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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 4; Issue 6; November 02
LETTERS AND WORDS RACE
Valérie Fontaine and Alain Moreau, Dutch teachers, I.E.P.S.C.F. – Uccle, Belgium
E-mail: philippe.biava@busmail.net
Translated by Karin Rocher, English teacher, I.E.P.S.C.F. Uccle, Belgium
Level: beginner/intermediate
Materials: - one alphabet with red cards / one alphabet with blue cards
- list of 11 words taken from previous lesson
Time: 30 min.
Focus: vocabulary/spelling
This activity can be used as a warm-up activity in the morning, after a break or at the end of the day.
Procedure
Divide the class into two groups: one playing with the red cards and the other with the blue cards.
Place the cards on the ground.
Shout a word from the list. At that moment a student from each group gets up, looks for the first letter of the word in his colurand holds it in front of his group.
Before the next student can get up and take the second letter, the first one must sit down.
The game continues until the word is spelt correctly.
The winner is the fastest.
Remarks: as a follow-up activity ask the students to make pairs and to take a sheet of paper.
They must remember and write the words alphabetically.
Correction on the blackboard.