Objective:
To get the students practicing this boring grammar point in a fun way AND to provide some context as to when you might use this grammar in real life.
Set up:
Print the "Where's Wally?" pictures double sided - one for each pair of students.
Print one worksheet for each student.
Maybe see if your school has a mini projector you can use to show the "Where's Wally?" pictures on the TV.
Method:
Put students in pairs and give out the pictures and worksheets.
Ask if they know "Where's Wally?". There is a Japanese version they might be familiar with.
PART 1: Show students the example on the worksheet. Explain they have to listen and find the character in the picture. They are in pairs, so it will be a KARUTA style competition.
I do 2 sentences for picture A (easy side) and 2 for picture B (difficult side).
Picture A:
- 'That girl listening to music has a yellow jacket.'
- 'That boy wearing glasses has a volcano.'
Picture B:
- 'That woman swimming in the pool is a mermaid.'
- 'That man walking his dog has an orange jacket.'
They usually tell me it's too easy, so I challenge them to part 2!
PART 2: It's the students turn to write their own senences. They can choose either A or B, and they can work together if they like.
PART 3: Ask for volunteers to share a sentence (you can bribe them with stickers).
When a student shares, everyone has to look for their character.
Some students come up with very imaginative character descriptions!
That's it!
I have a "Where's Wally?" book from home that I like to show the students. After class they have fun challenging eachother to find him :)
The timings are really up to you. Some students struggle with the writing, so maybe give them more time for PART 2.
There's also an October version. PDF and Word Doc versions too.
((For formatting, I use: 'Antique Olive Compact' or 'Segoe UI Black' for titles, and 'UD デジタル UK-R' for body text.))
Thanks for this idea! It looks really good. This is my least favourite point to practice and I know that when anything karuta style is involved my third years go insane so I am excited to play this with them!!
This is a great idea! We just did this grammar so I'm definitely gonna try this out for next year. Side note, I had no idea Waldo was called Wally outside of North America haha
@Annamoursounidis Thank you! I also hate this grammar, but my JTE and students really liked this activity.
@meatydog Yes, it seems that Wally has a different name in lots of countries. In France he's called Charlie, Germany calls him Walter, and Sweden calls him Hugo!