Adverb fun

[Manny3]

Hello Everyone,

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I am looking for ideas to make adverb learning fun for junior high students. Any ideas on this will help.

Thanks.

Manny

[Lorikeet]

I'm not sure this would classify as "fun" or be what you are looking for, but I have done a matching activity with my adult students. On card stock I made sentences with a blank where the adjective or adverb should go. Then I also made cards with the adjective or adverb on them. I used similar sets (slow/slowly; beautiful/beautifully, etc.). The students worked in pairs and put the correct word in the sentence. Some words fit in more than one place, so they had to be careful that all the sentences made sense.

[stromfi]

Hi Manny3,

How about a pantomime? I've done this with my adult students and we had a blast. Write an action and an adverb on a piece of paper. Since it was a revision exercise, I used all the adverbs we covered in class. I folded up the pieces and put them in a hat. Then I had each student take one. They had to act out what they had on their paper and the rest of the class had to guess what the action and, more importantly, the adverb was. The more unusual adverbs you use, the more fun and challenge your class will have.

[Manny3]

Thank you guys for your ideas. Actually, I taught this lesson as New Year's goals (ex. I want to study hard, I will sleep late, etc.) I figured that since it was also the first day of classes, I would make the class light for them.

I did try pantomine in one lesson, but it back fired. This group was not the kind to pretend in front of their peers, but that's a good way.

Thanks again.

Manuel