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Hot Potato  
Submitted byElem ALT team 

Outline: Students pass an object around while listening to music. When the music stops, the student holding the object says a target vocabulary.
 
Materials Needed:
  • Music - use upbeat music.
  • Potato item - paper airplanes, big squeezable die, fake cellphones, crumpled balls of paper.  Start the game with one item, then when the students get the hang of it, try inserting additional items.

 

Procedure:
  1. Start the music and have the students start passing the ‘potato item.’  You might need to explain that they're to pass the timer not sit and play with it or stare at it in wonder.
  2. When the music stops, have the student holding the ‘potato item(s)’ stand up and say one of the target vocabulary words.  If you have more than one item in the game, don't allow students to choose the same word.

 

Variations:

  • For more advanced classes, make the students form sentences, "I like ~," "This is a ~," "This is my ~."

 

Teaching Suggestions:
  • If you are really mean, after the student says the target vocabulary, they are 'out'.

 

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