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Brief Outline: Gesture game relating to sports vocabulary.

Materials Needed:

• Flashcards (not included or needed)

Detailed Explanation:

1. If flashcards are available, place them in an area that is visible to all students (e.g. the blackboard).
2. Depending on class size, divide the students into teams and have them line up, with each line represents a team. Instruct the last student and the first student of each line to stand up.
3. Have the first students come toward the ALT but away from their team. ALT will whisper to each student a target vocabulary, for example "baseball". On a given signal of the ALT's choice, i.e. 1-2-3 Go!, the students act out this vocabulary using only gestures, no sounds. The last student of each line tries to guess which sport their teammate is acting out and when/if they know the answer, they raise their hand. The first student to guess correctly receives a point for his/her team.
4. Once the answer is correct, the gestured students move to the end of their lines and the first students become the actors. The process repeats until time runs out. 

Variations:

• Due to the simplicity of this game, there is a lot of flexibility to tailor it to each individual class. Some variations are adding multiple sports at once for students to act out, assign a different sport to each gesturing student, or add a telephone-game twist for the students who are sitting.

Teaching Suggestions:

• Charades is called "Gesture Game" in Japanese.

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