English Class: Play With Us. Quick Fun Activities

Student D: Exhilarating!

Student C: Yes, that’s correct. The word I mean is «exhilarating».

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Variations: Apart from definitions, the students can also explain the chosen item in some other way. For instance, they may use phrases like «It is something that…”, «It is a place where…» or «It is a person who…»

Forfeits

Core language: Depends on the specific task as the game covers a wide range of language material

Level: Beginners – advanced

Number of students: Any

Stuff needed:A white/blackboard, the task cards from Appendix 1: Forfeits

Time: 20 minutes

People/characters involved:

– The teacher acts as the presenter/game host

– All the others are participants

Procedure: The game can be played as kind of «punishment» for mistakes made by the students in a particular exercise or can just be held for fun and pleasure. The teacher lays out the task cards face down on the teacher’s table. Then he/she walks around the classroom with a bag. Each student puts into the bag one of their personal belongings. Next, the teacher pulls the students’ things out of the bag one at a time. The owner of the item approaches the teacher’s desk, picks one of the cards, reads the task aloud and performs the task to get his/her thing back.

Forfeit tasks (see also Appendix 1):

•Describe the photo in your passport.

•Choose one of your classmates and tell us when and where you met.

•Draw a new road sign and explain what it is for.

•Read the poem (the story…) as if it was an episode from a horror film.

•Make an origami from a piece of paper. Explain what it is.

•Tell us about one of your classmates without giving his/her name. The other students guess who it is. Start your sentences with the words This person…

•Tell your desk mate why he/ she should fly to Mars.

•Tell us what you would do if you were a talking biscuit…

•Answer the questions with complete sentences:

– What’s your name?

– How old are you?

– Where do you live?

– Which school do you go to?

– What’s the date today?

•Arrange the following words in alphabetical order:

tea, teacher, tree, talk, tiger

•What are the opposites of the following adjectives: big, dry, hot, rich, old, happy, low, wrong, fat, clean?

•Form compound nouns from the following words:

– alarm, cross, life, ear, time

– table, guard, ring, word, clock

•Put the words next to the correct heading (five words for each heading):

potato, plum, apple, carrot, onion, lemon, garlic, orange, banana, peas