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The purpose of the blog is to post your favourite first day activities and pick up other ideas from other teachers on the blog. Hopefully, we can use this blog to keep on sharing ideas throughout the year.


Any good activities?

Any good activities?

viernes, 10 de octubre de 2008

Play station 2

Here you have the students' instructions which you need to cut up and place at each "play station":

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TABOO…

Work with a partner.
In turns take a card from the pile.
You will be defining words to each other while a member of the other team makes sure that you aren’t using any of the “forbidden words” in your definition.
If your partner guesses the word at the top of the card, you keep the card, which will count as a point; if not, you will have to put the card back at the bottom of the pile.
Continue playing until your teacher says STOP.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PICTIONARY…

In turns take a card from the pile.
On each card there is a word which you’ll be representing on a picture.
While you are drawing, all the rest of the group will have to guess what the right word is.
You CAN’T use gestures or make a noise, only DRAW!
The person who guesses the word on the card will keep it. Each card will count as a point.
Continue until your teacher says STOP.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR DO YOU?…

In turns take a card from the pile.
On each card there are two questions. Ask the first one to the whole group and, if there’s someone who gives a “Yes, I do” as an answer, ask him/her the second question.
You should try to ask some extra questions to your group, so that you keep the conversation going for at least a minute.
Continue until your teacher says STOP.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR TELL YOUR GROUP ABOUT....

1. There is a counter and a coin.
2. Put the counter on START.
3. The first player throws the coin.
4. If the coin lands on “heads” you move the counter 1 space, if it lands on
“tails” you move the counter two spaces.
5. You have to talk about the subject on the square for one minute.
6. The next player throws the coin and moves the counter forward.
7. Continue until you arrive at FINISH.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR TWENTY QUESTIONS…..

In turns take a card from the pile.
On each card there is a picture which represents a job.
The other players have to ask you YES/NO questions to find out what the job is. For example, you can ask: “Do you work in an office?”
You can ask a maximum of 20 questions.
4. Continue playing until your teacher says STOP.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR CROSSWORDS…..

Work with a partner.
Each pair has half of a crossword – A or B.
With your partner give clues to the other couple to help them fill in the words that are missing in their version of the crossword. For example, if you have the word “WEEK” in your crossword, you can say: “It’s a period of seven days.”
To refer to the squares, you should say “1 Across” or “1 Down” etc.

1 comentario:

Hugh L dijo...

Sounds great, but do you normally do this is classrooms the same size as the average Hospital St Pau classroom? I'd think the students would be on top of one another and drowning one another out?