Banks activities

No | Activity | Preparation | Rules | Players | Material | Time | 1 | I Spy | Write many words on a blank piece of paper in random order and positioned at all angles. Make copies of the page for each of your students to have one. To play, you read a word to your class. They race to find that word on the page. The first one to find it reads it out loud and then circles it or crosses it out. That person scores one point. Then wait until everyone in class has found the word. Read a second word, and students then search for that one on the page. The first to find it scores a point. As you call out more words, students will be reading many of the words on the page.. Play until someone reaches a certain number of points or until you have called out all the words you want your students to read. | Everyone has a paper with words written on. I will read every single word and you guys have to find that word. The first one to find it has to read it out loud and will score 1 point. Play till the last word and the one with most points wins. | 6-7 | Words paper | 20 mins | 2 | Snake and Ladder | Draw a grid 5x5 (depends on how long you want to play). Each square will have a question/ puzzle/ command/ picture. Depending on the question, who lands on the square will have to answer or do that. Otherwise, some squares will have snakes, which force to go back, and ladders which force them to go up. Play until one team reachs the final square. | We will divide into 2 teams. Each Team starts with a token on the starting square and takes turns to roll a single dice to move the token by the number of squares indicated by the die roll. Tokens follow a fixed route marked on the gameboard which usually follows a track from the bottom to the top of the playing area, passing once through every square. If, on completion of a move, a player's token lands on the lower-numbered end of a "ladder", the player must move the token up to the ladder's higher-numbered square. If the player lands on the higher-numbered square of a "snake" (or chute), the token must move down to the snake's lower-numbered square.If a player rolls a 6, the player may, after moving, immediately take another turn; otherwise play passes to the next player in turn. The player who is first to bring their token to the last square of the track is the winner. A variation exists where a player must roll the exact number to reach the final square to win. | 2-3 | 5x5 gridDice | 30 mins | 3 | BingoKaru | Bingo is a classic game that you can use not only in numbers lessons but also when talking about letters or even words and phrases. Rather than make Bingo cards, have students fill in the grids themselves. Karuta is another Japanese game. Have students sit in groups and spread vocabulary cards face up on the desks. When you say a word aloud, the student who grabs the correct card first gets to read it aloud and keep it. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. | Basically, players buy cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. The numbers are announced quickly by the Caller, so you must pay careful attention to the numbers/ words that are called and mark them quickly and accurately on your card(s). The caller keeps calling numbers/ words until one or more players claim BINGO. Then the game stops and the numbers are verified. | 6-7 | | 15 mins | 4 | Jeopardy | Based on the classic TV game show, this game will require your students to put on their thinking caps. Divide your whiteboard into columns for vocabulary categories and rows with different point values.Divide your students into two teams. Each team chooses a category and the points they want to play for. Supply a clue or definition. They must guess the right country in the form of a question. If they answer correctly you erase the points from the chart and add them to the team’s tally until they’re all wiped off. Adapt this game to any level of difficulty and include as many categories as you wish. | We will have two teams. Your team will have to choose a category and point you want to play and answer a question. Correct: You get the point. Wrong: other team has a chance to answer. They’re right, they take your point, wrong you lose nothing. The team with more points in the end of the game will win. | 6-8 | | 30 mins | 5 | Pictionary | This is a classic and one that may easily be adapted to any level. Students are split into two teams and they take turns drawing words, actions, or situations that they have drawn from a pile of cards. Teammates guess what is being drawn. | Each team takes turn to guess. The one who describe the word can say only 3 words. | 5 | Flashcard | 20 mins | 6 | Hangman | Guess the words (optional: the sentence) | | 7-8 | | 10 mins | 7 | Tic tac toe | Say you want your students to practice the simple past tense. Draw a 3 by 3 grid on the whiteboard. Write a sentence in each square, with a gap where the verb should go. Write a list of 10 verbs on the side (one of them won't be used). They must supply the right form of the verb to complete the sentence till one of the teams gets a Tic Tac Toe. Try it with any gap-filling exercise! And expand the 9-square grid to a bigger 16 or 25-square grid. | Like XO game. Each team has to choose a square and fill in the blank to mark their X or O. The team scores 3 mark in one line will win. | 6-8 | | 15 mins | 8 | Hot seat(Yes/no question) | Place one student in the hot seat, in front of the whiteboard, with his or her back to it. You and another student stand in front of her/him. Write a word, movie, or book and stick it in her/his forehead. The student must guess through asking questions. | The “hot-seat” can asks other students 10 yes/no questions to guess the words. | 5 | Sticky note | 15 mins | 9 | Earthquake | Draw a 5 by 5 grid on the whiteboard and label each column from A to E and each row 1 to 5. Each team chooses a square, say “A5”; you ask a question you have previously prepared. Before starting the game choose five squares that won’t have any questions, and when a team chooses one of these, tell them an earthquake has just swallowed up some of their points–deduct 5 points. | Same as Snake and Ladder. | 6-8 | TokenDice | 30 mins | 11 | Flying ball | First, you’ll need to draw a playing field like this one on the board or a large piece of paper:Next, divide your students into two teams. Place a “ball” token at the center. Then, students must answer questions correctly to approach the posts and score a goal. | There are 10 questions for 2 teams, five for each. Every team has to answer to question to approach the ball and kick it to the opposite’s goal. When a team scores, the ball moves back to the center, and the team that did not score last starts. The team with the most goals wins. | 6-8 | 3 tokens at least. | 15 – 20 mins | 12 | Crossword/ Puzzle | Create a crossword or a puzzle, depends on what you want to practice. | Students will follow the clue to guess the word or solve the puzzle. | 5 | | 15 mins | 14 | Find your half | Prepare a small slip of paper for each student in your class. Each paper should have one word on it that goes with a word on another slip of paper. Fold the papers and put them into a hat. | Each person draws one slip of paper. On your word, students must circulate and talk to one another trying to find their partner. Once two people think they are a match, they come to you to see if they are right. If they are, they sit down and create a sentence with 2 words given. Play until everyone has found their partner and read out loud their sentence. Then have those partners work together to create a new pair of words that go together. Repeat the game with these student given examples. | 6-8 | Paper | 30 mins | 15 | Golden Bell | Students have to answer 30 questions to ring the bell. | Who have the correct answer will stay in the game, wrong answer out. The last one standing wins. | 10 | 30 pieces of paper for each | 20 mins | 17 | Card- missing | Divide into more than 2 teams. Each team will be given 5 piece of papers and 5 cards. The papers will have a sentence written on with a blank and every card is a verb/ adjective. But each team has other teams’ cards. They have to go for a charge with other teams to get their right cards to fill in the blank. | The cards will have the words missing in the sentences. You will have 10 minutes to find the right cards from other teams to fill in the blank of every sentence given in your papers. Use English only. Then go to the board and write down all the sentences. The fastest team wins. | 9 - 12 | Pieces of paperCards | 30 minutes | 18 | Do what I say | Prepare 10 words or commands from a video to play the game. | Do what I say, not what I do. | 5 | | 10 mins | 19 | Story - teller | Video of a simple story and ask them to watch and listen carefully. | Students will take turns to play “phi tiêu” and talk about one detail of the story and score points. Do not repeat. | 5 | Phi tiêuVideo | 15 mins | 20 | Online Games | http://gamestolearnenglish.com/http://www.vocabulary.co.il/http://www.funenglishgames.com/games.html | | 5 | Computer – wifiProjector | 30 mins |