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SUBMITTED BY: Joyce P. Le     EDITED BY: まだ

Washing His Face

GRAMMAR: Present Progressive Verb     EXAMPLE: Mark is washing his face.     DATE ADDED: 01-31-08 

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 15-30 min.
 
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Brief Outline: Students practice using present progressive sentences and reviewing “who is ~” while playing a competition games in class.

 

Materials Needed:

 

Detailed Explanation:

  1. Decide on the competitive game – Jeopardy, Attack 25, PacMan, Hurricane, Castle, etc.
  2. Divide the class into groups. Most JHS classes already have pre-arranged groups with a leader for each group. Give each group 1-2 picture worksheet. To prevent one student from answering all the questions and/or slackers, decide on an order to speak among the groups. It could be easy to have the leader of the group be the first to answer and go counter-clockwise.
  3. Teacher will read each question slowly and student will answer the question. For example, ALT asks, “Who is washing his face?” Students will look at their worksheet and will know that the answer is A, therefore the first student to raise his/her hand and answers, “Mark is washing his face” gets a point for the group.
  4. The group with the most points wins the game.

 

Teaching Suggestions:

  • For higher level class, consider deleting the sentences on the worksheet to encourage students to think of their own answers.
  • Before starting the game, go over the answers with students to make sure students can read and understand the sentences, if necessary.

 

Comments:

  • (Nov 24, 2011) Rezz said: I cut all the cards out and turned this into team based karuta. The kids made groups of 4, decided on a team name and put their hands on their head, then me and the JTE took turns asking "What is ____ doing?" (I changed the names to students names too, good tip SC). They had to slap the card then raise their hand, fastest hand up got a chance to answer and get one point for their team. Worked well. We kept scores on the blackboard.
  • (Apr 6, 2011) SC said: I changed the names on the worksheet to those of the students in the class, and everyone thought it was hilarious. We used the Typhoon game format, and the students loved it. I blanked out the verbs and only put the infinitive form in parentheses as a hint. I've also used this worksheet for practicing the past tense.
  • (Jan 14, 2011) Dan Quinn said: I did this with the JTE and the students seamed to enjoy it.
    At the begining of class I started asking questions from lesson 7 segwayed in to lesson 8 (~ing) before we practiced the expressions on the printout.
    I divided the class in to groups of four (total eight groups) and gave each group a printout and a white board and a marker.
    What they had to do was write the answer to the question in a full sentence on the board and hold the board up. Spelling and punctuation counted so if they forgot a period etc. they didn't get a point. After about 5 questions I then changed it so only the first three (correct) who held up their boards got the points. Then after 10 questions only the first group to hold their board up got the point. Then the last question I said the first group to hold up their board would get four points. The first group with the highest score got three points. The second two points. The third one point. The students tend to get a little noisey competing as groups.