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Vocabulary game: Jobs
Source: Elementary Vocabulary Games by Jill Hadfield
TOPIC AREA
jobs
VOCABULARY FOCUSarchitect, artist, builder, bus driver, businessman, car mechanic, chef, dentist, doctor, engineer, factory worker, farmer, firefighter, hairdresser, journalist, nurse, pilot, police officer, postman, scientist, secretary, shop assistant, student, teacher (or a selection from these as appropriate for your class)
EXTRA VOCABULARY
family members
STRUCTURES
be. What's your job?/What do you do? What's your name?
I'm/He's/She's a ...
MATERIALS AND PREPARATION
Download material: job picture cards and job name cardsGame 1 Copy and cut up the picture cards. Remember to copy on both sides. You will need one set for each pair of students in your class.
Game 2 No materials.Game 3 From the picture card sheets, choose as many jobs as there are students in your class (e.g. if you have twelve students, choose twelve jobs. (You do not need to copy the words in the reverse side this time.) Cut the first sheet up into individual job cards - one for each student in the class. Cut the remaining four copies up into (vertical) strips of four jobs so that each student will have a strip of four job pictures. (The aim is for each student to have one individual job cards plus a strip of four pictures.)Note: If you don’t feel your class need to learn all the jobs, simply select those you feel appropriate for the class. For game 3, if you have taught fewer jobs in Game 1 than the number of students in your class, just play the game in two groups.
HOW TO USE THE GAMES
Game 1 Memorizing - pairwork sorting and matching game- Divide the students into pairs.
- Give each pair of students a set of job pictures with the name of jobs on the back.
- They should spread the cards out on the table with the pictures uppermost
- They should take it in turns to pick up a picture card and try to remember the name of the job. They can check if they are right by turning the card over. If they are right, they can keep the card. If not, they should replace it.
- The object of the game is to collect as many cards as possible.
- When they have finished, they can spread the cards out with the names uppermost, and work together to divide them into two groups; people who work inside and people who work outside. Again, the can check by looking at the pictures on the back.
- Students can also sort cards in the same way into 'people who wear uniforms' and 'people who don't wear uniforms'.
Game 2 Personalising - small group discussion- Put up the following sentence frame:
My father is a/an ....
My mother is a/an ....
My sister is a/an ....
My brother is a/an ....
My husband is a/an ....
My wife is a/an...
My aunt is a/an...
My uncle is a/an...
My son is a/an...
My daughter is a/an...
Choose the family members to suit the ages of the students in your class. - Ask the students to write down as many jobs in their family as they can think of in five minutes.
- Then divide the class into small groups as evenly as possible and ask them to share their information.
- Finally, ask them to total up the number of jobs in their group families and to give you a group total. Which group has the largest number of jobs?
Game 3 Communicating - whole class search game (Jobsearch)- Give every student in the class a job picture card. Tell them to imagine this is their job.
- Then give everyone a strip of four job pictures. Tell them that these are jobs done by people in the class.
- The object of the game is to find out which students do the jobs in the four pictures.
- To do this, they will have to stand up and move around the class asking everyone 'What do you do?' until they find the four people who have the jobs in the strip of pictures they have been given.
- Finally, ask the students to get into groups of three or four and share their information. Have they got enough information to match a job with every student in the class? Which group can match the most names with jobs?
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Vocabulary game: Countries and Nationalities
Source: Elementary Vocabulary Games by Jill Hadfield
TOPIC AREA
countries and nationalities
VOCABULARY FOCUSAmerica, American; Australia, Australian; China, Chinese; Britain, British; France, French; Greece, Greek; Holland, Dutch; India, Indian; Italy, Italian; Mexico, Mexican; Russia, Russian; Spain, Spanish ( if you want to teach other countries, you can make additional cards on the models given)
STRUCTURES
He’s/ She’s / I’m … What’s your name? Where are you from? I’m from …
plus: I’ve been to…, I want to go to … (for recognition only; can be explained at the time)
MATERIALS AND PREPARATION
Download material: country cards and people cardsGame 1 Copy and cut up the country cards and the people cards. Don’t forget to copy the country cards on both sides. You will need one set for each pair of students.
Game 2 No materials. (You might like to write up 'I’VE BEEN TO' and 'I WANT TO GO TO' as two column headings on the board.)Game 3 Copy the country cards sheet (picture side only), but do not cut it up. Make one copy for every student. Copy enough people cards for every students to have one each (of the appropriate sex if possible).Note: If you don’t want your class to learn all the countries and nationalities on the cards, simply select those you feel appropriate. If you want additional countries and nationalities, make extra cards yourself on the same model.
HOW TO USE THE GAMES
Game 1 Memorizing - pairwork matching- Divide the class into pairs.
- Give each pair a set of (cut up) country cards and a set of (cut up) people cards.
- They should use the country cards first.
- They should spread the cards out, picture-side up, so that they can see all of them.
- They should then take turns to pick a card up and name the country. They can check their answer by looking on the back. If they are right, they can keep the card. If not, they must put it back.
- The object of this part of the game is to collect cards by naming the countries correctly.
- The player who has collected most cards at the end is the winner.
- Then the country cards should be spread out again, and the people cards should be placed in a pile face down.
- They should take it in turns to turn up a card from the people pile and match it with the corresponding country card, saying 'He's Australian' or 'She's Italian' etc.
- They can check by turning the country card over and reading the back. If they are right, they can keep the card. If not, they should put it at the bottom of the pile.
- The object of this part of the game is to collect cards by naming the nationality correctly.
- The player with most cards at the end is the winner
Game 2 Personalising - pairwork discussion- Put up headings for two lists on the board: 'I'VE BEEN TO' and 'I WANT TO GO TO'. Explain briefly what these mean.
- Ask the students to write lists of countries under these two headings. When they have finished, join them up with a partner and ask them to tell each other about their lists.
Game 3 Communicating - whole class search game (missing person)- Give every student in the class a copy of the page of country cards (not cut up) and one of the people cards.
- Ask them to imagine they are the person on the card they have been given. They should write their name on the country sheet by the country they come from.
- The object of the game is to find out who everyone in the class is, and where they are from, and to fill in the country sheet with the names.
- To do this, students will need to move around the class, asking 'What's your name?' and 'Where are you from?' and filling in names in the appropriate countries.
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Vocabulary game: Family Members
Source: Elementary Vocabulary Games by Jill Hadfield
TOPIC AREA
Family members
VOCABULARY FOCUSaunt, brother, cousin, daughter, father, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, husband, mother, nephew, niece, sister, son, uncle, wife
EXTRA VOCABULARY
numbers
STRUCTURES
be, have, possessive 's
MATERIALS AND PREPARATION
Download material: picture cards, family tree, relationship cardsGame 1 Copy the picture cards, family tree 1 and relationship cards. (Remember to copy the relationship cards on both sides.) You will need one set for each pair. Cut up the picture cards and relationship cards.
Game 2 No materials.Game 3 Copy and cut up family tree 2 (set of four cards). You will need one set for every group of three of four in your class.
HOW TO USE THE GAMES
Game 1 Memorizing - Pairwork puzzle- Divide the students into pairs.
- Give one set of picture cards, relationship cards and family tree 1 to each pair.
- They should put the family tree and the picture cards face up on the table, so that they can see them.
- They should place the relationship cards in a pile with the sentences face up.
- They should take it in turns to take a relationship card from the pile and read it out. They should then try to put the picture cards in the right places on the family tree according to the information on the card. (This will get easier as they turn up more cards.)
- The object of the game is to complete the family tree according to the information on the cards.
- When they have finished and the tree is complete, they should turn over the relationship cards so the reverse side is visible.
- They should then take it in turns to take a card and make a statement about the two or three people mentioned. They can check they are right by turning over the card. If they are right, they can keep the card. The player with the most at the end is the winner.
Game 2 Personalising - Small group discussion- Put students in groups of three or four.
- Ask them to complete the following group totals: In our group we have (x) brothers, (x) sisters, (x) sons, (x) daughters, (x) cousins, (x) nephews, (x) nieces(x), aunts, (x) uncles.
- Alter or amend the list to suit the students in your class.
- The object of the activity is for each group to calculate how many brothers, sisters, etc. they have in a group as a whole.
- Collect up totals from each group when they have finished.
Game 3 Communicating - Small group information gap game (family jigsaw)- Divide the class into groups of three of four.
- Make one set of family tree, 2 cards for each group.
- Each student should take one card. They should not show it to the others.
- They should take it in turns to offer statements about the family from the information on their card.
- When they hear some new information, they should fill in the names on their tree.
- The object of the game is to share information so that everyone can complete the family tree.
- When they have all finished, they can compare trees to see if they have arrived at the right result.
- The group to finish first is the winner.
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