[Vickiii_NZ]

Some excellent games on here. I hope this post is continued. Does anyone have ideas for teaching games for one-on-one or small group lessons with adults to teach past tense?

[Eric]

Quote Vickiii_NZ

Some excellent games on here. I hope this post is continued. Does anyone have ideas for teaching games for one-on-one or small group lessons with adults to teach past tense?

hi,

you might get more answers to your question if you post it as a new thread in the games forum. that way it won't be lost in this long thread.

[zeynepozturk]

ı needed an idea to teach past continuous but when I examined your ideas,ı found more creative ones than I wanted thanks for your ideas...

[Deancuster]

Thanks Smy12Brazil for your Crime game suggestion. I adapted it into a card game that I will attach for anyone who is interested. It works well and the kids like trying to figure out which one of their classmates is the thief.

[natifonzo]

Greaaat!!! This is just what I needed it!! Regards,

Quote little sage

I can't remember which book I learned this from, but it was a great success in my class of 11-12 year olds.

Purpose: to review the past continuous ie. "They were playing basketball".

Preparation: Either have cards with action words ready, or use your text book to point to the actions they have studied in their book.

Method:
1) Divide the class into two teams.
2) Create a space where one team can sit in chairs together and the other team can stand up without tables in the way.
3) Have one team sit down and close their eyes, or face the wall.
4) Monitor that eye closed/no peeking rule, perhaps deduct points for peeking.
5) Show the other team an action verb like "playing basketball".
6) That team silently acts out the action until you say FREEZE.
7) When you say FREEZE every member of the team freezes their current action and holds it.
8) Team one can now open their eyes and see the frozen actors.
9) Each student from the seated team takes a guess at to what Team 2 was doing. "Was she playing tennis?" HINT: Guessing should be fairly swift, poor team one is patiently frozen, remember.
10) A successful guess gives them one point.
11) After all students guess once, point or no point, play proceeds to the next team.
12) Game ends at teacher's discretion.

TIPS: To get the game going at a good pace, use simple sentences like "She was eating". Once the kids are into it, increase the level of difficulty by adding objects (not physical objects, silly) to the sentences. ex. "She was eating spaghetti".

[hayley84]

Excellent Idea, i used this method for my Past continuous grammar presentation. Everyone was having fun with that, and it's makes the fun very fun!

thanks...

[jaykaylam]

Quote little sage

I can't remember which book I learned this from, but it was a great success in my class of 11-12 year olds.

Purpose: to review the past continuous ie. "They were playing basketball".

Wow! It's a long time since you posted this and I've only just found it!!

I love it - thank you!