games you can using in class
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The Blanket Game
Category: Speaking
Group size: From 2 players. Small & large class variants
Level: Beginners to intermediate
Materials: A sheet or blanket and flashcards
Age: 4 to 12
Pace: Calm down, & lively version
This game is to be played once your students are familiar
with the vocabulary and sentences that you wish to
practise. This is a speaking practise game, or a revision
game.
1. HOW TO PLAY
First create a barrier for someone to hide behind. You can
do this by setting up a clothesline and pegging a blanket
on it, or by having two students hold the blanket up, or by
draping the blanket over a couple of chairs so some one
could sit behind it and not be seen. Now you have your
barrier, here is an example of how to play this using
clothing vocabulary: A class member hides behind the
blanket and puts on a selection of clothes, or props, such
as a hat, belt, tie or scarf. The class asks in unison,
"What are you wearing?" The person behind the blanket
replies, "I'm wearing a hat", or "I'm wearing a red hat".
Each class member decides whether he or she thinks this is
true or false.
Whoever thinks it is true stands up. Whoever thinks it is
false sits down. Continue, and then swap over the person
behind the blanket. Only allow that person one minute to
dress up, to ensure that the class do not get bored
waiting. You can have the class count up to thirty, or say
the alphabet while the person puts their prop on. If you
do not want to use the sitting and standing method, then
each class member can make 2 cards each, with "True" and
"False" on them which they can hold up. These can be a
tick and a cross for four to five year olds.
If there are only 2 of you - you and your student - then
you can take it in turns to go behind the blanket. You can
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