TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH 1/ Pelmanism /’pelm A nizm/ Prepare 10 cards with numbers on one side and the coutries and their cities on the other side. Make sure the countries and the cities are mixes up. Stick the cards on the board so students can only see the numbers. Divide the students into 2 teams and ask them to choose 2 numbers. Turn over the cards and see if they match, e.g. Tokyo – Japan. If not, turn the cards face down again and ask the other team to choose. Continue until all the cards are turned over. 2/ Jumbled words Divide class into 2 groups. Ask students from each team to go to the board and write down the correct words. The team which is faster with more correct words wins the game 3/ Hangman Draw strokes on the board. Each stroke stands for a letter of the word. Students take turn to guess the letters of the word. If a student’s guess is not right, the teacher draws a stroke (according to the order in the picture) If students guess wrong 8 times, they lose. Teacher gives the answer 4/ Word square Stick the poster on the board Ask students to find 8 nouns and 4 adjectives about clothing in the word square Get students work in pair to find the words Divide the class into 2 teams, students from each team go to the board and circle the words they have found then write them down in the column of their team. The team which has more words will win the game. 5/ Kim’s game Ask stdents to remember the phrases on page 14, 15 in 30 seconds. Then let their books closed. Divide class into 4 groups. Students from each group take turn to go to the board write as many words as they can. Groups with the most words wins the game. 6/ Brainstorming Write the word CLOTHING on the board. Divide the class into 2 teams. Students from 2 teams go to the board and write the words relating to CLOTHING. The team which write more words in limited time is the winner. 7/ Shark’s attack Cut out a shark (or a crocodile) and a school boy/girl from card. Draw some steps, then stick the cut out boy/girl on top of the step, the shark is in the sea. Draw 5 gaps for the word JEANS Ask students as a whole class for a letter in the alphabet. They have to try to guess the word. If their guess is wrong, the girl/boy has to step down. If their guess is right, they will get one mark. The game continues until students find out the word JEANS and the shark can’t eat the boy/girl. 8/ Chatting Ask students some questions about their feeling when wearing different types of clothing 9/ Noughts and crosses (questions and answers about a place) Divide the class into 2 teams Draw a nine – square grid on the board Each square is numbered. (from 1 to 9) Make 9 word cards: Who, Where, When, What, Which, How, How many, Is, Are. (number from 1 to 9) The team will take turn to choose the number and make a question using the word given on the card. If they can make a correct question, put a X (or O) in that box. The first Team that has three “Xs” or “Os” in a line on the grid wins. 10/ Maching Divide class into 2 teams Ask students to write down 2 sentences on 2 different pieces of paper; each sentence begin with: I am …… (real situation) I wish…… Collect the pieces and put them into 2 different bags Ask students to pick up the paper one at a time, read it loudly to the whole class. Those who have the funniest matching will be the winner. 11/ Lucky number Write 10 numbers on the board, from 1 to 10. Tell students each number is for a question but 4 of them are lucky numbers. If students choose a lucky number, They do not need to answer any questions but they get 2 points and they can choose another number. Divide the class into teams. The teams take turn to choose the numbers Tell students that they have to make questions about personal information when teacher gives them a word as a cue 12/ Information transmitting Divide the students into 2 teams. Choose 6 volunteers from each team. The volunteers stand in 2 lines. Show the first student (in each team) a sentence. He/she whispers the sentence to the next person in his /her line. The second student whispers to the third… and so on. The last student shouts out the sentence, if it is the same as the sentence the teacher shows, that team wins the match 13/ Guessing game Ask students to write his /her favorite activity in a small piece of paper and keep it secret. Get students to ask Yes/No questions to guess the teacher’s favorite activity . TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH 1/ Pelmanism /’pelm A nizm/ Prepare 10 cards