| Describe It
Application: Present tense, adjectives (size, shape, color, etc), for elementary level.
How to play: The teacher thinks of an object and talks about it, e. g. “It is flat and square and made of wool. I have several at home, and I walk on them”, etc. He /She can pause every now and then to let students guess “Are you thinking of a …?” until one guesses correctly “carpet”. One student (an able one at first) can then think of an object and talk about it for as long as he can; others can interrupt with guesses. The student who talks the longest is the winner.
As a variation, this can be organized as a team game.
What’s My Line?
Application: Present simple forms ( for elementary level).
How to play: A student thinks of an occupation and gives a mime demonstration. Students ask questions like:
Do you work with a lot of people?
Do you work outside/inside?
Do you use tools?
Do you use pen/paper?
Do you travel in your job?
If the job presenter can give a “No” answer ten times, then he has beaten the rest of the class. The class should try and narrow the area of the occupation by linked questions.
The teacher should write on the board as many different occupations as possible and discuss them with the students. The question forms are also very important and should be written up the first time. Try to introduce as many different verbs as possible, e. g. work, wear, use, travel, etc.
Следующие задания рекомендуется проводить в перерывах между напряжённым трудом во время урока. Приведёмнесколькопримеров.
What’s My Name?
These statements are clues to the identity of the person given below them. These clues can be used as a fun quiz, for oral practice, as a written test or simply as an introduction to conversation topics.
He is already dead.
He lived for 67 years.
He was Italian.
He was a famous engineer.
He died in 1519.
He was a very famous painter.
You can see his most well-known painting in the Louvre in Paris.
It’s called the “Mona Lisa”. (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Pyramid"
The teacher writes a letter, for example A, and the students begin to "build a pyramid" under the letter, i.e. add one letter to the left or to the right of it so that the word is obtained (the order of the letters in the previous word can be changed). For example:
a
am
mat
team
mates
master
The student (or team) who wins the longest word for the "foundation of the pyramid" wins.
Odd Man Out
In these lists of objects and people, all but one in each list have something in common. Which is the odd man out in each list, and why?
Theatre, cinema, town hall, park, hospital;
John, David, Kate, Adam, Christopher;
Teacher, bus, conductor, milkman, father, shopkeeper;
Dollar, gramme, peseta, franc, ruble;
Long, short, clever, tall, high;
Canada, USA, Spain, Australia, London;
Friday, December, Wednesday, Sunday, Monday;
River, street, motorway, road, avenue.
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