DISCUSSION What English activities do we usually do in classes?

中小学英语活动研究

长沙教育学院肖爱莉

DISCUSSION

What English activities do we usually do in classes?

I. Sound Games

1.Tongue twisters 1) Dick kicks sticky bricks.

2) She sells seashells by the seashore,

The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.

So if she sells seashells by the seashore,

Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

2. Chants

“This” is used for one thing near,

“That” means one thing over there;

“These” and “those” mean two or more;

“Those” are far and “these” are near.

3. Sound recognition

boy ball

1) Use two different colours (or something else) to stand for two different sounds.

I see a ship /sheep.

The boy/ ball is under the tree.

2) Same or different? Ask students to tell whether the sounds are the same or different.

live/leave thin/thing sing/thing sit/seat this/these head/hand hear/hill slow/snow let/late bag/beg then/than mouse/mouth Ways to tell: flags, hands, stand to the left/right, clap hands etc.

4. Sound relay.

1) Take kite teacher

alarm man nice speak

2) Take: name, lake, may, game

way, gate, etc.

5. Find friends. (Homonyms)

Words with the same sound.

I/eye hear/here write/right

sea/see pair/pear new/knew

by/buy four/for wear/where

two/too no/know meat/meet

our/hour week/weak there/their

II. Letter Games1. Find out letters in the pictures.

2. Letters relay. S t u v W x y z

3. Find (a) friend(s).1) Letters with the same vowels.

/e/ F L M N S X Z

2) Capital and small letters.

4. Find the neighbours. E F G

5. Bingo (Cross out “G”.)

G K MW U PY S R

6. Next/ Buzz D E F (next) H I J (next) L M N …

7. Play cards

8. Letter riddles1) Which letter sounds like a word?

Which letter sounds like an animal?

Which letter looks like a door?

2) Do body signs and guess the letters.

3) Guess what letter it is according the

mouth movement.

9. Add one stroke to form another

letter.

C F N O V

c n o v p

10. London Bridge

Using the letters to form a bridge and let the kids to pass under it. If one kid is caught, he/she must say the two letters.

II. Number Games

1. Bingo ( Cross out 48.)

7 10 17

24 36 96 3 48

2. Next three, four, (next) six, seven, (next)

3. Number relay

4. Find a friend1) -teen -ty

2) one / first

5. Find the neighbours.

6. Put numbers in different pictures.

square triangle round

fourten

five

7. Play cards.

8. Guess how many/much …?

9. Repetition

10. Give the opposite number.

11. Guess the Chinese idioms.

Three Three Three

On eThree two

12. Fill in numbers in Chinese

idioms.

___分为 ___

___湖 ___海

___上 ___下

___神无主

III. Word Games 1. Word relay.

pen name egg great

2. Find a friend.1) Words with the same sound: eye/I be/bee for/four here/hear week/weak meat/meet our/hour

2) Words with the same meaning:

sure/certain little/small big/large

3) Compound words:

bedroom/classroom/dining-room

classmate/roommate/workmate

4) Words with the same suffix/prefix

enlarge/enrich/shorten/widen/sharpen

3. Find the enemy.

1) heavy/light up/down in/out

2) Kill two birds with one stone.

old short

( easy cheap thin full )

youngnew

longtall

4. Change a letter to make a new word.

father: fat/the/he/her/at/far/hat/eat/tea

1) in: if/it/is/on/inn/kin/ink/an/en

2) word: world/work/worm/worn

3) bed—bee—see—sea—seat—eat

5. Write out new words with the letters in the given word.

6. Write out related words.

on

time

bus

holiday

table

foot

bike

city

eye

7. Word building.

H E H E

H E R B E E

H E R E T R E E

H O U S E T H E R E

H U N G R Y P E O P L E

8. Find out the missing word.1) slide show2) word cards

9.Cross word Across

1) put on

2) a game

Down

1) do sth.

2) very few

W E A R

O A

R R

K I T E

11. Letter chain

MEATHEREDOPENOWHAT

IV. Guessing Games

1. Guess pictures

1)

2) Cover the picture, then discover it

part by part.

2. Guess words.1) I have a word in my mind.

Could you guess what it is?

Is it about food/clothes/…?

How many letters are there in it?

Is there “A” in it?

2) I’m not in the rain. I’m in the water.

“ If ” is between us.

3) The 1st letter is in“tree”, but not in “free”;

The 2nd letter is in “he”, but not in “him”;

The 3rd letter is in “hand”, but not in “lend”.

What word it is?

4) Can you change a lady into a man?

Can you change ice into a kind of food?

3. Guess riddles.

1) Description

A characteristics: shape/size/color

B functions: We wear it.

C classification: It’s an animal.

2) Inference

A. Five brothers have a sister each. How

many children are there in the family?

B. Two mothers and two daughters share 3

apples. Each should get one. Is it possible?

C. Who is your father’s grandfather’s son?

3) Homonyms

A. What fruit is never found single?

B. Who is closer to you, your mom or dad?

A. A pear. (pair) B. Father (farther)

V. Structure Games

1. Expand a sentence.

2. Sam says….

3. Do the opposite.

4. Pass a message.

5. Listen and draw.

6. Give a response to what you

hear.

I have a book. You read it.

He has water. He drinks it.

I turned on the radio.

You listened to music.

He took out his exercise book.

He did his home work.

7. When I see…, I think of ….

8. Who is the fastest?

A. Give me a word of food.

B. Give me an answer.

9. Make up a story. A. Change a dialogue into a story.

B. Each give one sentence.

C. Guess the ending of the story.

10. Black magic

Answer questions without using “Yes” or “No”.

11. Catch it if you can.

Use a ball or anything and pass it around, when doing this, give any word, the next should give a sentence.

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