ESSON
RECIPESESSON
RECIPES
1. CONJUGATION OF IRREGULAR VERBS
(Suitable for use with lessons on Present Perfect Tense, Present Perfect
Continuous Tense and
Passive Voice. Also gives practice in making polite requests and using
common courtesies like
Thank you, Sorry)
Ingredients:
32
cards per group of 4 students (Ordinary playing card size, cut from manila
cards)
List of irregular verbs
Method:
1. Familiarise yourself with the Happy Family game.
2. On each
set of 4 cards write the infinitive, past tense, past participle and -ing
forms of an irregular verb in
this way
: Mr Infinitive, Mrs Past Tense, Master Past Participle and Miss -ing.
For example, Mr Break, Mrs
Broke,
Master Broken and Miss Breaking.
3. Repeat
step 2 until you have enough cards for your class. Each group will get
different sets of verbs.
They can
exchange cards once a game is over.
4. In groups of 4 (ideally), students collect complete families as in the Happy Family game.
5. Students
must use polite requests like "May I have Mr/Mrs/Master/Miss ....?" and
must say thank you
after receiving
the card. Otherwise the card can be taken back and the student loses his
turn.
6. A student also loses his turn if the verb form is wrongly used eg "May I have Master Broke?"
7. The game is over when all the verb families have been grouped.
8. The winner is the one who has collected the most number of families.
2. CREATIVE WRITING - A POEM?
Ingredients:
10 - 12 headlines
from the newspapers
manila cards
Kenny G cassette tape or any other instrumental tapes
Method:
1.
Teacher pastes all headlines on the manila card ( be creative !) and decorate
the background - flowers ,
stars , etc.
2. Students choose at least 5 of the headlines and write a poem using the headlines.
3. Teacher plays the tape when the students are writing.
P/S When this was tried out the first time , the headlines were collected
from the SEA Games 97 news ,
but most of the students wrote about their mother ! Here's the set
of headlines given to them:
Jumping for Joy
Glory Girls
Supermum's Simply Smashing
Golden Oldies
History in the Making
Two down , two to go
Shooting Stars
Coming Home
Shining Light in the Pool
All the Right Moves
To mum , with love
Excuses , excuses
3.
FREE WRITING - FRIENDLY LETTER, STORY DIALOGUE, ADVERTISEMENT, POEM, ETC
Ingredients:
1
picture (from the newspapers , magazine , etc ) per student
1 manila card / mahjung paper per group
Method :
1. Students are to bring their picture to class , of course.
2. Students get into groups of 3 and show each other their picture.
3. Students then put their pictures together and write a story, letter,
etc. based on the pictures that they
have. Students are to be imaginative/creative.
4. Once ready students can display their product (pictures as well
as writing)
on the manila card/mahjong paper and put it up around the class.
4.
GRAMMAR CHECKERS (Subject-Verb Agreement)
Ingredients:
1
checkers board per pair of students (enlarge a normal checkers board and
paste on manila card)
12 nouns - 6 singular and 6 plural - written separately on pieces of
cardboard the size of a square on the checkers board
12 verbs - 6 singular and 6 plural - written separately like the nouns
Method:
1. The game follows the rules of checkers.
2. One student takes the nouns and the other the verbs.
3. If a subject meets a verb that it agrees with (or vice versa)
the person who makes that move can
"eat" his/her opponent's chip.
4. A chip that succeeds in getting to the opponent's baseline
becomes "king" and is allowed to move in
the same way as in checkers.
5. SECRET WORD (Vocabulary/Spelling)
Ingredients:
None
Method:
1. Put students in groups of 5 or 6.
2. Each group comes up with a word that has as many letters
as the number of group members. For example,
a five-member group can choose the word "BREAD". This is their secret word.
3. Each member of the group is assigned a letter of the word
and finds a way to act out another word that
begins with the letter that he/she has been assigned. For example,
the first member of the group takes
the letter "B" and thinks about how to act out the word "Big".
The second student, the one who has
been assigned the letter "R" can act out the word "Roll", and so on.
4. After all the groups are ready with their secret words,
one group at a time comes to the front of the class
stand in the correct order, that is, according to how the word is spelled.
The members of the group then
take turns to present the words they have prepared.. For example, the first
student can draw a large,
imaginary circle with his/her hands to illustrate "Big". The rest of the
class guess what he/she is trying
to show and use the first letter of that word as their first clue to the
group's secret word.
5. It may be necessary for the group presenting their secret
word to repeat their actions a few times in
order for the rest of the class to be able to guess the secret word.
6. WORD BUILDING (Vocabulary/Spelling)
Ingredients
Small
squares of cardboard on which are written letters of the alphabet. For
each group of 4 - 6 students
you will need:
25 of E
12 each of A, I, and O
8 of U
6 of H, S and T
5 of C and R
4 of B, D, F, G, L, M, N, P AND W
2 of J, K, Q, V, X, Y and Z
Method
1.
Students sit in a circle with the pile of letters, face down, in front
of one of the students. This student
will be in charge of turning the letters over.
2. The student in charge turns the letters over one at
a time. Any student, including the leader, who
spots a combination of letters that will make a word calls out the word,
collects the relevant letters
and builds the word in front of him. It should be stipulated that the word
to be built must have
a minimum of 4 letters.
3.
After the letters have all been opened and no more words can be formed,
the group members
can then look at each other's words and "claim" them if they can
make new words from them. For
example, if a student has built the word "VOTE", any other group
member who can use these same
letters to make a different word can "claim" it as his own ( a possible
new word is "VETO"). Also,
a student is allowed to build a new word by adding any letter from
the unused letters to another
student's word. For example, Student A has the word "DRAW" and if there
is an "N" among the
unused pile of letters, Student B can make a new word "DRAWN" and "claim"
that word as his/hers.
4.
The winner is the one who has the most number of words arranged in front
of him when the game ends.