Teaching
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Story and Activities - Part Three
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Part 1
- flashcards and games
Part
2 - Story and illustrations
Now
I am sending you some post-story activities which you can use for
revision and for more speaking practise as the children become more
confident with the vocabulary and
language.
Post-
Story Activities and Games
1. Tasting game
If
you are fortunate enough to have the real fruits easily available then
bring them in and play a blindfold tasting game. Be careful
to wash the fruits and your hands carefully beforehand and cut the
fruits into small pieces. You can give the children the black
and white pictures to be colouring in while you are doing that, or you
can have the fruits pre-prepared – which would actually be a
lot better. Blindfold one child and feed them a piece of
fruit on a spoon. The child must guess what fruit it
is. This is only suitable for small groups of
course otherwise you would need an assistant to help you get
through the children faster.
2.
Make a fruit salad
Again
if you are fortunate to have the facilities to do this making up a real
fruit salad is always a popular activity with the children.
Make sure there is plenty of naming of the fruits as you put them in
the bowl and eat them afterwards.
You could play a game once the fruit salad is made where each time a
child has a go they are allowed a spoon from the salad bowl.
You will have to serve them yourself in a separate dish as these days
everybody is paranoid about germs, and you can't be too careful with
other people's children.
3.
Hot Potato
Seat
the children in a circle and hand out the different fruits at intervals
around the circle. Play music while the children pass the
fruits around the circle. When you suddenly stop the music
the children holding fruits stand up, shout out the name of the fruit
they are holding and give it to another child in
the circle. You start up the music again and repeat until you
feel you have had enough
4.
Chanting game
First
have the children chant or sing these simple words: Bananas oranges
apples and pears – four times in a row. The trick
is to say these four lines in a sing-song type way, with the intonation
going up at the end of the first and third lines and down at the end of
the second and in particular the fourth line. It is better if
you can make up a simple tune, or use a tune that you already know and
put these words to it.
So
you seat the children in a circle with eyes closed. One child
stands outside the circle holding one of the fruits. The
whole group sing or chant the four lines while the child with the fruit
walks round the outside of the circle and at some point secretly puts
the fruit behind another child's back. When the song or chant
is over all the children feel behind their back, and the one with the
fruit must jump up and run round the circle and try and catch the other
child. The other child will never be caught and will run
round the circle and sit down in the place of the child now holding the
fruit. Repeat until as many children have had a go as is
possible.
If
you have a big group you can cut the chant down to two lines and have a
little chasing session every two lines instead of every four to let
more people have a go.
5.
Would you like?
Play
question and answer dance. See the game for how to
play. First practise saying, "Would you like some milk?" in
unison a few times. Count the children in with a one
two. Then hold up a picture of the apples and count the
children in. They must ask, "Would you like some
apples?" Have one go
with each food picture until the children have more or less got
it. This should have taken you two minutes total so far.
Now
you are ready to spend another 3-4 minutes on the game. When
you stop the music hold up a picture card of one of the food items from
the story. Count the children in and ask the question with
them. If the children can do it on their own so much the
better, then you can answer them with, "yes I
would", or "no thank you".
6.
Role play
This
is something to play once the children are very familiar with the story
and are ready to start using more language than just naming individual
words.
Sit your group down on the floor and tell them to pretend to be in a
restaurant where they are to order.
One
of the children is a waiter. If possible give them a tea
towel and tray as props. The waiter comes up to the group and
asks them, "would you like some milk", "oh yes please say the group",
and the waiter goes off, selects the correct flashcard and brings it
back to the table. Now swap the waiter over
and let another child have a go. If possible have the real
fruits available for the waiter to take over to the table.
7.
Shopping race
Divide
your children in to two teams and give each child a picture flashcard
of a fruit or food item that he or she must buy. At the other
end of the room are two shops, one for each team. Place your
two best children in each of the shops. On go the first two
children from each team run down to the shop
and the shop assistant must ask them what they would like for example,
"would you like some bananas?" The child doing the shopping
must say, "oh yes please" if his or her picture is of bananas and "no
thank you" if it is of any other item.
You
can vary how you play with this idea. For example you could
allow the shop assistant to see the flashcard so that all the shopping
is done very quickly, and this is the best way with the three year olds
anyway. Or you could allow the shop assistant three guesses,
and if none of those guesses are of the picture in the flashcard then
the shopper has to go back to his or her team empty handed.
There
are of course many more ideas in the e-book of games which accompanies
the stories, and I hope that, if you have found this series of emails
with pre-story games and flashcards, a story and post-story ideas, that
you will see how much fun and how satisfying your teaching can be, and
that you will get the whole package of games with all ten stories.
Thank you for your interest, I hope the material has been helpful, and
all the best with your teaching. I will contact you again in
a while, and remember that you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking
the link below.
Do let me know how you get along with the materials and I shall email
you again soon with more ideas to use after story telling, and
particularly with more speaking ideas.
Kind regards
Yours
sincerely
Shelley
Ann Vernon
Teaching
English Games
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