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Teaching Ideas
1. RUNNING DRILL
- Teacher places flashcards all over the room
- Then says a vocabulary item associated with a flashcard
- Sts have to run to the correct flashcard, stand in front of it and say the word as a class.
- Option B: Make sts line up and put the flashcards on the board. Sts/line move to the correct flashcard.
2. POINT TO
- T places the flashcards on the board/around the room
- T says one word and sts have to point to it.
3. PART OF IT
- T shows part of a flashcard and sts have to guess
- T gradually reveals more and more until sts guess
4. CHINESE WHISPER
- Dvidide sts into two teams and have them line up in two single lines
- Show the two sts at the front one flashcard
- Sts turn around and whisper the word down the line
- The last st comes to the front and says the word to the teacher.
o Option B: comes and grabs the correct flashcard
o Option C: comes and writes the word on the board.
5. DRAWING
- Sts work in pairs (so all sts play at the same time) or, you can ask one st to come to the front.
- T sticks flashcards on the board
- One of the sts looks at the flashcard and decides which flashcard to draw, draws it and the other st guesses.
7. CHARADES
- Sts come to the front, show him/her a flashcard and he/she has to act out something
- The other sts guess
o Option B: Two teams. One sts from each team comes to the front. T shows a flashcard to both sts
and have them compete to have their team guess the vocabulary word first.
8. FLASHCARD GRID
- Take 9 flashcards and put them on the board in 3 rows of three. (draw a grid)
- Repetition of the vocabulary
- Take one card away. Drill the sts on the cards.
- Sts have to remember which word was taken.
- Repeat until all are gone.
14. PICTIONARY
- Two teams
- 1 st from each team comes to the board
- T shows the st one F and they have to draw as quickly as possible
- The first team to guess gets a point
16. FLASH
- T shows the flashcard very fast and sts guess
24. POSSESSIVES
- T asks sts to get a piece of paper
- On the top they have to draw a “boy” if they are boys, and a “girl” if they are girls.
- Then they will have to write their favorite:
o 1. Animal: dog
o 2. Color: red
o 3. Toy: ball
- Once they finished, sts make a paper plane with that paper. Once finished, they throw the plane. Then,pick
up one.
- Once they pick up one, they read the info using possessives:
o His favorite animal is….
o His favorite color is….
- Sts have to guess who they are talking about.
25. MINGLE
- T prepares sets of flashcards with different questions
- T give sts the cards
- Sts get in pairs and ask and answer the questions on the card
- T says “mingle” and sts have to go to another st and ask the questions
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