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Grammar Auction
Age/Level: Elementary and above Time: 25 minutes Players: Small teams

Preparation: Prepare 15 sentences containing some grammar mistakes

Aim: To revise a specific grammar area or general grammar

Here is a useful game for revising grammar points.

Before class, prepare 15 sentences containing grammar that your students are currently
studying or areas of grammar that your students are having problems with. Some of the
sentences should be correct and some incorrect.

Procedure

Write or display the sentences on the board.

Explain that you are going to auction the sentences and that an auction is when you sell
something to the person who offers the most money.

Divide the students into small teams.

Explain that each team has $100 and that they need to buy the correct sentences.

In their teams, students discuss which sentences they think are correct and decide which
ones to buy and how much they are prepared to pay for each sentence.

Take the role of an auctioneer and sell each sentence to the team who offers the most
money.

Keep track of how much each team has spent on the board.

Tell the students that they shouldn’t spend too much money too soon as once they have
spent all their money they can’t buy any more sentences.

When all of the sentences have been sold, go through them one at a time, revealing which
are correct and which are incorrect.

Ask the students to correct the mistakes.

The team who bought the most correct sentences is the winner. If it’s a draw, then the team
with the most money left wins.

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