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cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

I'm teaching 6th grade tomorrow, and the lesson is about daily routine. The target language is stuff like; "It' 7.00, it's time to get up".
If you are an elementary teacher, you'll know what I mean. It's Lesson 15, period 1. The game in the book is absolutely dire and I want to make it more interesting for the kids. So, anyone have any ideas to make it better?

yeremy · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: Lesson 15-1

We're doing a survey instead of the game. My KT and I think that most of the officially provided game's are pretty bad. Personally, I think that most of our students have cognitively outgrown the games that are in the official textbooks, which may have worked ten to fifteen years ago, but don't for the most part fly with the kids today. My KT may make a survey form, but if she doesn't, then I will hand out paper and the kids will make their own survey form with the questions we want them to answer.
What time do you get up?/get dressed/eat breakfast/go to school/eat lunch/come home (from school)/play soccer (with friends)/do your homework/eat dinner/watch tv/go to bed?
I also made a listening grid based on the fictional story of a Mexican boy's daily schedule (habits). And I am going to make a crossword for vocabulary about the different kinds of clocks. Our sixth grade kids are really visual and they like doing crosswords and word searches. I hope that helps. Good luck. I hope this is not too late.

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

No, not too late. I think I can put something together based on your input. So thanks for that. I have to agree the games in the book are terrible and are in urgent need of revision. It's painfully clear that the 6th graders find the games completely unstimulating. Cheers.

anyangoldboy · Joined: 28 Sep 2007

You could get them to do what time do you ...? I ... at 8 o'clock. Then get them to write it down or make a chart and they have to ask other students in the class what they do at different times.

Get them to also show and tell about their day. You can use past tense and future - ie At 8 o'clock i got up. At 9pm I am going to etc. Depending on what time of the day it is.

You could do an action game if they are interested 6th graders. Get them to act out their day and get other students to guess what they are doing.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

http://www.mes-english.com/games/bombsaway.php

My kids absolutely love this game. It's battleship essentially. Put a time across the top and an activity down the side. It should take about 15-20 minutes including explanation time. You could play a short one on the board for demo purposes.

yeremy · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: Mime Games and 6th Graders

Our fifth graders love mime games, et al, but by the time they are second semester sixth graders they don't like to do mime nearly as much. I'm not really sure why. But today we did a role-play, not from the book but one I adapted, and we had them practice it in small groups of six at their desks and that worked well. I like to use mime for warming up and for review with sixth graders. David Paul's book, How to Teach English to Children in Asia, has a lot of good constructivist oriented games, which I like to use.