Actions and adverbs of manner - make me say dice games
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
A personalised speaking game to practise "slowly", "loudly", etc, made challenging and fun with the use of a dice, plus an optional error correction stage.
Lesson Plan Content:
Actions and adverbs of manner - make me say dice games
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Ask personal yes no questions to the teacher and/ or other students. You get one point if they say “Yes (I am/ I do/ I can/ I…)” but no points if they say “No (I…)”, “I don’t know”, etc.
Game 1 – actions make me say yes dice game
Do the same, but this time first rolling a dice to decide which of these yes no questions you must ask:
- Are you…?
- Do you….?
- Can you…?
- Are you…?
- Do you…?
- Can you…?
Ask about any questions which you couldn’t make, are not sure how to answer, etc, working together to make suitable questions and answers each time.
Game 2 – adverbs of manner make me say yes dice game
Do the same, but this time asking about how they do or how they can do things with questions including one of the words below. You can use any other words you like (“Can you run fast?”, “Do you shout loudly?”, etc).
- fast/ quickly
- slowly
- loudly
- quietly
- well
- badly
Ask about any words above you don’t understand, couldn’t make questions from, etc, working together to make suitable questions and answers each time.
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Error correction
Find and correct the one mistake in each question:
- Can you run fastly?
- Do you walk sloely?
- Are loudly you breathing?
- Do you whisper quitely?
- Can you play chess good?
- Do you basketball badly?
Check as a class. Then change groups. Without looking above, play the same trying to get yes answers with adverbs game, this time without a dice and without any help.
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