Hi,
A good vocab game is the Battlefield game, perhaps you know it. At school I always use a 5×10 grid. I put the first 10 letters of the alphabet on the top of the 10 coloumns and 5 numbers for the 5 rows (11-15 or 10-50) I always prepare my battleships before the lesson, I always write some of the new words in them (eg. hat, coat, boots, tie, suit.) I draw the grid on the board. At school the whole class is against me, they give a letter and a number and if there’s a battleship I say ‘hit’ and put in the letter, or if there’s nothing there, it’s a miss. It’s something they can play with each other via Skype now, if nobody is there at home.
I also like to use this sheet of animal riddles with these classes: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/animals/animal-riddles-1-easy/716
I’m going to read them out loud, I often give a list of the animals to chose from. They send their answers, then they draw the animals in their books, and now can copy the four sentences when they’ve listened to them enough.
Zsuzsi Jung
Thank you! Lots of great activities I have never tried.
One of the things I did in real-life classroom last term, which the students really took to, is ‘Individual Challenge’. For example,
–Count up to 20 and down in xxx seconds.
–Say the verse the class is working on by yourself.
–Sing or chant the list of words for the Japanese script (15~16 words at a time).
Each task is fairly simple, and students who practise well in class will be able do it after a couple of weeks. They liked the idea of ‘passing the test’ that many came to me during the break to have a go. Since there is a way for students to record their voice in the digital platform we use, I will go on with this. I suppose they can phone me too. We’ll see… Of course it may not work out the same way, and I will have to check what they can do in person once the school goes back to normal.
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Hi,
A good vocab game is the Battlefield game, perhaps you know it. At school I always use a 5×10 grid. I put the first 10 letters of the alphabet on the top of the 10 coloumns and 5 numbers for the 5 rows (11-15 or 10-50) I always prepare my battleships before the lesson, I always write some of the new words in them (eg. hat, coat, boots, tie, suit.) I draw the grid on the board. At school the whole class is against me, they give a letter and a number and if there’s a battleship I say ‘hit’ and put in the letter, or if there’s nothing there, it’s a miss. It’s something they can play with each other via Skype now, if nobody is there at home.
I also like to use this sheet of animal riddles with these classes:
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/animals/animal-riddles-1-easy/716
I’m going to read them out loud, I often give a list of the animals to chose from. They send their answers, then they draw the animals in their books, and now can copy the four sentences when they’ve listened to them enough.
Zsuzsi Jung
Thank you! Lots of great activities I have never tried.
One of the things I did in real-life classroom last term, which the students really took to, is ‘Individual Challenge’. For example,
–Count up to 20 and down in xxx seconds.
–Say the verse the class is working on by yourself.
–Sing or chant the list of words for the Japanese script (15~16 words at a time).
Each task is fairly simple, and students who practise well in class will be able do it after a couple of weeks. They liked the idea of ‘passing the test’ that many came to me during the break to have a go. Since there is a way for students to record their voice in the digital platform we use, I will go on with this. I suppose they can phone me too. We’ll see… Of course it may not work out the same way, and I will have to check what they can do in person once the school goes back to normal.
I do not have any experience teaching these grade levels but the suggestions sound interesting.