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Making it fun for young learners to learn grammar
Adapting activities from textbooks using stories
and games
TESOL 2011
Checklist of child-friendly activities
Does the activity . . . . . provide students with a meaningful
context for using language? interest and involve all students? focus primarily on meaning? let students pick up some language
chunks naturally? provide students with opportunities to be
creative, i.e. to go beyond what they have been taught?
contain language for interaction, for fun/ play, for imaginary purposes? ( not only for linguistic purposes)
Use the checklist with this activity.
The Pied Piper
disaster reward
From Tieng Anh 8
Would your students enjoy doing this?
articulation
square root
vocal cords
input aspiration
lead-in
information gap
fricativefacilitate
receptive skills
capitalism
equation
colony
top-down
climate
cognitive
nasal cavity
output
rainfall
president
empire
labial parliament
feedback
multiply
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STEP
PIN
G S
TON
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ran
took
had sat
came
atedid
went
flew
standwrite
laugh
sing
ring
do
tell
thinkcome
speak
teach
say
ask
wash run
be
Start this side
Get here
STEP
PIN
G S
TON
E
ran
took
had sat
came
atedid
went
flew
standwrite
laugh
sing
ring
do
tell
thinkcome
speak
teach
say
ask
wash run
be
Start this side
Get here
How will you make this exercise fun?
From Tieng Anh 11, unit 16
You may twist it into part of an adventure.
Choose a door to enter the Pyramid.
Find out what is inside these coffins. ->
complete the task
use one activity with different contents
vary one content with different activities
use popular stories -> split them into stages
With a little imagination, teachers can…
Once upon a time there lived a bear named Yogi.
One day he went into a room and found this piece of map.
Choose an object to see if it contains a piece of the map.
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23
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
He got a complete map now.
Then Yogi prepared to start the journey.
I’ll give you a stick and a bag if you complete
these tasks.
After a long journey, Yogi arrived at Successful Life Land and…
I will give the key to the
best group!