Phonemic bingo

1. Write the phonemic symbols of vowels at the blackboard. 2. Ask the students to draw a 4 X 4 grid. Then they choose a different phonemic s...

My thingumajig

1. The teacher explains that the students must guess the name of an object by making questions about how the object is used, using can. Beca...

Letter by letter

1. Player A says a letter. Player B thinks of a word beginning with A's letter and says its second letter. C thinks of a word beginning ...

Mind your ear

1. Ask your students to write down the words with a particular sound, e.g.: [e]2. Dictate a set of different words including those with soun...

Selling freezers to Eskimos

Use the word of an object to challenge the student to 'sell' it to the class by arguing why they really need it. This activity can b...

Guess the word

1. Form groups of roughly equal numbers. Try and keep the groups as far away from each other as possible. Explain that one member of each gr...