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Oh, My King
SUGGESTED TOPIC: Actions SUGGESTED TOPIC: Numbers SUBMITTED BY: Joyce P. Le INSPIRED BY: MES-English/Japanese game shows DATE ADDED: Feb19, 2008 EDITED BY: Mooloo
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Brief Outline: Students study action verbs and practice numbers 11-19 (or whichever numbers they have troubles with). Students become "the king" or "the slave", and either say the action verbs, or do the actions.
Materials Needed (not included):
- Envelope: One set for each group.
- Small flashcards of target vocabulary: One set for each group.
- Set of number cards (11-19): One set for each group.
Detailed Explanation:
- Teach students the action verbs along with the gestures.
- Play a warm up game of Criss-Cross or Charades to ensure students’ understandings of the vocabulary and meanings.
- Divide the class into groups. Each group gets an envelope with the small flashcards of the target vocabularies and a set of number cards (#11-19).
- Each student picks a number card and reveals it simultaneously. If it is not too complicated for the students, encourage students to say the number they have aloud for practice. The student with the highest number is the king and the student with the lowest number is the slave. The king picks a card out of the envelope while the slave closes their eyes.
- The king will show other team members the card and everyone in the group must confirm that they know how to say the vocabulary. Students are encouraged to ask teachers for help. Then the slave will open their eyes and everyone will say the daily routine simultaneously as if they are giving the slave an order (students love to point at the slave while giving the order).
- The slave must do the action based on what they hear and how they understand the word. This is not a game to punish the evil, so if a student makes a mistake, students and teachers are encouraged to correct and help the student.
- Every time a card is chosen and someone in the group does the action, the card is put aside. The group who finishes going through all the cards wins the game.
Teaching Suggestions:
It is best to teach the pronunciation for the action verbs and then teach the actions for the words. For example, “wake up” would be yawning, “go to school” would be both hands on your shoulders pretending you are holding onto your backpack and start walking, “go to toilet” would be squatting and make a painful expression as if you are going on for a #2 (students love this gesture), etc.
Prepare a set of cards for each envelope. The number of envelopes depends on the number of groups needed.
Prepare a set of number cards. The numbers you use for class depends on whichever numbers the students need practice with.