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zumi
Michaela Z�rcher
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Memory "clothes"
In small groups, they can be used as flashcards or for the "bomb game": a bomb (an egg-timer in a box) is handed around, nobody knows when it goes off. Nobody wants it in his hands when this happens. To pass the bomb on, you have to say the name of one of the pictures on the table (we only play with the picture cards). The next player has to find t...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 30


 
Dress the family
Read the instructions and dress the family. Or dress them as you like and tell then others what they have to draw. If you dictate well, the pictures will be alike.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17


 
Question cards and activity cards for board game
Questions and activities with vocabulary from these fields: people�s descriptions, family, food, prepositions, rooms and furniture. They work with any game board.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 42


 
fully editable vocabulary game - Nim
The game description is on the third page. This game is easy to adapt to any level you like, just make the definitions harder. You put the definition cards in a grid. In order to take one card, the player have to find a word that fits the definition.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8


 
Mice at the beach
The students look at a funny picture (link where to get it included) and try to find the mice described, then they describe some mice for their companions to find.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1


 
At the beach, then and now
This ws goes together with the powerpoint "then and now". Ss write short and easy sentences to describe the pictures.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8


 
This is what Mr Bean does in the morning
A fun way to repeat the daily routines� vocabulary. Students first fill out the worksheet and then watch seven and a half minutes of a funny video (Mr Bean getting up late for the dentist). Answer key and link where to get the video included.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12


 
Memory "house"
In small groups, they can be used as flashcards or for the "bomb game": a bomb (an egg-timer in a box) is handed around, nobody knows when it goes off. Nobody wants it in his hands when this happens. To pass the bomb on, you have to say the name of one of the pictures on the table (we only play with the picture cards). The next player has to find t...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45


 
movements
Flashcards �movements�, especially to prepare the songs �Body Boogie� or �Shake your sillies out� by The Learning Station
Level: elementary
Age: 4-8
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 26


 
wordsearch jobs
First, we talked about jobs with the books "What do people do all day" by Richard Scarry, "Osito busca a sus amigos" by Daniela Kulot (w/o words) and "In the town all year round" by Rotraut Suzanne Berner, also w/o words. By the way, book 2 and 3 are wonderful to get the children talk about many subjects, because they can imagine the stories behind...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16

 


Carnival Guessing Game
You uncover the picture slowly,bit by bit, while the students are guessing what carnival costume has been hidden. My students loved it. I used it to start a lesson about carnival.

Level: elementary
Age: 5-9
Downloads: 8


Wishing Machine
Fun activity to make ss find easy rhymes.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 2


People. Physical descriptions
Ss learn to describe people�s hair and eyes.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 8


The wishing machine (long version)
This is a new and longer version of the wishing machine. The students read first an easy text and try to guess the name of objects that rhyme with a given word. Then they try to find rhyming words on their own.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 8


Guess the job
Pictures of different jobs which the teacher discovers bit by bit to let the students guess

Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Downloads: 22


Guess the picture
Make your students talk: While you reveal slowly the picture bit by bit, they make guesses about what�s in the image.

Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Downloads: 21


Treasure hunt with prepositions and house vocabulary
The students have to use prepositions to describe the treasure chest they would like to open. They then discover how many points (or negative points) are inside. It�s a fun activity to reactivate the prepositions and the house vocabulary. I was inspired by the treasure chest powerpoint game from ja...

Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Downloads: 115


Behind. preposition drill
My students have a hard time learning the prepositions, they always have to sing a song ("in, on, under, ...") first in order to know what a given preposition means. So I decided to "drill" them in one preposition at a time.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 4


I spy with my little eye
The well known game as a ppt with some funny pictures

Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Downloads: 17


Mr Bean prepares a sandwich
A short introduction to view a funny Mr Bean episode (with a little vocabulary review) to make students laugh. Maybe to fill the lesson after an exam or to reward students.The link where to find the video is on the last slide.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 34

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