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Review - Grade 3

 

 Fun Riddle: "This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it, and, in fact, nothing is! It is unusual though. If you study it and think about it, you still may not find anything odd, but if you work at it for an hour or two, it might dawn on you!"  <see answer below>

Back to School, Mr. Bean (all textbooks)
Students watch an episode of Mr. Bean and use this as a way to access both culture and recent grammar points.

 

Groups complete in this Jeopardy-style game to answer various questions, depending on their grade level.

 

Students are given a celebrity card and have to describe the person using 5 sentences.

 

Jump Thru Hoops (New Horizon, but easily adapted to any textbook)
Students have to complete a series of seven puzzles in order to figure out the secret sentence.
 
Students learn to hear the difference between katakana pronunciation and REAL English by playing this fast paced card game.
 
Students get a chance to practice speaking and interacting with ALT/JTE by challenging their quick response to random questions. 
 
Students watch the Mumble penguin movie and fill-out the worksheet, possibly even surfing the Mumble website and allowing your students to play some exciting games.
 
A fun debate game aimed at late 2nd-3rd graders for reviewing overall grammer, particularly 'X is bigger than Y', 'has' and 'can'. I like to encourage creative thinking and competition and this game really brings it out. Great for after a test!
 

Students improve their spelling while having fun with English words.

 Worksheets Without Explanations

The Hunt

(New Horizon) 

Just Review

(all textbooks)

 

Jeopardy

(all textbooks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: "The inventor of Scrabble studied the New York Times front page to deduce the frequency of each letter found in Scrabble. Of all the vowels, the letter ‘E’ was used the most. However, in the above paragraph, ‘E’ is not used one time. It was later found out that ‘E' is the most common letter in the English language."