Grammar and vocabulary games for children - part 2 ppsx

Game#9)

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This gam e is fun for allchildren,butisespecially helpfulto ESL students who

often find choosing the correctarticle very difticult.Give each child three signs

saying tthe''çta''and çtan''(from page41oftheappendix),and sittheplayers

down in frontofyou.Tellthem thatyou aregoing to say som esentenceswith the

articlesleftout.ltisthechildren'sjobtodecidewhicharticleisneededandthento

hold up their correctsign.The firstchild with the correctsign up w insa point.

Find thew innerattheendofthegam e.Sentencesto read outm ightbe:

a)late........egg.(an)

b)ThenIate.......banana.(a)

c)Jillhas........new toy-(a)

d)Pleaseget.........bookthatison ..........table.(the)

e) Sam has..........sisterandtwobrothers.(a)

9 .........televisionistooloud.(the)

g)M r.Evansbought..........redcar.(a)

h)< atis...........time?(the)

i) Thatisourhouse.ltis.....oldesthousein....street.(the)

j) Youshouldeat.........orangeevel'yday.(an)

k)Isaw ........littlemouse.(a)

1) Davidsaw .........octopus.(an)

m).........antisonthetable.(an)

n)..........trainwewantedtocatchislate.(the)

Game#10)

Vocabulaly #1:

The following two gam escan beused to testany vocabularyyou like.Justchange

the w ordsand categories asyou please.These gam esare especially suitable for

ESLstudents,butcanbeenjoyedbyal1childrenjustforfun:

Sortthechildren intopairsand ask eachpairto sitdown onthefloor,facing each

other,in alinewith alltheotherpairs.A sk theplayersto stretch theirlegsstraight

outwith feettouching theirpartner's.Telltheplayersthatoncethegam e starts,it

isveryim portantforthem tokeep theirkneesdown andtheirlegsstillandstraight,

orthey m ightbetrodden on.Give each pairofplayersa category,such asFood,

Anim alorTransport.M orethan onepaircan belongtothesam ecategory.

To play the gam e,say aw ord belonging to one ofthe selected categories.The

playersrepresentingthatcategory mustgetup and nm down to theendoftheline,

stepping between eachpairoflegsastheygo.Thenthey m ustnm behindtheirside

ofthe line,back to theotherend and then down between thelegsandback totheir

places.Thefirstplayerto sitback in hisplacew insapointforhissideoftheline.

Continuethegam euntileveryonehasrun two orthreetim es,and seewhich sideof

the line has scored the m ostpoints.Exam ples ofw ordsin the above categories

could includethoseshown ahead:

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