Game Activities K3 B5
The Family
Ask students to say the names of family
members they know. Hold up the
corresponding cutouts as they name them.
Leave the cutouts on the chalk ledge for
reference. Ask students how they feel about
their families.
T: Do you love your family? How can you show
them you care about them?
Allow them to share their ideas freely.
Game: Thin and Tall
Divide the class into two teams and place all
the magazine pictures on the board. Call a
member from each team to the front.
Describe one of the people for the two
students to identify the picture.
T: He’s thin and tall.
Have the first student to identify the person
take the picture. Repeat the procedure until
all the pictures have been taken. The team with
the most pictures wins the game.
Grandma’s Glasses
Ask them when Grandma wears her glasses.
Encourage students to share their experiences
when their grandparents read to them and
have to put their glasses on.
Taller or shorther
Divide the class into pairs. Have them sit
together in different places around the room.
Compare the sizes of different students in each
pair.
T: (Santiago) is shorter. (Ana) is taller.
Say the words taller or shorter, one of the pair
should get up.
Jump Up
Have students sit in a circle on the floor. Invite
a volunteer to stand in the middle of the circle.
Have the rest of the class compare their height
with the volunteer's.
T: If you’re taller than (Silvia), jump up.
S: (Students who think they are taller than the
student in the middle jump up to stand next
to her.)
Comment on all of them and encourage the
class to join in.
T: (Karen) is taller than (Silvia). (Alfredo) is not
taller than (Silvia). He’s shorter.
Then have them all sit down. Choose another
student and repeat with shorter.
Vocabulary Review
Give out Family Member cutouts to different
students. Tell students to be very quiet for this
activity. Name different people. Ask students
to hold up the corresponding cutouts for each
word. Then have the rest of the class say the
word chorally.
Game: Teacher, May I?
Explain to the class that you are going to call
out a step type and a number of steps. For
example, the steps can be big Papa Bear steps,
medium Mother Bear steps, or small Baby Bear
steps.
T: Take one big Papa Bear step.
Demonstrate taking a big step. Repeat with
medium and small steps. Have students stand in
a line facing you several meters away. Give each
student commands.
T: (Sonia), take two Baby Bear steps.
The student has to ask:
S: (Miss Martha), may I?
T: Yes, you may.
Continue giving commands until one of the
students reaches you.
Game: Musical Photocards
Arrange the key vocabulary photocards in a
circle on the floor. Play some music and have
students march around the outside of the circle.
When you stop the music, students sit down.
Encourage students to identify the photocard
they are sitting next to. Continue playing until
all students have had a chance to identify
a photocard.
Match the Words
Write two sets of key vocabulary words on the
board in lowercase letters, in random order.
Say the words as you write each one. Then
have students come up one by one and match
the words that are the same. Next, say the
initial letter of each one of the words and have
students identify them.
T: I like reading a b, b, b...
S: Book.
T: A baby dog is called a p, p, p...
S: Puppy
Form a Word
Write each of the letters of the key vocabulary
words on white paper (see materials). Write
each letter as many times as possible. Give one
letter to each student. Ask them to stick
the letter on their chest with masking tape. Play
some music and ask them to walk around. Stop
the music randomly and call out one of the key
vocabulary words. Explain that they have to get
together in order to form that word. The first
students to form the word earn a point. Play
the music again and repeat the activity with a
different word.
I Know These Words
Attach all the key vocabulary photocards to
the board and write their names next to them.
Read the words aloud with students. Then give
out paper. Have students choose two pictures
to draw and copy the corresponding words.
Game: Find the Word
Attach the key vocabulary photocards to the
board. Divide the class into two teams. Ask a
member of each team to stand against the wall
opposite the board, one on the left and one
on the right. Call out a word and have the two
students run to the board and point to the correct
word. The first student to point to the correct word
scores a point for his or her team. Repeat with the
remaining students. The team with the most
points wins.
Game: The Silly Chain Game
Have students sit in a circle. Start the chain by
saying what you have in your “pocket”. Then
point to a student. Encourage him or her to
continue the chain, adding an item that is in
their “pocket”. The next student adds another
word, and so on.
T: I have a bottle in my pocket.
S: I have a bottle and a T-shirt in my pocket.
If a student misses an item in the chain or
cannot think of one, start the game again.
Spell the Words
Divide students into two teams. Give one
student from each team a marker or chalk.
Ask students to call out a word from the key
vocabulary. For example, teeth. Then write
teeth on the board leaving out the vowels:
t_ _ th. Ask two volunteers to come up and
complete the word. The first to finish and write
the word correctly wins a point for their team.
Repeat with all key vocabulary and alternate
students so that everyone has a turn.
Let’s Mime It
Hand out the baby, brother, sister, and cousin
cutouts to different students and have
them stand at the front. Give the students
holding the brother, sister, and cousin cutouts
commands for miming different actions with
their cutout. Then ask the class whether or not
the student holding the baby cutout can do the
same action. If so, the baby mimes the action.
If not, the class has to say what the baby can do
and then the student holding the baby cutout
mimes it.
T: Cousin can draw.
S: (The student holding the cousin cutout
mimes the action.)
T: Class, what can Cousin do?
S: Cousin can draw.
T: Can Baby draw?
S: No.
T: What can Baby do?
S: Baby can scribble. (The student holding the
baby cutout mimes the action.)
Race to the Board
Review the key vocabulary and attach the
paper strips to the board. Divide the class
into two teams. Ask a member of each team
to stand against the wall opposite the board,
one on the left and one on the right. Call out
a word and have the two students run to the
board and point to the correct word. The first
student to point to the correct word scores
a point for his or her team. Repeat with the
remaining students. The team with the most
points wins.
Touch, Touch, Touch!
Show students a Clothes photocard and ask
them to touch the part of the body where they
wear this piece of clothing. Do it with all the
clothes. Increase the difficulty by calling out
the vocabulary and without using the pictures.
turns answering the question and pointing to
the corresponding vacation spot on the poster.
Puppets: Where can we go?
S1: (Points to the theme park.) You can go to
the theme park.
Mime a Word
Have students make a circle. Call out words
from the key vocabulary and ask students
to mime the word, for example: Boat. Have
students pretend they are in a boat or car.
Encourage students to mime they are driving.
Continue with the rest of the words.
My Favorite Vacation Place
Have students share their favorite place when
they go on vacation. Draw a beach on the
board.
T: I like to go to the beach. This is my favorite
vacation place.
Encourage students to do the same and draw
their favorite places, either on white sheets of
paper or on the board.
Characters: Feelings
Draw smilies on the board to show the feelings
happy, sad, and angry. Turn the pages of the
story and ask students to point to different
characters and say their feelings.
T: Point to Baby Bear. How does he feel?
Ss: Sad.
Where Can We Go?
Ask two volunteers to come to the front and
hold one of the puppets. Teach them the
question:
T: Where can we go?
Have them practice saying it. Then take out
Poster 8. Have the rest of the class form a long
line on one side of the poster. Hold up the
puppets to ask the question. Have students take
Game: Catch Me!
Have students sit in a circle. Show them the
Vehicle cutouts from the unit. Place them
in a pile in the center of the circle. Take the
first cutout and show it to students. Have a
volunteer walk around the outside of the circle.
Instruct him or her to say the names of all the
vehicles he or she can recall while touching
each student in the circle on the head. When
the volunteer says the word on the cutout,
the student whose head is touched at that
moment must stand up and chase the volunteer
around the circle. The first one to sit in the spot
remains seated and chooses the next cutout.
The student left standing begins the game
again.
Game: Tap the Beach Ball
Have students stand in different parts of the
classroom. Tap the beach ball to a student.
Name a beach item. Then have that student
name another beach item and tap the ball to
another student. Repeat until all the beach
items have been named.
Around the Circle
Have students sit in a circle. Play lively
music. Have students pass some Action
cutouts around the circle as the music plays.
Pause the music. The students holding the
cutouts name them in the past tense. Play
the track again. Repeat the activity until
everyone has had a chance to name a Unit
cutout.
Do an airplane role-play.
Read the question aloud:
T: What can you see on a plane? Have students
answer and express themselves.
Ask students if they have ever been on an
airplane. Invite them to share their experiences.
Talk about the different people on a plane:
pilot, flight attendant, and passengers. Show
them the photos or cutouts of the people
playing each role.
T: Point to the pilot.
S: (Students point to the corresponding picture.)
Discuss what a pilot does. Then have students
point to the flight attendant and passengers.
Discuss what flight attendants and passengers
do. Next, tell students that they are going to set
up an airplane cabin in the classroom. Provide
them with the props. Help them create the scene.
Allow them to choose roles and play freely.
Find Your Seat
Arrange 20 chairs in rows to represent seats on
an airplane. Attach the Seat Labels to the back
of each chair with tape. Leave a space between
the rows to represent an aisle.
Choose a student to be the ticket seller. Have
him or her pass out the Airplane Tickets to
twenty students.
Invite any extra students to be flight attendants.
Have them help the passengers find their seats
by matching the number on their ticket to
the number of dots on the seat label. When
all students have found their seat, have each
student say his or her seat number aloud.
I Know These Words
Elicit all the vocabulary words students know
and write them on the board. Once the board
is covered with words, encourage each student
to come up and make a sketch of one of the
words. When they finish, remove the words
and leave the sketches so that you can ask the
whole class about the words they represent.
We Went Camping
Attach Action cutouts to the board. Divide the
class into pairs. Tell students to pretend they
went on a camping trip together. Ask them to
choose four actions they carried out on the trip
and decide on the order of the actions. Instruct
pairs to describe their camping trip using first,
then, next, and finally. Give students time to
practice as you monitor and help them as
necessary. Afterward, invite pairs to come to
the front and tell the class about their trip.
Roll a Ball
Have students sit in a circle. Start to describe
an imaginary trip. Roll a ball to a student and
describe a destination.
T: I went to the mountains.
The student who catches the ball adds another
sentence.
S1: I went by bus.
S1 rolls the ball to S2. S2 adds another sentence.
S2: I went by bus. I stayed in a tent.
Carry on in the same manner, having each
student add another sentence. Model the past
tense. Have students repeat after you. After a
while, change the destination and continue
the activity.
Game: Musical Photocards
Arrange the photocards (sleeping bag,
flashlight, hot dog, fish, picnic, marshmallow,
camping, camp fire, tent) in a circle on the floor.
Play some music and have the students march
outside the circle. Explain that when the music
stops, they should sit down. Stop the music.
Have the students sitting next to a photocard
say what it is and keep the photocard.
When there are no more photocards the
game finishes.

Game: Tic-Tac-Toe
Draw a tic-tac-toe grid on the board. Choose
six Photocards from the unit or from previous
units and attach each to a tic-tac-toe grid.
Divide the class into two teams: “X” and “O.”
Ask a member from the “X” team to come to
the board and say a sentence with one of the
photocards in the grid.
S: That’s an airport.
If the sentence is correct, remove the card and
draw an “X” in the space. Continue with the
next team. The first team to get three X’s or
three O’s in a row (horizontally, vertically, or
diagonally) wins.