Humanising Language Teaching
Year 3; Issue 5; September 2001

1. Jump the line

Anna Sofie Pedersen, Denmark

Vocabulary:
The numbers
The alphabet

Place a piece of string on the floor of the classroom. Ask the students to stand in a line on top of the string. The teacher stands in front of the students, facing them.

She calls out a letter or a number and the students jump to the left or the right and step back in the line, before the next letter/number is called out.

A letter = jump to the right
A number = jump to the left

Students, who jump to the wrong side, are out and make their own line behind the teacher and take turns in calling out a letter or a number.