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Eyes Shut
Introduction:
True or false game played with closed eyes.
What is learnt?
Present Perfect, and can be adapted to teach other grammatical structures.
How the game is played:
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1st put a selection of irregular verbs up on the board, e.g.
buy bought
bought
begin
began
begun
give
gave
given
lend
lent
lent
lose
lost
lost
see
saw
seen
sell
sold
sold
Make sure the meanings of the verbs are clear to everybody.
- Group the students in seated circles of about ten. Explain that they are going to play a concentration game, with eyes shut. The first student will make a present perfect sentence about herself, using one of the verbs given or another of her choice, e.g. 'I've sold my bike'. These sentences may be either true or false. Everybody shuts their eyes. The student to her right then repeats her sentence, in the first person and adds her own, e.g. 'I've sold my bike, I've begun trampolining'. Student 3, going round the circle, repeats the first two sentences and adds hers etc.
- Tell the students to have a good look round their circles before they shut their eyes. Get the game going. (Some groups manage to go round the circle more than once, so there are 15, 20, 25 present perfect sentences being remembered.)
- Allow the students time to guess which sentences were true
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Graham.J.B. for submitting this game to us.
02.01.2007. 12:02
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