stroll/ thought museum Mad- libs Mr and Mrs- predicting others answers..: variation = make multiple choice quizzes about people in your group ; bet on answers

The three-headed fortune teller Dice and genre b/w Action/ Description 2nd conditional consequences procedure (fold first half of structure etc)- for other structures ?

Mumford grid puzzles / sentence clock

Amnesia / rel cls etc

where error lies ; writes answers to correct qs ; Ss reconstruct Ts story by pooling ; cf Steves icebreaker- qs to teacher; T ans correct; thumbs down for wrong Reading aloud- Chain reading. Ss stop in middle of text/ sentence/ wordnominate another Student around class to carry on ; they must carry on seamlessly ; (Also, pause reading T marks pauses before predictable ends of chunks etcs.reads out text, pausing for Ss to predict next word) From Dornyei: Back-channelling games (trivial news etc) ; Stopping Uncle Freddy ; interrupting T so T cant get to end of story within a time-limit ; pet subjects ; subjects chain Ever-expanding sentence Coffee-potting/ thingamijigs Auditory pelmanism Sentence auction blockbusters 4X4 collocations gridchoose co-ordinates / find paired bits of phrases.. cf auditory pelmanism.. but this one visual !

Compound words associations grid .. Occasion > TimE Era Multiplication >Table Desk . Reverse dictionary- points for how close to dictionary definitions Backs to the board racetwo seats Plain tale/ story elaboration.. NB Nick Bilborough version- T supplies skeleton and questions/ Ss brainstorm details ; RECAP PERIODICALLY ; New Skeleton Ss in groups write questions ; pass to others to elaborate ; write it !

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 Research more COOLERS ( e.g. see Oxford/ English file website) Write up/ add more re-seating procedures (e.g. dialogue halves from Nick Bilborough) ENERGISERS: Dont forget Newspaper Bash ; Ratsnrabbits No yes/ no Bananas One question behind Brainstorming: collaborative spidergrams. Pass round, add more branches Mind-map on board gradual wipe off.. aktan okumak Disappearing Dialogues Jazz Chants Fillers: Hink-Pink ; homophones/ homonyms/ ambiguous sentences/ Anglish Languish/ Saxonish/ kennings ; Answers to Questions games Write one-word/ short answers in scrambled order partners ask questions from your sheet to determine significance Your words, my talk Your sentences, my paragraph Procedure for boring display questions in the book: T gives own answers out of order.. students say which question T is answering. CCQ vocab Idea for call-my-bluff games : students suggest different parts of speech / different stress patterns, pronunciations for words. Pelmanism Dominoes Turn-tokens ; tear off strip from toilet roll idea ; S-gend role plays Dice and genre: tweak with grid of parts of speech brainstorm typical words for genres first

Post-its on forehead games Cocktail party- post-its on backs games Beating around the bush tricky news games.. Empty Chair Procedures (and other procedures inventing characters/biographies etc) Tell someone elses story procedures (in front of class- Rinvolucri etc) Longshots : definitions in role etc Narrative : Yes/.no riddle stories seagull/cannibal etc Cumulative complaints Rise and fall Snowball Serendipity Unfortunately/ fortunately stories From literature: Constructivist Poems Elevens ? poems ; diamante ..; Mini-sagas.. ; flash fiction (other short forms) Limericks Acrostics ; Zeugma Cut-up technique: e.g. take a sentence or two from text: arrange in vertical columns of five.. write new sentences across the way Constrained writing etc The Garden of Awful Serendipity: slips with concrete nouns/ abstract nouns/ adjectives.. > book or film title/ slogan / song lyric etc T-centric: Teacher as DVD Hard: Hidden Sentence Fish-for-it

Register Interpreter Dictogloss Student-to-student dictation (e.g. a Poem about Responsibility ) Mumford- L or R game- sentence with odd number of words Mumford ET Professional article- toilet paper rolling.. ideas for tenses etc.. TPR: target practice on board Spelling on back / back-writing Lip-reading Air-writing Gestures for phrasal verbs (see Minimax books) Tear-strips off board gap-fills / error corrections .. make into a race for revision (Sarah in Newcastle) Rebecca/ Edinburgh: half the class close their eyes other class get e.g. news to break to partner.. Bob Obee Grammar Games.. e.g. cards with thumb over missing preposition shtick Re-download Recipes for Tired Teachers ? Debate clines: Clines for opinion in space- in room / on board Toss a coin/throw a dice .. for degree of agreement in discussion.. after discussion , others work out your number Angels/ devils Device fold over from bottom of paper- multiple device from classmates to rank at end Drama: subtext at shoulder Australia double-booking Logic: Survival Scenarios Negotiations The Hot Buttons game- In Company