This article will deal a game and a craft activity. This article will also illustrate another great point about games involving body vocabulary, which is how many other bits of target language they can be linked in with.
Kids love drawing monsters, and there are many good ways of turning that into a game with lots of language practice. One is to have two dice, one with body parts written on the six sides and the other with the usual numbers. Students then draw the combination that comes up, e.g. giving their monster six eyes. Students can make these dice themselves for writing practice and a fun craft activity.
Similar games are possible with a spinner (a cardboard hexagon on a pencil), or with a ball thrown at flashcards or words written on the whiteboard. You can also replace the numbers with names of animals, so that the monster has a “bird’s head”, “lion’s tail”, etc.
A fun writing version of this is to adapt chain writing (= consequences) to this language point. The first team writes a sentence describing the head, then folds the paper back so that what they have written cannot be seen, then passes it to the next team for them to write a description of the neck. When the whole animal has been described by being passed around the class, the next team unfolds the piece of paper then draws the whole animal.
Materials:
* 2 dice
*Color Pencils
*Card Board
*Flashcards (optional)
*Ball (optional)
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