Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.5 Geographical tongue twisters
Level
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Language focus
Word order in a simple sentence
Skills focus
Pronunciation: initial consonants
Thinking focus
Constructing
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Team work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Divide the class into two teams.
2 On the board, write the verb is bouncing and the geographical place beach.
3 Team 1 suggests a subject for the verb is bouncing, e.g. A ball. The aim of
the competition is to suggest words starting with b.
4 Team 2 suggests another word to add to the sentence. The sentence could
now read A big ball is bouncing . . . beach.
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5 The first team may want to change the sentence to make A big ball the
object. In this way, they could add another b word as a subject, e.g. Ben is
bouncing a big ball . . . beach.
6 Each team continues to add a b word to the sentence. The last team to
add a word is the winner. See Box 74 for some sentence ideas.
7 It is important to pay attention to the grammatical accuracy of the
children’s suggestions and make corrections where necessary.