13.

Find The Food

Materials: realia replicas of the food & utensil cards, box or basket
Time: 5-8 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, unit vocab
Productive Language: unit vocab
Game Explanation: Divide the class into teams & have them sit down in team line-ups
towards the back of the room with the first student on each team sat in a chair & the rest of
the team sitting in a line-up behind her. Place a box or group of realia in front of each team
(if 3 teams make sure you have 3 strawberries, if 4 teams 4 strawberries, etc). Make sure the
realia is far enough away that the students have to run to pick it up. Place an empty box on a
chair at the very front of the room; this is the ‘basket’ that the students have the drop the
correct realia into. Model the game well so that the students know that when you say
‘Strawberry...3-2-1 GO!’ they must run to their box of fruit or utensils, find the object
you’ve named, run & drop it in the basket & then run & sit down at the back of their team’s
line. The first team to put the correct fruit in the basket & sit down the fastest scores a point.
When all of the team members are sitting down, pick the fruit out of the basket & ask
‘What’s this?’ to get the students to use as much English as possible.
11. Spills And Thrills
Materials: none
Time: 8-10 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions
Productive Language: flashcard (or category) vocab, ‘I like...’, ‘I don’t like....’, and, plurals
Game Explanation: Model the correct use of plurals & the word and by choosing a category
& starting a simple list, using, if you like, a short introductory phrase such as ‘I like...’ or ‘I
don’t like...’ (e.g. ‘I like apples and oranges’). Throw a die or ball to any student. The
student must repeat your phrase and add a new word (e.g. ‘I like apples and oranges and
grapes’). The student then passes the ball or die to another student in the circle, & so on.
Play continues until a student fails to remember all of the words or can’t think of a new item
to add to the ever-expanding list. Select a new category & continue.
8. Set The Table Race
Flashcards to use: food flash cards (though any will work) 
Class size: whole class 
Set up: If possible, it would be good to use coloured tape to put lines down on the ground to
indicate where the teams should line-up. You also need props - chopsticks, paper cups and
plates, plastic forks and spoons (use your judgement on giving your kids plastic knives!),
and placemat photocopies (from the office) 

Divide the class into two teams (or more if a large class) Have them sit down in lines. Give
each team a name, like 'apple team', 'banana team' etc. If you have a long seika class, let the
kids decide their own team name. On the other side of the room, lay out all the cutlery and
plates/cups (one for each team). Then put a placemat photocopy in front of each of the
teams (to put their things onto) 

Model the game by joining one of the teams and stand at the front of the line. Call out a
vocab item and then have the kids say 3-2-1 GO! before you run over to the cutlery and
plates to find the right item. Run back to the placement, and model clearly that the kids
should get the correct item, and put it in the correct place on the mat. An incorrect item, or
incorrect placement gets zero points. Sit at the back of the line when the round has finished. 

With the teams sitting in their lines, shuffle the cards and then everyone says 3-2-1 GO!
Turnover the card (or simply just say it) to the front member of both (or all if more than
one) teams. Give the team that correctly gets the right item and places it correctly a point
and then encourage the entire class to repeat the vocab. Repeat.