Ball & Music
 Brief Outline: Students pass a ball to music and revise questions or vocabulary. Materials Needed: - Two balls OR Two objects
- Music (World music works well to introduce different counties or a topic)
Preparation Needed: - A list of words or questions
Teaching Suggestions: - Good for revision or conversation classes
Detailed Explanation: - Explain the rules of the activity. Detail out the passing order (who will pass to who) to avoid confusion.
- When the music plays, students pass the balls/objects and when the music is stopped, the students holding the balls/objects must stand up.
- The teacher shows a flashcard or asks a question and the the first student to answer wins.
Variations: - Can be used the revise a specific grammar. Make one object the ‘question object’ and the other the ‘answer object’. The ‘question object’ must devise an original question based on a given grammar point. Alternatively, the students could be given a topic (like school subjects) and must base questions around the topic.
- Scaffold the activity, by starting off easy. Ie. Students can answer just yes or no. Build on this, with students having to say a sentence to follow their response and maybe asking a follow-up question.
Cautions: - Students may take a long time to think of a question on the spot, thus making other students bored. And distracted whilst waiting. You could have students write an original question at the start oft eh game.
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