What are you doing?
Michelle Foley
| GRADE LEVEL: | JHS 1ST year |
| SKILLS: | Listening, speaking, writing |
| TIME: | 30 minutes |
| MATERIALS: | Game cards, worksheet |
| OBJECTIVES: | Practice using the present continuous grammar point, encourage student interaction in English, facilitate participation as a class |
PROCEDURE:
1. Prepare the game cards. I downloaded pictures to illustrate the activities so that students didn’t need to rely on translation to understand the action. Examples of activities are: playing hockey, reading a book, riding my bike, eating, studying, and helping my mother.
2. Make the worksheet. I had one column with the activities listed, and a second column with “Who is doing the activity?” as the heading. This column is for students’ signatures once they find someone doing an activity.
3. Play! Students walk freely around the room, taking turns asking “What are you doing?” to one another. Once they find someone who is doing an activity for which they do not have a signature, the student with that activity signs their partner’s worksheet. After both students have asked what the other is doing, they exchange cards and find a new partner.
4. The goal is to have a signature for all the activities listed on the worksheet.
NOTES:
I designed this game so that some cards were more common than others. For example, there were only two “playing hockey” cards, but seven “studying” cards. This makes the game last longer as students strive to acquire all seven activities. Further, because the cards are always changing hands, students can’t look on someone else’s sheet to see who has an activity they’re missing in order to acquire that activity’s signature.
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