Activity 72- Asking Questions

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Level: Any

Skill: Listening and Speaking

Grammar point: Yes/No questions

Material needed: Pictures; Flash cards

Instructions:

Display several pictures/ flashcards on the board (or floor). Select one of them and have students ask Yes/No questions in order to find out the picture you are thinking of.

Tip: Even though it can be adapted to any level, beginning levels usually profit more from it, for students can be encouraged to form small groups and take turns thinking of a picture and responding to their classmates’ questions. 

Source: Vânia Rodrigues

Activity 71- Speculating About People

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Skill: Listening and Speaking

Grammar point: Speculating about people

Material needed: Large pictures of people you know (or Power Point Slides with Pictures of people you know)

Instructions: 

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Before starting the activity, talk to students about people’s physical appearance and how much they can figure out from one’s character just by looking at him/her. Give examples using famous people’s age and how young, for instance, they might look, but not necessarily be.

Then show pictures of people you know well and ask students to speculate about those people’s likes and dislikes, interests, age, background, and so on. Finally, tell students how much they have actually guessed just by looking at the pictures.   

Variation: You can ask students to bring pictures of people they know well, and then have them work in pairs or small groups to speculate about the photographs they have brought.

Source: Vânia Rodrigues

Activity 70- Memorizing Messages

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Level: any

Skill: Mainly writing

Grammar point: any

Material needed: a pen and a piece of paper

Instructions:

-          write a sentence and show it to a student at the front;

-          give this student from 5 to 10 seconds (depending on the level), then hide the sentence;

-          this student writes the sentence you’ve shown on a piece of paper;

-          the next student has from 5 to 10 seconds to look at the sentence;

-          the next students follow the same procedure;

-          as the sentence goes around the whole class until the last student has had a chance to look at his classmate’s sentence;

-          Finally, ask the last student to read the sentence and compare it to the one you have written.

Students will have a lot of fun hearing both sentences and how much the content has changed. This can be done in smaller classes as well as large classes, for students can keep on memorizing and rewriting the original sentence while you move on with your lesson.

Variation:

For Advanced levels, you can show the first student a short story for about 30 seconds, then ask him/her to rewrite it, using his/her own words. When the story reaches the last student, check how different the story has ended.

Source: Vânia Rodrigues

Activity 69- Practicing Prepositions

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Level: Any

Skill: Listening and Speaking

Grammar point: Prepositions of place

Material needed: Pictures of places or scenarios; Flash cards; objects displayed around the classroom (for beginning levels)

Instructions: 

Using one of the materials suggested, ask students to explain the relationship between the places, objects or people, using the prepositions you want student to review/ reinforce.

Variation: You can also use this activity to have students write sentences, using prepositions.

Source: Vânia Rodrigues