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Activities for Children

Quiz Competition .................................................................................................................................... 3

Think in English ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Dumb Charades ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Name, Place, Animal, Thing .................................................................................................................... 3

Word Building - 1 .................................................................................................................................... 3

Word Building - 2 .................................................................................................................................... 3

Word Building - 3 .................................................................................................................................... 3

Be the teacher ......................................................................................................................................... 4

Passing the Parcel Game ......................................................................................................................... 4

Kannada Expert ....................................................................................................................................... 4

Role Play .................................................................................................................................................. 4

One Word Expert .................................................................................................................................... 4

Form a Sentence by seeing the pictures ................................................................................................. 5

Hangman ................................................................................................................................................. 5

Scrabble................................................................................................................................................... 5

Odd one out ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Create a Story.......................................................................................................................................... 6

Picture Story ............................................................................................................................................ 6

I Like, I don’t Like! ................................................................................................................................... 6

Pass the Secret! ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Spell the word! ........................................................................................................................................ 6

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Quiz Competition

Engage students by always keeping quizzes between the rows, dividing them into teams and

then try to teach them a concept via fill the blanks and stuff. (shared by volunteer Gaurav)

Think in English

The goal here is to help students think quickly in English. Divide them into 2 groups, and

they stand in a line. Ask a simple question, and the person who answers first gets to sit and

the other one goes at the back of the line. The team which sits first wins. Questions can vary

on the basis of the English level of the students. (shared by volunteer Gaurav)

Dumb Charades

For verbs, encourage the students to play dumb charades with the verb and guessing in

English. (shared by volunteer Gaurav)

Name, Place, Animal, Thing

Ask the students to pick a letter and write down “Name, place, animal, thing” starting with that

alphabet. Then, ask a student to build a sentence using one or more of the words. (shared

by volunteer Chandan)

Word Building - 1

Word building... I am sure all of us would have played this, but here I made them build

words only out of a particular part of speech, ex: verbs (shared by volunteer Chandan)

Word Building - 2

Give a long word to the students like “Constantinople.” Ask the students to make words

using the letters in the long word. (shared by volunteer Chandan)

Word Building - 3 The volunteer will write on the board random alphabets and ask the children to come up with as

many words as possible in a given amount of time. (shared by volunteer Anuj)

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Be the teacher

Ask a student to come to the front and engage the class either in word building or sentence

formation. This increases the student’s confidence. (shared by volunteer Chandan)

Passing the Parcel Game

Have the students sit around. As one student is clapping, they pass the “parcel” (this can be

a pen/pencil/book, etc) and when the student stops clapping, the person with the “parcel”

has to answer a particular question or perform said activity.

Kannada Expert

Use translation of English into Kannada to build comprehension of English. When you read

out a story or a student narrates a story of his own, have another student or group of

students translate in Kannada.

Role Play

For a given situation/setting, ask 2-3 students to come to the front and act it out. For

example, at the bus stand, one student can be a passenger, one student can be a driver and

they can have a short conversation.

One Word Expert The goal here is to help children build vocabulary.

Student 1 thinks of a word in her mind. She has to give clues to another student with just 1 word.

Student 2 can guess using only 1 word. This goes on till Student 2 says the right word.

For example: Student 1 has chosen the word Umbrella Student 1 says rain Student 2 says flood Student 1 says protection Student 2 says raincoat Student 1 says another Student 2 guesses umbrella

This basically will let the student to think in one direction and guess using as many English words as

possible. (shared by volunteer Shweta)

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Form a Sentence by seeing the pictures

Place a few pictures on board which forms a meaningful and simple sentence and ask

students to form a sentence (shared by volunteer Santhosh)

http://www.english-online.org.uk/beginners/beg1fun2.htm

Hangman

Tell a sentence. And ask students to find one word for the sentence.

Play hangman with the students

Let the student guess the word by the hint of the given sentence.

(shared by volunteer Santhosh)

Scrabble

A to Z of alphabets with each alphabet having points(rank, stars etc.,)

Like A, C, E, G = 1 or (1 Star)

B, D=2 or (2 Star),

F, H =4 or (4 Star) etc.,

Divide the students into group of 5 – 8

Give them set of alphabets and ask them to make a word out of it.

Whichever group makes a alphabet with highest number of points will score (shared by

volunteer Santhosh)

http://www.funenglishgames.com/activities/scrabble.html

Odd one out

For ex- Mother, Sister, Friend, Brother

Boy, Female, Women, Girl (shared by volunteer Santhosh)

http://www.funenglishgames.com/quizzes/oddoneout.html

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Create a Story

Give the students a situation or a location like Railway Station or Wedding. Divide the class

into groups and ask them to come up with a short story in that setting in 10 sentences. It

will be great for their creative, learning and speaking skills. (shared by volunteer Anuj)

Picture Story

Children can be given photocopies of any RANDOM picture and, then, be asked to describe

it in their own words. It will be good for their describing and listening skills. (shared by

volunteer Anuj)

I Like, I don’t Like!

Asking the children to give their opinion about anything from their lives such as an ice-

cream , a fair, food , their school ,teacher etc. The object should be something all the kids in

the class could relate to so that they can give their opinion about it. Ask the student to share

2 sentences about what they like and 2 sentences about what they don’t like. (shared by

volunteer Anuj)

Pass the Secret!

In "Pass the secret game" children will sit in 4 different lines. The volunteer will whisper a

"secret" to the first child in a column. The child will then pass on the secret to the next child

in his/her column and so on till it reaches the end. The class will then discover how close to

the original the "secret" is. (shared by volunteer Anuj)

Spell the word!

This can be done with the whole class or in two teams. The first player on team one is given

a word to spell orally. The volunteer writes the letters on the board as they are spelled out

loud. If correct, the team gets a point. If you do a class competition, line the students up and

give them words one by one. When they make a mistake they must sit down. The last

student standing is the winner. (shared by volunteer Anuj)