Spoonerisms
You hissed my mystery lecture.
You missed my history lecture.
It’s roaring with pain
Eye ball
It’s pouring with rain
Bye all
It crawls through the fax.
It falls through the cracks.
Paranoid
(Pair annoyed)
Back in a minute
(Back N a minute)
Behind in my
work
What Word?
• 12th letter, tied ribbon
Elbow
L Bow
• Bake the 5th letters
Cookie
Cook Es
• Golf ball holder, mug
Teacup
Tee Cup
• Above neck, musical group
Headband
Teaching Grammar
through Participation
Topic 5-1
Games
Today’s Rundown
• Introduction to Participation through Games
• Game ideas
• General
• Related to lessons (as a review)
• SHARING of game ideas (your part)
• Break
• MORE ideas
• Lucky Draw
Basic Principles
• To ensure comprehensible input, the language use
must genuinely make meaning by / for the students
(but not meaningless drills)
• To maximize comprehensible output, students have
to use / repeat the target form as much as possible
• To maximize noticing, a target form should be
identified and brought to the students’ attention (e.g.
writing on the board)
Basic Principles
• To maximize internalization, the game
should be played at frequent intervals.
• No context, therefore cannot replace textbased teaching
• Atmosphere: fun, laughter, quick pace vs.
discipline
• As fillers, not full lessons
• As bonuses for good behavior
Preparing the Students
• How will you group them?
• Instructions are critical. Practice.
• DO NOT give out the materials before you
give the instructions. Kiss the game goodbye.
• Set a time limit. (5-10 minutes)
• A lot of materials for each group? Put them in
bags.
Transactional Language
• English only?
• Then give the students “game” language.
You will notice…..
FOOD BEGINNING WITH…
Can you think of a food that begins with…
A
K
S
L
T
M
U
N
V
O
W
P
X
Q
Y
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
RELATED WORDS
Draw a line and add a word related to “vegetable”
Vegetable
RELATED ADJECTIVES
Write down any word related to “happy”. This can be a synonym,
antonym, a related noun or even an idiom or expression.
happy
What is happening?
They are…
There are…. Who? What? Where? When? Why?
He is saying… (you can add speech bubbles)
He is a…
What is happening?
Who/what/when/where/why
Let’s Play Games!
Unscrambling (p.3)
How many words can you make from these 9 letters? (3 letters or
more)
A D I
R R P
S N O
READY?
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
109
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Kim's game 1
READY?
10
11
12
13
14
15
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
18
How many do you remember?
Kim's game
READY?
0
1
10
11
12
13
14
15
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
20
How many do you remember?
How many things…
• How many things can you think of that…?
• …are round?
• …make a noise?
• …you can sit on?
Categories (vocabulary)
• Write one word for each category with the first
letter
Clothes
Class objects
Animals
Country
Body part
Food and drink
School subject
Furniture
Jobs
Score
Score
Score
The following
could be used as
a review of
previous lessons!
Blackboard BINGO (p.3)
Choose 5 words from the list below.
Write these down.
• Articles
• Dictogloss
• Context
• Comprehensible input
• Prepositions
• Noticing
• Compare/Contrast
• Text-based
• Adverbials
• Grammar
• Passive voice
• Tenses
• Meaning
• i+1
• Sequence
I will read 5 words.
• Adapt
If I read one of the words is on YOUR list—cross it out.
The first one to cross off 5 words shouts BINGO!!
CROSSWORDS
• Someone write a 5- letter word on the board.
B
O
M E L O N
K
S
• Clue: “ I like reading them”
• Your turn: think of a word; give a clue
You try!
•
•
•
•
Think of a word.
Give your partner a definition of that word.
Your partner will write the word making a crosswords.
Now your partner will think of a word and give you a definition.
b
e
a
c
h
MISTAKES!
• Oh dear…the teacher cannot read properly!
• Turn to the text “The Beach” (from Topic 2-1)
• I will read the text, but there may be some mistakes.
• Please tell me IMMEDIATELY when I goof!
Jumbled Sentences (a) (p.5)
• This sentence is from your book.
• It doesn’t make sense. Rewrite it.
movie star in
Jackie Chan
is
Hong Kong a
now famous
Jumbled Sentences (b)
• I’m going to dictate some words to you. But, they won’t be
in the correct order. You will have to make them into a
sentence that makes sense!
YOUR ideas!!
YOUR Ideas
• You have (or should have) a large piece of paper.
• Work with a partner or small group.
• Write down some ideas that have worked for you in the past
that you’d like to share.
• When you have one idea written down, pass your paper to
another group.
• We will do this 4 times.
• Afterwards I will collect the papers and POST them outside
this lecture hall.
• You can all have a look.
Take a Break! 40 minutes
• Walk around and take a look at the posters.
• ALSO—try to answer the questions/ add your ideas on the
Question Posters.
Other ideas
• It is a…
• It has…
• It is wearing…
• It is…
• It is a dog.
• It has
• a pencil (in his mouth)
• Glasses
• Big eyes
• It is wearing…
• glasses
• It is…
• Sitting (on paper)
One more try…
• There are…
• They are…
• Both men are…
• The man who is…… looks….
• The man who is…… looks…..
•
•
•
•
•
There are two men.
One man is reading a paper.
One man is looking.
They are in a hotel lobby.
Both men are wearing hats.
• The man who is reading the paper looks scared.
• The man who is on the left looks worried (etc).
Other possibilities
A good resource:
KEY Concept: Grammar Teaching
 Less explanation, more exposure and use with focus
on form-meaning relationships (for both input and
output  thinking  internalisation)
LUCKY DRAW
THANK YOU ALL…
• Please do keep in touch!