Break time activities

Break time activities with Amy

scroll down to see the different activities we have been doing

Listening task 1 - Things in the classroom

*Group of 6 for 30 minutes sessions*

*listening practice, learning new vocabulary, following instructions*

Each person is given a task each one by one. Students must listen carefully to the instructions Amy is giving.

For example:

student 1 is ready to listen carefully.

Amy: 'Put the book UNDER the table'

student 1 follows command.

You only have 10 seconds to complete the task so listen carefully !!!!

Vocabulary learnt during this activity: 

Oral activity: What are you going to buy?

*memory, food vocabulary, pronounciation*

today we are going to the shops. What shall we buy? an apple? milk?

students sit in a circle. Amy begins the game buy saying

 ´I am going to buy an..orange. What are you going to buy?´

The next student repeats the sentence, but adds on his/her choice of food.

next student: I am going to buy an orange and a banana.

next student: I am going to buy an orange, a banana and some fish!

The game continues until someone can´t remember the list !

Merry Christmas and A happy new year !!!!

Watch this short clip of us wishing you a merry christmas

'Let it snow let it snow let it snow'

watch this short clip of us singing an English Christmas song

Twister and

Advanced Twister !

*Both listening and oral practice, sentence structures, colours, left and rights, body parts*

Step 1: two students on mat

the others will give the directions one by one.

Put your right Hand on the colour Yellow !

Put your left foot on the colour red !

Put your left hand on the colour blue !

Who will fall first !?

...Advanced Twister...

*listening practice, 2nd person form, wide range of vocabulary*

Task: ALL students stand around mat

AMY MAKES STATEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE.

IF YOU ARE WEARING RED ....... PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND ON THE COLOUR GREEN!

IF YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE.... PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT ON THE COLOUR YELLOW! 

(students return to stand around mat after each question)

Scrabble 

 How many words can you make????

Here is an example of some of the words one group made.

CARNIVAL

Who    am    I ?

*using 1st and 2nd person, asking questions, wide range of vocabulary used*

Task:

 Each person will be given a post-stick note that will be stuck on their foreheads. On each note there is a word. This word can be the name of a famous person (singer/artist/football player) , a profession (teacher) an object (table, whiteboard).

Each person must guess his/her word by asking questions to the rest of the students.

 For example; Am I famous? Am I real? Do I live in England? Am I a girl?

Each person asks 1 question each at a time.
The other students will answer yes or no followed by a full sentence. For example; Am I famous? – No you are not famous. - Student will continue asking questions until everyone has guessed who they are!

Time´s up !

*using all vocabulary they have learnt, quick thinking*



Students write down 1 - 10 on their paper.

1.

2.

3.

4.
5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

                                    

Amy will pick a letter out of the bag. students have 1 minute to think of a word that begins with that letter and writes it for number 1.

for example: E

1. Elephant

When the time is up, each person will read their word.

BUT!  If two people have the same word, 0 points!

If you have a word that is different to the rest, 1 point!



Here is a video of one group playing the first game - 

Advanced Time´s up

* putting vocabulary into categories*

Write down 4 headings in a table :

the students are split into 2 TEAMS.

Each letter I pick out the hat, you have 1 minute to fill in each column!!

No copying the other team !! 

Share you ideas with your team mates

Pictionary

*engaging, competitive, uses wide range of vocabulary, vocabulary changed to suit season (eg. christmas time)*

Students are sat in front of the whiteboard.

One by one student comes up to the whiteboard and is given a card with a word on it. 

They have to draw it, and everyone has to guess what it is. 

Hot seat!

How to play:

• Split the class into 2 teams, or more if you have a large class.
• Elect one person from each team to sit in the Hot Seat, facing the classroom with the board behind them.
• Write a word on the board. One of the team members of the student in the hot seat must help the student guess the word by describing it. They have a limited amount of time and cannot say, spell or draw the word.
• Continue until each team member has described a word to the student in the Hot Seat.

THE QUESTION MASTER 

*using the second person, using the 1st person, thinking carefully, answering questions, 

 Students begin in the middle of the room. On the right hand side of the room is labeled 

‘yes’. 

On the left hand side is labeled ‘no’. 

Amy ask questions. for example,

Are you wearing pink?’ ‘Do you like chocolate’ ‘Are you 11 years old’ ´do you have any pets´

Students must run to the side of the class that refers to them. 

Each student must then answer the question in a full sentence one by one.

Then they must say something that is the opposite of what they have said, using the connective word 'but'.

FOR EXAMPLE

‘Yes, I am 11 years old but I am NOT 12 years old´.

Yes I like chocolate but I don´t like carrots

If you answer wrong you are out the game !!!! so take your time and think carefully

Fill in the gaps

Learning through songs.

-listen to the song 

-Fill in the gaps to the song... before the time runs out 

for example ´frozen´ : 

´´Let it ___´´

Link to website : 

http://es.lyricstraining.com/play/idina-menzel/let-it-go/HK5ofqY19K#b7w

BINGO!!

Whats the word?

Trace the letters onto the back of the person in front of you!

The person at the front of the queue has to write the word on the board.

Can you guess the word before you run out of time?





MEMORY GAME

How good is your memory ?

Take it in turns to match the picture with the right word

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/concentration/