Print the cards included or make your own! Some of the cards are Miyagi specific and may not work for your school. I printed the cards off and glued them to construction paper with one side being the image and the other being the English discription.
HOW IT WORKS:
The game works pretty much the same way as the original "Cooking Hello Kitty" game, just some small changes make it work a little nicer for me.
Break the students up into groups of 4. Hand out one worksheet to each group. Pick two cards. One character card and one verb. Have one student from each group come up and look at the cards (image side). Everyone gets the same set of cards. Emphasize that these are secret cards. Only the students drawing can know what they are. They cannot take them back to their desk. The student that came up to look at the cards also can`t talk. They are only allowed to draw.
I only show the students the image side at first. The students will slowly start to go back to their groups once they think they`ve understood it. If there are any stragglers that are really not understanding what the verb might be, then I will show them the English side.
They return to their groups and draw the image while their partners try to guess what they are doing. Once the group thinks they`ve got the correct answer, they create a sentence underneath their drawing filling in the "I am" section (eg. I am teaching Totoro) and bring the worksheet to either the ALT or the JTE. If they are correct, they get a sticker and a new set of cards.
I only give the students a couple of minutes to draw and create a sentence. 1-2 minutes. It keeps the students from creating masterpieces and the game going quickly. If you want to make the game last longer, there is an extra line for creating their own sentence about the image (eg. I think it`s fun to teach Totoro), but I think the students have more fun trying to draw zany pictures and guess when the image is.
Once time is up, I write the answer on the board. I emphasize to the students that there is more than one correct answer. For example: If a group got Godzilla and Sumo Fighting. The desired sentence is "I am sumo fighting Godzilla" if a student came back with "I am losing my life" I would give them a sticker since they clearly understood what the image was and used present continuous.
HOW TO MODEL
Model the activity with your JTE or HRT. I do this by drawing a quick image of the worksheet on the blackboard and giving the JTE two cards that I have pre-picked (Totoro and Teaching) so that they are easy for me to draw quickly. The students also get to see the cards. I quickly draw an image of someone teaching Totoro. My JTE will say, "I think you are teaching Totoro." and I write the sentence down (I am teaching Totoro), then I ask "Is this okay?" My JTE says yes and I draw a star on the board telling the students that if they get it right, they get a sticker.
The kids seem to have a really good time with this activity and ask to play it again in following classes, it does get a bit noisy but mostly Ive found its a lot of fun.
I see the worksheet but I don't think you've attached the cards?
Sorry about that! They`re up now! I hope you find them useful.