HIP Suggested activities

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1 Spelling Bee
2 Drawing mural
3 Crossword Puzzle
4 Wordmaze
5 Filling in the blanks
6 Role-play
7 News reading
8 Let’s tell a story
9 Sharing new info (Pupils share new information that they know to their friends)
10 Debate
11 Discussion about a topic
12 Hangaroo
13 Board games e.g. Scrabble
14 Spelling Contest
15 Picture cover up (Find a picture. Cover it up as a whole or a part of it and let the pupils guess
the covered part)
16 Simon Says
17 Feeling jar (Write some feeling adjectives on papers, put them inside a jar. Students pull out
one of them from the jar and mime (act out) other students try to guess the adjectives
18 Write a word (WEATHER) on the board and ask the students to find new words from the
letters as many as possible.
19 Repeated questions
20 English quiz
21 Riddles
22 Charades (Select a student to stand at the front of the room and act out a word from your list-
no speaking is allowed.)
23 Bingo
24 Forming simple sentences with words.
25 Hot Potato (Take a ball and say it’s a hot potato so you can’t hold it for too long. Announce a
topic e.g. sports and start the potato going around the circle. Each person has to name a sport
within 5 seconds without repeating what’s gone before, the potato get too hot to handle and
they’re out of the game. The winner is the one left standing.)
26 Tongue Twister
27 Chalkboard Acronym (First, you have to write a word vertically on the board. Each student
must come up with a word starting with each letter of the vertical word.)
28 Beep Game (Call all the students to come and stand in a line at the front of the classroom.
The first student in line must begin counting from 1, and each student in turn calls out the
next number. However, every 4th number must be replaced by the word "beep". Following a
"beep" the next student in line must call out the next number, and not the number that has
been replaced. For example, 1, 2, 3, beep, 5, 6, 7, beep, 9.
29 Guess the letter on your back (Divide the students into groups and ask them to stand in line
and give the students in the front of the line a piece of chalk to write on the blackboard. Then
write with your finger a letter on the back of the students at the end of the line. They must do
the same with the student in front of him/her and so on. The students with the chalk try to
guess the letter and write any word that begins with that letter on the board.
30 Any other relevant English activities that focuses on the language skills.
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(Shalini d/o Kangan) (Makeswari d/o Murugan) (Selvaraju s/o Thangaraju)
HIP’s coordinator Senior Assistant of Co-curriculum Headmaster