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HEY EVERYONE,

I HAVE FINALLY MOVED ALL MY POSTS ON WORDPRESS. THIS IS MY NEW BLOG 

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I have transferred THERE all the good stuff. More substantial post are coming up soon and if you’d like to check them out you can follow the blog😊😊😀

Caterpillar sentences

CATERPILLAR SENTENCES 

I was thinking of a way to get my students (9-10 years old) to  formulate their own sentences and at same time have fun.  An then I came up with the idea of the caterpillar sentences and they absolutely loved it. 😀😘😎

How to use this idea: Get students to cut down and then stick the caterpillar in their notebooks. Then, get them to write a word and a sentence using the words from the caterpillar (as seen in the example).

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Best Friend's Challenge

 BEST FRIEND'S CHALLENGE

I came up with the idea of using the 'Best Friends Challenge' (as seen in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallow) with my teens as they are all friends and they hang out together. I have to say that it worked really well and we had quite a lot of fun too 😁😃💛So here's how it works:

How to play: write the following questions in different cards and cut them down. Place them in a box. Student A draws a questions and tries to guess how Student B would have answered the question. Student A and B write the answer down and show their answers with the count of 3. If the answers match they get a point. 

1.   What’s my favourite colour?

2.   What are the place I would like to visit?

3.   What’s my favourite food?

4.   What’s the food I hate the most?

5.   How many minutes do I take to get dressed?

6.   What are the things I carry with me all the time?

7.   What my favourite subject at school?

8.   What my worst subject at school?

9.   What annoys me the most?

10. What’s my favourite sport?

11. What’s the craziest thing I have done?

12. What do I usually have for breakfast?

13. What my favourite song at the moment?

14. Where am I going on holiday this Christmas/Easter?

15. What’s my favourite TV show?

16. What do I do in my free time?

17. What’s my favourite kind of sweet?

18. Which is my favourite type of film? Horror, Comedy, Action etc..

19. If I could meet anyone, who would it be?

20. What would I do if I won the lottery?

21. What's my favourite kind of sandwich?

22. What's my favourite hobby?

23. How do I spend my free time? 

After finishing the game we worked on fluency. So I asked my students to answer the questions, expand their answers and I recorded them.  In that way, I had the chance to listen to the audio again and correct some basic mistakes.  To avoid making them feel embarrassed I gave them the corrections in handouts and we practised again. This activity is great for students preparing for exams. 
   You can also get your students to come up with more questions and play the game again :)
   
   Click here to download the handout with the questions. 

Hope you like it, let me know how it goes :)