 Sts mime what they had for dinner last night.

 Weekend: 5 words from each student to describe last weekend.

 Charades: sts mime a film, book or play with a time limit; teams guess.
 Spot the lie: given topic, create 4 sentences (in groups) , one is a lie …
 20 Questions:
is it an animal? - is it mineral?- can we eat it? - do you have one? - is it big? - does it …

 Guess the town, city, country. One student describes and the others guess.
 How do youstart
- a car, make a telephone call, make a cup of tea, make mashed potatoes, underline a word in MSword, …
 The last letter: word game; word starts with last letter of
lifeprevious word
- England - draw - weather - …

 Word association: each student gives a different word connected with previous
one given; start for example black
with: black,
- night - sleep or warm,
- snore - … or huge, …

 Cooperate story; you give the first sentence: e.g. "the boys are in the wood",
"the girl is sitting at the table", "the man is in the water", … A continues with a
sentence, The
B then adds
boys are another
in the wood. sentence,
They play next
hide and seek. comes
Suddenly, … C, etc. etc.
 Brainstorm all words that melt, are green, etc.
 Brainstorm round a term (mind map): e.g. fruit, cooking, furniture, playing
music, etc.
 Sts persuade the others that their favourite is best: colour, animal, film, etc.
 Put words into categories: countries, food, animals, furniture, clothing, colours
…
 Jumbled sentences: Mix up order of words in a sentence.
 Anagrams:
cheater (teacher) - admirer (married) - listen (silent) - below (elbow) - beak (bake) - to hum (mouth) - team (meat)

 Picture dictation: one student describes a picture and the other draws it.
 Mime an idiom: e.g. 'to pull somebody's leg, …
 Coffee-pot game (coffee pot substitutes acoffee-pot
Do you verb):every day? Do you like coffee potting?
 Dialogue building: e.g. telephone conversation to order a book, checking into a
hotel, etc.
 Sentence game: expand given sentence, e.g.:
"It's Friday"  therefore  I  have to , etc

 "Lettercards": sts draw 3, 4 or 5 cards (depending on level)e/d/r

and find- elder
 dear words- reader - dread - …
where all the letters occur
 Name things in the classroom (write them down), your living room, your office,
etc.
 Crossword template (see page 2): students fill in words
 Hangman: (- - - - - - - - , students guess letters)
 Tenses revision: students are to write down three things they did on the previous
weekend, previous evening, … , or are going to do next weekend, holiday, etc.
 Four senses: sts list 3 things the saw, felt, smelled or heard on their way to
class/work, etc. that morning
 Word seeds: dictate 20 words to be used to prepare a story, orally, in groups
 Small dictation (little texts from the current text book)
 Funny number sequences: even numbers (2, 4, 6, ...), odd numbers (1, 3, 5, ...),
counting down: (30, 29, 28, ..., or 1000, 999, 998, etc., or 100, 97, 93, ...),
multiples of 7 (7, 14, 21, ...), or multiples of 1.5 (1.5, 3, 4.5, …)

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 And of course games around my cards: sts take a card and "play" the
intended game
I have prepared lots of cards - nouns, verbs, adjectives and special themes like
"reported speech", "present continuous" (pictures), general English revisions,
tenses, etc. etc.
Possible "games":
- 20 questions, pictionary, make a story using x words (noun cards)
- opposites, comparatives, superlatives (adjective cards)
- past and past participles, or make a sentence using the verb (verb cards)
Note: If you want some cards, send me an email and I'll send you the files
(xinalisa@aim.com)

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 Rules: Fill in a word (as long as possible), using one or several of the
existing letters.
Note: there must be a gap at each end of the words .

C R O S S W O R D

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