Activities Bag 

INTRODUCING VOCABULARY

Paraphrase – Do not have the words

listed in this case, (is lengthy). - WC
Mime and guess - WC
Matching words to pictures – WC or I/P
Anagrams – WC or I/P
Word search – I/P
Hangman – WC
Find the words in a written text – I/P

REPETITION ACTIVITIES

Repeat if correct
Repeat in a chain
Encore une fois
Pass the telephone
Mime to provoke repetition
Songs

PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

1)PAIR WORKS

Mouth and guess

Mime and guess
Write in the air and guess
Write on your partner’s back and guess
Hangman and guess
Pictionary and guess
Psychic
Anagram and guess
Partner in control
Pelminism
OXO with partner
Bingo with partner
Teach and test partner (particularly for role plays)
Class question and answer carousel
¡Encore une fois!
2)READING ACTIVITIES

APPROACHING THE TEXT

Tactile gap fill
Hidden words gap fill
Reordering the text.
Reordering sentences within the text
Decoding words in the text
Unjumbling anagrams in the text
Inserting punctuation
Inserting gaps
Running dictation
Colour coding the text in terms
of verbs, nouns, adjectives etc.

SPEED READING EXERCISES

Coloured reading
Verbs / Nouns / Adjectives /
adverbs etc. reading
Finish the sentence
before your partner
Punctuation reading

READING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES

Simple sit down and do
Pass the buck with shakers
True and false
Writing a response to the
text in some form (E.g. a letter,
an article, a description)

3)LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Stand up when you hear
Reordering cards in a story
Matching pictures to a
speaker (with cards)
Note down all of the
(certain type of word /
words from a certain topic)
try to get more than your partner
True or False
James Bond
Cherche l’intrus – Find the words
in a written passage read aloud
that are not supposed to be there
(could be done as a reading exercise).

4)GRAMMAR PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

Pass the buck (concentration on
certain forms)
Running dictation (again changing
from one form to another)
Story writing (with
specific paramenters)

WAYSTAGE ACTIVITIES
(Many can be adapted and used as
end activities)

Round robin – S
Guess who – S
Battleships - S
Story/letter writing – W
Play/song writing – W and S
Creating a cartoon – W
Creating a news report /
radio broadcast – W and S