What's the Time Bingo

In this game, the students have drawings of clock showing various times.

Grammar points
Telling the time (It's one o'clock etc.)


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teacher's board | bingo cards | Teacher's notes

[source: Grammar Games and Activities for Teachers by Peter Watcyn-Jones]
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Spelling words 'Spelling Lotto'

TYPE OF ACTIVITY
small group; matching

FUNCTION PRACTICED
spelling words

STRUCTURES
none

TOPIC AREA
letters of the alphabet

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
names of the letters



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lotto boards | word cards | Teacher's notes

[source: Beginner's Communication Games by Jill Hadfield]
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Greetings and Introductions 'Doppelganger'

TYPE OF ACTIVITY
whole class; matching

FUNCTION PRACTICED
greetings and introductions

STRUCTURES
Hello.
My name is ... .
What's your name?

TOPIC AREA
names

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
no extra vocabulary needed


MATERIALS AND PREPARATION

Name cards | Teacher's notes

Copy the NAME CARDS. Cut up as many as you need for your class, making sure each name appears twice.


HOW TO USE THE GAME

Give out the name cards.

Tell the students that somewhere in the class is someone with the same name.

The object of the game is to find someone with the same name.

To do this they will have to stand up and move around the class, introducing themselves and asking for names until they find someone with the same name.

When they have found that person they can sit down.

DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrate how to do this by taking a matching pair of name cards. Give one to a student and keep one yourself. Ask two or three other students for their names and make a pantomime of looking at your own card and shaking your head. Then 'find' the student with the same name and make a pantomime of looking delighted. Show the class the names are the same.

CLASSROOM LANGUAGE

Here's the card.
This is a name.
It's your name.

This is your name. (give a card to a student)
And this is my name. (show the class your card)
I must find the same name.
Hello. My name's ... . What's your name?
No. It's not the same. (shake your head and look disappointed; show the two cards to the class)
Ah look! It's the same! (look excited and show the two cards to the class)
Now we can sit down! (demonstrate)
OK, everybody, stand up.
Find the same name.
When you find the same name, sit down.

VARIATION

If you have a new class and they don't yet know each others' (real) names, play this variation.

Ask everyone to write their names on a piece of paper.

Collect these up.

Redistribute the names, making sure no one gets their own name.

The object of the game is to find the person whose name is on the piece of paper.

To do this, they will have to stand up and go round the class, telling everyone their (real) name and asking for names:
'Hello, my name's ... . What's your name?'

When they find the person whose name is on their paper, they should give them the paper.

When they have given away their paper and got their own name back, they should sit down. [source: Beginner's Communication Games by Jill Hadfield]
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