Activity

Gesture Game

Use gestures in the form of a competitive game to teach students target phrases. Student level - Elementary

Target phrases - How are you? - I am happy/sad/hungry/tired/sleepy

Process -

  1. Students stand up
  2. Everyone says twice - "How are you?"
  3. Everyone says - "I am _______"
  4. Right after saying "I am", everyone shows a random gesture of one of the emotions above. The students whose gestures match with that of the ALT is/are out of the game.
  5. Remove options to make it more competitive.

＊Set images for the emotions or actions help the students more in retaining gesture memory which in turn catalyses the progress of the game.

NB - I saw this game played by one of my JTEs.

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Submitted by Zahin May 24, 2022 Estimated time: 10 minutes or more

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  1. jiggswalsh January 10, 2024

    I did this today with my first graders New Horizons Let's Talk 2 p74 ("What's wrong?", "I have a headache.") and it went brilliantly! Thanks very much!

  2. Chinny May 1, 2024

    I did this with my third grader the other way around. I enjoyed it as much as they did.

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