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[spliff]

Can anybody recommend any good games for praticing ways to express quantities (1-cow, 2-dog's etc) at low beginner level (Pub sch gr. 3). Any help greatly appreciated!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I did an excercise with my vocational high school classes this week that would probably work just as well with elementary kids. I printed out a bunch of random pics of things off the Net and brought along my bag of magnets. In big letters on the board I wrote 'Nouns - 명사' and 'Adjectives - 형용사', and then I told them first to name the noun, showing them the pics: truck, boy, dog, announcer, cat, pyscho, funeral, whatever. Then I wrote out a list of adjectives: fat, crazy, Korean, kind, happy, huge, lovely, etc. Then I circled an adjective and drew a line to the picture I had pinned to the blackboard. Then I got them to take turns coming up, circling an adjective, and drawing a line to the picture of a noun with which it corresponded. As they were doing this I wrote along the side of the board:
It's a _________ __________
He's a __________ _________
She's a _________ __________

and, pointing to each picture, asked them 'what is it / she / he?', getting them to make a sentence using pronoun, article, adjective, and noun. Some of your grade 3 elementary students probably have better English than some of my vocational high school students, so it should be easy and engaging enough.

[schwa]

[poet13]

"spliff wrote:
(1-cow, 2-dog's etc)

Low beginner level -- you or the kids?"

No kidding.

Spliff huh? Nice nick.

How about, "if Johnny buys two pounds of shmoke, how many quarter Z'z can he get out of it if he smokes 1/4 of his stash?"

[wormholes101]

Here's a simple, easy and very effective game. Kids like this game a lot and can play it for 30 minutes without getting bored. I call it the 21 game but it's actually adapted from a drinking game (see all those drinking games you played in uni actually had some value!)

Group your students into groups of 5-6 if possible (any amount is ok but 5-6 seems good) Have them sit down on the floor in a circle. The aim of the game is to be the last person remaining.

Decide an amount that you'd like the students to count to (eg 10 or 20)
Person who says that final number is out for that round.

Choose the person who starts with eenie meenie mynee mo. The students count around clockwise taking turns to say either 1 or 2 numbers. When the count reaches the final number, the person who was forced to say it is out. Person to the left starts again from 1. Continue until just one student remains. He/she is the winner.

Play again.

You can adapt this to counting cows, dogs, money; whatever you like.

A couple of rules I find useful: If a student isn't paying attention and has to ask what number he is on, he is out. Insist on pronouncing the 's' in the plurals; no 's' sound and you're out. The kids can police each other on this. If they say a number out of order eg. 12, 13, 15 that is also out.

You can chuck in more rules to make it fun and tricky. For example, you cannot say 1,2 in combination. Or 9,10. It catches some kids out sometimes and they love it when they can catch out their classmates.

When it comes to explaining the rules, just demonstrate the game with a few of the best kids and the other will pick up the rules in a flash.

One last tip: Make the last number one higher than you really want them to count to cause they usually won't say the last number (because they realise they are out and just stop)

If you want to see a small video clip of the game in action, PM me and I'll email it to you.