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I'm Not Wearing Boots!
The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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Game – Treasure hunt
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 2, "Colors."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This game practices names of colors and objects.
- Divide the class into groups and choose a secretary for each group.
- Books closed. Have students tell you the names of the colors, and write them on the board for reference. The game will be easier to score if you do not use "light" and "dark."
- Explain the "treasure hunt." When you say "Go," students look around the classroom or among their own personal belongings to find one object of each color. The secretary collects the objects they find and/or writes down the names of classroom objects. Set a time limit of 4–5 minutes.
- When the time is up, stop all activity. Each group holds up or points to the things they found and says the color. The group with the most things wins.
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Spelling contest
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 5, "Grammar Focus: Possessives."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This game is good for reviewing vocabulary in any unit and for practicing spelling. Here, it also helps students learn each other's names.
Preparation: Give students a list of all the students' names to review beforehand, if necessary. Use first names alone. Cut up the list so that each name is on a separate slip of paper. Put the slips into an envelope.
- In class, divide the students into two teams and announce a time limit (10–15 minutes).
- Draw a name from the envelope, and say the name to a student on the first team. If the student spells the name correctly, select a second name, and say it to the next person on the same team. When a student misspells a name, that student sits down and it becomes the turn of the other team.
- The winner is the team that spells the most names correctly (has the most people standing) within the time limit.
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Crossword puzzle
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 5, "Grammar Focus: Possessives."
Time: 15 minutes. This activity is good for reviewing vocabulary in any unit and for practicing spelling.
- Students form pairs or groups and then make crossword puzzle grids of 12 squares by 12.
- Students can refer to the Unit Summary at the back of the Student's Book. Using words from the list, students try to fit in as many words as possible onto their grids. Words can go across or down. Every word must include at least one letter that is in another word. Letters that are next to each other must be part of a complete word.
- This example uses names of objects from Unit 2.
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- After ten minutes, stop the activity and find out who has the most words on the grid.
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True or false?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 9, "Grammar Focus: Present continuous statements; isn't and aren't."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity can be used in any unit to practice writing descriptive statements. In this unit, the activity practices prepositions of place.
- Explain the activity: Students write six statements about the positions of objects in the classroom. Four should be true and two should be false.
- Students form groups and take turns reading their statements while others look around the classroom to verify the statements. If a statement is true, students should say, "True." If a statement is false, they say, "False," and then correct the statement.
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Sentence-making contest
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Listening."
Time: 5–10 minutes. This activity can be used in any unit to practice writing descriptions. In this unit, it synthesizes and reviews language related to clothing and descriptions of people.
Preparation: Collect some large photographs of people (famous or not) who illustrate the descriptive adjectives presented in Unit 3 and the clothes in Unit 4. Assign names to the people.
- Put students in groups. If necessary, review the vocabulary.
- Give each group a picture and explain the game: Students try to make as many different sentences as they can about the people in the picture using clothing words or descriptive adjectives. Give students three minutes for each picture. On a separate piece of paper, the group secretary writes down the name on the picture and every sentence the group can think up.
- When the first three minutes is up, groups exchange pictures clockwise around the class. Groups do the task again with the next picture. Continue the activity until every group has written sentences for each picture.
- Bring the class back together. Find out which groups have written the most sentences for each picture. That group holds up the picture while the secretary reads their sentences aloud to the class.
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