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Humanising Language Teaching Year 4; Issue 6; November 02
BOOMERANG WORDS
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: all
Materials: cards with words of vocabulary taken from previous lessons
Time: 15 min.
Focus: this activity can be considered as a vocabulary revision
Procedure
- Put the cards on the floor face down.
- The students sit in pairs. Each pair takes a card and is asked to use the word as often as possible in a dialogue. The students have one minute to do this. The other students try to guess the word.
The winner is the pair that has used the same word the most often.
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