And everybody go to sleep!
Rebecca Ladhams
| GRADE LEVEL: | JHS All |
| SKILLS: | reading, writing |
| TIME: | Thirty minutes |
| MATERIALS: | A list of sentences from that day’s or a previous day’s lesson |
| OBJECTIVES: | To practice sentence structure through reading and writing |
PROCEDURE:
1. Split the class into teams. I normally make horizontal rows into teams. Number the team members one to six – or whatever works according to the desk plan in your classroom (If some teams have less students give one student two numbers).
2. Tell everyone to go to sleep. Write a section of a sentence on the board. Ask all the number ones to wake up and silently write down what’s on the board. Tell them to go back to sleep. Write another section of the sentence on the board and ask number twos to wake up, and so on until you have given a section of the sentence to each student.
3. You will want to split your sentences up into the right number of sections before class and should not hand out the sections in order.
4. Tell everyone to wake up. This is the student’s cue to get together and try and work out what the sentence is. The first team to bring you the sentence written down correctly wins. You can then ask them to read this out for the rest of the class.
NOTES:
This game worked really well for JHS 2 when they were learning ‘I will see my friend, when I go to Sendai.’ and ‘When I am hungry I will eat.’ sentence structures.
Teachers love this game because the class is so quiet and the students really like it too.
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