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i am teacher who will teach kids about 7 years old
and i am Chinese.
my boss want me to teach all things in english in whole class.
and i think it's a little bit hard for me to teach them grammer such as sentenses in the title .i don't know how to present it to stimulate kids interest.
please give me some tips~
thank u~

If you want to teach kids "Have you got a ___?" you have to decide what the response should be. Probably "Yes, I do" or "No, I don't" would be simplest. Depending on how large your class is, you could bring a big bag with a bunch of small items (one for each kid) like pencils of different colors, erasers, comb, pens of different colors, hair clips, paper clips etc.
- Pull the items out of the bag 1 at a time and say what they are, and have the kids repeat as a group: a (red) pencil, a (blue) pen etc. You may want to limit the new vocab to 4-5 items otherwise they will forget.
- As you pull the items out, put them on the desk, or on the floor if you 're sitting in a circle
- When all are out, pick up items 1 by 1 and repeat "a pencil" etc.
and then give the item to a student; repeat until everyone has an item
- Then ask one student "Have you got a ____?" and indicate the response you want: Yes, I do.
- Ask everyone "Yes" questions, then
- repeat asking "no" questions
Now the kids have heard you ask "Have you got a...?" a LOT. It's time to have them ask each other. In a small class you can bring a student up to the front and have them be the teacher; in a large class they should walk around and ask others. They've all heard the question and the answers so they should be able to do this easily.
You can do this as a review by using the same items and putting them in small paper bags, handing them out, and having students ask the questions without knowing what's in the bag; the student who answers will have to look in his/her bag to see what's there.

First of all, I guess you don't have to panic about this.
Well, I tried one game with my students before, they love it so much.

Okay, you can go online to find some activity cards. Sorry i can't remember one web site which provides the sources like that.
Find some printed cards online which have pictures in it (with actions/facial expression, etc)
Then, you can use it as a 'hide and seek' activity, tell students to hide those cards, and then pick someone to find them and during the game, you can ask: "Have you got a (e.g.) wallet in your pocket?" (let says the card is written "Wallet in pocket"), then once the student found the card written with "Wallet in pocket", the student need to reply as : Yes I've got a wallet in my pocket.....

In this way, you are keep asking the same question (same pattern question which is "have you got, have you got.....", then your student will be practicing to answer with "Yes, I have got..., Yes, I have got...."

If i remember the site, i'll probably post it back to you.

Cheers,
Alice

Your idea seems good for the "Have you got ...." part, but I don't think anyone answers that question with "I have got..." Although I'm in the U.S. and generally teach "Do you have..." instead, I never want to teach my students (adults) to answer, "Yes, I have...".

This is NOT part of a common conversation:

Do you have a pencil?
Yes, I have a pencil.

This, which I do use for certain purposes, is better:

Do you have a pencil?
Yes, I do.


However, I make it a big point to teach that all of the following are perfectly appropriate in conversation and much more common, and that we are using "Yes, I do" to help learn the verb patterns of English:

Yes.
Yeah.
Yup.
Uh-huh.
Mm-Hmm.
*nod*

Yeah it's partly true from what you said.
But i think it's a great tool to motivate them to participate in the lesson/you can called it a game.

I tried it with my students, not to use "have you got"...
Actually i gave them some flash card with picture and words in it.
e.g. Gorilla is wearing a hat. (in a flash card)
Then I will ask my students, "have you found, have you found..." once they spot the card, they will call out..."I have found, I have found a gorilla, he's wearing a hat.
After few practice, I will change another way of asking...e.g."Can you see", Can you see....and the students answer with " I can see I can see a monkey's climbing up the tree.

If you try to teach children of 7 English language directly with too much (some may say any) grammar, you will bore them and confuse them. Why not do a simple art project? For example you could talk about some kind of animal or insect with which the children are very familiar and then ask them to produce 'fantastic' or 'amazing' versions of the same. Show them your own example, eg. butterfly with 8 wings, snail with 'hotel' on its back etc. to stimulate ideas. You could make up simple drawing/writing/listening worksheets with instructions to make 'fantastic' (snails) in guided practices. You could put children in pairs and ask them to produce their own examples and write a description with your support. Then display, have competitions etc. Let your students 'fly' round the room, make pretend wings for their backs.

All these things are possible and just require a little bit of thought and preparation. Within such an activity you will have more than enough opportunity to test and check the children's acquisition of grammatical items without resorting to a structured grammatical approach.

Chok dee krap!

hi from turkey
I know a game about has/have got its name is Who has got whose what ? ffirstly you bring some puppets or pictures to class and you explain what they have and who they are .then your students close their eyes and you change your puppets clothes or other things as their hat glasses ext... than you sk who has got whose what it looks like a game