Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

6.5 My free time
Level
*
Language focus
Present continuous tense
Skills focus
Speaking: pronunciation
Thinking focus
Identifying and memorising
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Small group work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Divide the class into groups of three. Each person in the group has to
decide on three free time activities.
2 The first person mimes the three activities and then says What am I
doing?
3 The others have to guess the three activities and name them in the correct
order. In giving their answers, they say You are . . . -ing . . . See Box 115
for some examples.
4 Then the others in the group have a turn at miming while their classmates
try to guess the three activities in the correct order.
5 While the children are miming and guessing, go from group to group and
check their pronunciation and grammar.