-For food vocabulary and fun Teacher gives each student a paper plate and asks them to design their favorite pizza by drawing the things they most like onto it. Teacher can show them his own example with e.g. cheese, tomato, ham, pineapple and chocolate!
If they are pre-writers, they can teacher and each other what is on their pizza. If they are able to, they write the words of the ingredients next to them on the pizza. The ‘pizzas’ can be displayed on the classroom walls.
-I went to market (for older students) Students get into a circle.
Teacher starts by saying: ‘I went to market and I bought an apple’.
The student to his right must repeat what teacher said and add another thing beginning with B.
Teacher keeps going until the last student has to remember 26 things bought in market!
-Bingo (To practice word recognition)
Teacher preparer a list of 20+ words the students know well – they can recognize them in their written and spoken form and know the meanings. Either write the words on the board or hand out a list of the words to the students. Students must choose any 9 of the words and write them onto a piece of paper that looks like this:
tiger blue pen
pizza ten orange
chair book girl
Teacher chooses words from the list at random and reads them aloud. If the student has the word on their paper they cross it out. As soon as a student has crossed out three words in a line – up, down or diagonally – he shouts “Bingo”! And he is the winner.
-Label the classroom Children learn from everything around them and need constant reinforcement of language. A fun way of reinforcing the written form of the words for classroom objects like door, board, window etc is to label them. Teacher writes the words on the card and as he teaches the words he sticks them to the appropriate object or gets students to label the objects themselves.
One lesson he jumbles them up and gets students to label them appropriately.