Match Stuff Up
Submitted by: Raegina Taylor Borrowed or inspired from: Last year's notes Date added: 11-06-07 Edited by: Tatyana Safronova
Brief Outline: Students use the target grammar to complete a matching exercise of great fun and educational value.
Materials Needed:
- Sets of cards. Enough for five per student plus spare for those who run out of cards
- One worksheet per student
- Visual aids for warm-up
Preparation Needed:
Photocopy worksheets
Print and cut out cards
Make visual aids for warm-up dialogue
Teaching Suggestions:
To warm-up and to target all areas of learning do a listening exercise like this one. You can use the attached sheet as a way to grade listening skills. Make sure you use loads of props and act it out. It gets the students involved and interested!
ALT: Today, let’s go to the zoo!
JTL: Ok! Here, use this car. <draw a car on the board>
ALT: Ok! Oh no, a bad tire! <scribble over a tyre>
JTL: Oh no! Use this horse. <pull out a flash card>
ALT: Thanks! <start ‘riding’ across the classroom> Look, Jusco! <pointing> Let’s eat ice cream for breakfast! JTL: Oh really? Ok! <eats ice cream cutout> Yummy! <wipes mouth with a handkerchief and also blows their nose> Oh no! Here, use my handkerchief. JTL: Thank you, but I have tissues!
Detailed Explanation:
There are two sets of cards. One set is objects and one set is actions (verb phrases).
Each student receives five action cards and five object cards. Students go around the room with their cards and try to score cards off each other by playing Janken while using the target dialogue.
The winner says a sentence using the ‘Let’s ~’ dialogue. The loser looks at their cards, and if they have a matching object they MUST say a sentence using the ‘Use this ~’ pattern.
If the actions and objects do not match, the students move onto a new partner. If they match, the winner receives both cards.
If students run out of cards, then they can come to the ALT and receive a complete new set of cards.
Students complete the writing activity according to the cards they collected.
Variations and Options:
If you have spare time you could play a general game like the ball and music game to review the grammar. Students do the same game structure, only choosing pairs based on with whom the music stops.
I have also included a back-up worksheet to put on the back of the general worksheet for students who finish early. Students who finish early don’t get bonus points for finishing the other side, but if they finish and just sit there, then I mark their paper and they don’t get any points – lovely and manipulative.
Tips or Cautions:
- I tried to get boys and girls to talk together by giving only the boys certain cards and vice versa. This just meant they stood on opposite ends looking at each other and muttering ‘muri, muri’ for the duration of the activity. Instead, maybe get students to choose a number from one to six at the beginning of the lesson, which will put them in corresponding groups. They must talk to everyone in that group FIRST and then they can talk to whomever they like to complete the game. Don’t tell them these conditions until after they have talked to everyone in their own groups, or they just won’t do it.
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