Vocabulary
Speaking
Mixed
Writing
Listening
100
Which activity requires you to ask your partner as many questions as possible within five minutes and remember the answers?
Paired interviews
100
This activity requires students to write a dialogue with pictures and act it out.
Comic strips
100
This is an activity where students read a story or text and break it up and talk about it using different roles and responsibilities.
Literature Circle
100
Pairs of students have a conversation by writing on white boards without saying a word.
Silent conversation
100
Three students have to repeat the same sentence as fast as possible.
Three times.
200
This activity is modeled after a game show where the students describe words or concepts and another classmate has to guess what they are within a minute.
The pyramid game
200
This activity helps students reflect on a dilemma and choose an outcome with the help of other students.
Conscience alley
200
This is an activity where students are given questions and answers on the same card that do not correspond. The first person who asks the question is the last person to answer.
The Loop Game
200
Students are asked to draw pictures from specific vocabulary on the board. The vocabulary is erased and then they create a story from the pictures.
Illustrated vocabulary
200
Students have to have a conversation where each sentence begins with the next letter of the alphabet depending on the letter that starts the conversation.
Alphabet Dialogue
300
This game requires students to turn over two different cards and combine the words or expressions on each card into a rational sentence.
Random Pelmanism
300
In this activity, students ask each other personal questions and decide which answers they liked the least and the most.
About Me Survey
300
Students have a conversation using the alphabet only.
Alphabetization
300
This is an activity where students take turns speaking or writing one word/phrase at a time to create a story.
One word at a time
300
Five students summarize a story in five lines by repeating what each person said.
The Wave
400
These readings help students learn vocabulary in context, figurative language and cultural metaphors.
Children's Literature.
400
Students listen to a story or joke and retell it to a partner as fast as possible.
Babble Gabble
400
These are repetition exercises which do not allow for error.
Drills
400
In this role, the student's job is to observe the main characters of the story and write adjectives to describe them an give reasons why.
Character Captain
400
Students are given an answer and they have to come up with a question.
Jeopardy
500
Which story included these words in it: begged, sighed, disbelief, gasped & grumbled?
The Fisherman and his Wife.
500
This is a word association activity in which the students analyze each other's thoughts.
Psychological Couch
500
This concept provides students with a way to release emotions and puts emphasis upon " doing" rather than memorizing.
Drama
500
In this role, the student's job is to write five questions related to a story/text he/she thinks his group would like to talk about.
Discussion director
500
Students have to create a sentence using two verb cards while others listen and decide whether they are bluffing or not.
Bluffing Card Game