Playing with words

Муниципальное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение

«Средняя общеобразовательная школа № 8»

Тема

PLAYING WITH WORDS

Авторы:

Шеверина Светлана Яковлевна

учитель английского языка

2023

PLAYING WITH WORDS

Изучение слов на любом иностранном языке - процесс сложный и зачастую скучный. Как заинтересовать юных учеников изучением словарного запаса? Лучший способ-это веселые и увлекательные словарные игры и занятия. Цель этих игр – укрепить словарные навыки и сделать обучение увлекательным. Ученики смогут развить коммуникативные навыки и логическое мышление. Такие игры заставляют детей говорить и использовать язык, весело проводя время. Вот несколько игр, которые помогут ученикам весело изучить английский язык. Особенность этих “MAD stories” в том, что они могут отражать как реальность жизни, так и быть “hilarious” уморительными, что веселит детей еще больше, и этим повышает мотивацию. Игру “Mrs Green’s Refrigerator” можно проводить в группах с реальными фруктами и овощами или же их рисунками.

I’d like to present you some kinds of funny vocabulary games on topics from textbooks. “MAD stories” is fun to play with friends, classmates in class, but you can also play it by yourself. To begin with, do not look at the story with gaps, mind only the headline. Fill in the blanks on the first page with the words called for. Then fill in the blank spaces in the story with the words you have selected on page 1. After you have completed your stories, read your stories one after the other and select the most realistic one and the most hilarious one.

The Olympics

Every four years, countries from all over the (noun)__________________ send their best _(plural noun)__________________ to compete in _(adjective)______________ games and win _(plural noun)_________________ . These sport events are called the Olympic (plural noun____________ and they began (number)___________ years ago in _(adjective)________ Greece. When a winner receives his or her (adjective)___________ medal at the games, the national _(noun)____________ his or her country is played by a/an _(adjective) ____ band. As soon as the band _(verb ending in “s”)______________ the citizens of that country should put their _(part of the body)____________ to their chest and started singing their national _(noun)____________ . Thanks to modern equipment, these _(adjective)_____________ events can now be watched by millions of _(plural noun)______________ throughout the world every four _(plural noun)_____________ .

HOME SWEET HOME

Some people like the saying, “Home is where you hang your-(noun)___________ . Others are fond of the expression, “Home is where the _(part of the body)_________ is.” As for me, my home is a village, _(number)__________ -story _(noun)__________ home with a/an _(color)__________ fence surrounding it. I perceive it as my _(adjective)__________ castle. My home is associated with_(noun)___________ and tranquility. Every_(noun)___________ I look forward to coming back to my_(adjective)___________ home where my faithful_(noun)____________ will _(adverb)___________ greet me by wagging its_(pat of the body)___________ and_(verb ending in “ing”)___________ all over me. I just love my home_(adjective)_____________ home.

Mrs Green’s Refrigerator.

This is an activity for groups of four students. Working together, the students have to work out where various fruit and vegetables are placed on different shelves in the fridge in order to find out where the carrots are. Here are the main handout and four information cards.

Task. Work in groups of four. Mrs Green is very fussy about how she lays out her display of fruit and vegetables. Each of you has a card with some information about where she puts her things. Working together fill in the names of the fruit and vegetables according to where they are on her fridge shelves. Finally you will be able to see where she has put the carrots.

(You are only allowed to read out – not show – the pieces of information you have).

Apples Grapes Pineapples

Cabbage Lettuce Cherry

Carrots Oranges Potatoes

Cucumbers Apricots Sprouts

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