Supported by: Government of Indonesia (GoI) and Islamic Development Bank (idb)

 
Chain Sentences 
This is good for students who have learned sentences. You can apply similar procedure as the above 
game. The difference is that at this game, the students mention sentences. The last word of the first 
sentence becomes the first word of the second sentence. For example: “I love basket ball.” “The basket 
ball game is in the William Arena.” “William Arena is next to TCF Bank stadium.” TCF Bank Stadium 
was build by TCF bank and the Indian Tribes.” You can continue the game as long as you and your 
students like.
To ensure that students get more opportunities to produce sentences, you can assign them to play the 
game in groups. You just need to practice the first game for the whole class to let the students experience 
the game for the first time.
Change Places 
This is a great activity to get students moving about and practice some vocabulary or sentence 
structures. Incorporate this activity in the class at an appropriate time. It is a definitely a ‘warmer,’ it’s 
better to apply it in the start of the lesson.
Procedures: 
 Ask students to sit chairs in a circle, or in two lines facing one another. Move spare chairs from the 
circle or the two lines. 
 You can start by saying, "Change places if (for example) you’re wearing black shock." All students 
who are wearing black shock must stand up, and move to another chair.
 The last person to find a chair should give the next command, "Change places if you (for example) 
have two siblings" and so it goes on until you think it’s enough to warm up to provide students 
enough language practice.
Young learners can get very excited with this game so make it clear from the beginning that pushing 
other students out of chairs and similar behavior is not going to be tolerated! For higher levels, you adapt 
the commands with more difficult language items such as, "Change places if you went shopping last 
weekend", or "Change places if you would like to have less homework."

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