«кто знает английский лучше…»

We use activities and games in the foreign language classroom because they enhance language learning in a way that students don’t really feel that they are really studying. It is learning through fun! So, let’s use some of the games that inform us who knows English better.

So, let’s start. The first task is to pronounce some tongue-twisters.

1. A big black bug bit a big black bear,

Made the big black bear bleed blood.

(Большой черный жук укусил большого черного медведя

Заставил большого черного медведя истекать кровью).

I sleet the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I slit.

(Я разрезал простыню, простыню я разрезал на длинные куски,

И на разрезанной простыне я сижу).

If two witches were watching two watches

Which witch would watch which watch?

(Если бы две ведьмы смотрели на двое часов,

То которая из ведьма смотрела бы на какие часы?)

How many cookies could I a good cook cook

If a good cook could cook cookies?

(Сколько печенья мог бы испечь хороший повар,

Если бы хороший повар умел печь печенье?)

1. This is a simple vocabulary game.

Students have to fill each column with a vocabulary that begins with the letter and pertains to the category.

“flat” “family”

A A

B B

C C

. .

. .

1. The “coffeepot” game

One student is sent out the class and the remaining students choose a simple verb (“walk”, “eat”, “dance”). The student that is outside then returns and has to find out which is the “mystery” verb by asking yes-no questions to the other students. The word “coffeepot” is provided to substitute the verb. The student then asks: “Do you coffeepot every day?” “Do you coffeepot with your legs?” until he finds out which the mystery verb is.

1. All the students are standing. The teacher starts the games by saying a word, such as “Hotel”. Students continue this topic. For ex: “Bed”, “Room”, “Service”, “Food”, “Restaurant”, “Chinese”. Any association is ok. If the student can’t answer he must sit down. The last student who is standing is the winner.

So, let’s have a rest. Now, we will tell you some short funny stories.

Peter: I don’t understand why we study English.

Father: It is because half of the world speaks English.

Peter: Well, isn’t that enough?

Poet: Have you got my books of poems?

Lady: Oh, yes, I have. It is lovely! I wonder where it is…

Lady’s little son: It is under the leg of the table, Mummy.

Bessie is a little girl. She is only five. She does not go to school and, of course, she does not know how to read and write. But her sister Mary is a schoolgirl. She is ten. One day Mary sees her little sister at the table with a pen in her hand and some paper in front of her. “What are you doing Bessie?” she says. Bessie answers: “I am writing a letter to my friend Kitty”. “But you don’t know how to write”, says her sister. “Well”, says Bessie, “it doesn’t matter, because Kitty does not know how to read”.

Now, I want to tell you about SPOONERISMS. The word “spoonerism” comes from William Archibald Spooner who was famous for making verbal slips. Spoonerisms are words are phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped. This happens accidentally in slips of the tongue. Having read the spoonerisms given below, train your imagination and make up your own spoonerisms:

A lack of pies (A pack of lies). Недостаток пирогов (сплошная ложь)

Wave the sails (Save the whales). Поднимите паруса (спасите китов)

Cat flap (Flat cap). Кошачье длинное ухо (плоский колпачок)

So, let’s continue…

1. Divide into two groups. Then I give you a statement beginning with “Do you believe that?”. The winner is the team that takes more right answers. You should your opinion using the words from the list below.

The list:

As far as I know…

Well, it seems…

I suggest…

To start with…

I suppose…

I mean…

I think…

I must confess…

I must disappoint you…

I believe…

In fact…

Actually…

No wonder…

To tell the truth…

Frankly speaking…

The point is…

I bet…

I hope…

If I’m not mistaken…

I am afraid…

They say…

Fortunately…

Unfortunately…

To my mind…

I guess…

As for me…

1. an insect is afraid of pain when someone is killing it?
2. an expression “to grin like a Cheshire cat” which means “to smile broadly” appeared in Cheshire because people sold cheese in shape of smiling cat?
3. children who were brought up by animals can become normal human beings?
4. animals can cure people?
5. the snake in the emblem of medicine – around a bowl – is poison?
6. worms are useful creatures?
7. rabbits can be dangerous animals?
8. for last 400 years only 5 species of mammals and 10 species of birds have disappeared forever?

1. Below you can see 26 questions with four variants of answers. The students

who first gives a right answer puts down the letter into his copybook. The winner is the person who has more letters than the other. Pay attention that all the questions are in the Russian language.

1. В каком из этих слов спряталась ошибка?

an apple some ice-cream

a table a butter

1. Какой порядковый номер буквы «L» в англ. алфавите?

15 12

11 9

1. Каким вино не может быть?

red wet

dry strong

1. Что вы произнесете, толкнув нечаянно толкнув человека?

excuse me I don’t care

welcome! Sorry

1. Без чего нельзя жить в доме?

without a door without a window

without a cellar without an attic

1. В каком наклонении произносится фраза“Don’t come in!”

сослагательном повелительном

уклонительном провоцирующим

1. Закончите пословицу “First think then…”

drink bring

say pay

1. Что из этого не относится к мясным продуктам?

beef chop

bacon mushroom

1. В какой из этих стран английский не является государственным языком?

England the USA

Canada Mexico

1. Что означает слово“generation”?

поклонение генеральный

поколение это слово из рекламы ничего не означает

1. Какой фразы никогда не произнесет официант?

Can I help you? We have a rich choice of drinks

What would you like to order? You must order this delicious soup

1. Какое слово наиболее точно отражает “рассказывать”?

say tell

speak talk

1. Какое из этих слов является лишним, согласно одному

грамматическому правилу?

child girl

man foot

1. Где можно пообедать дешевле всего?

at a restaurant at home

at your friend’s house at a hotel

• Какое их этих произведений написал Теодор Драйзер?

Brother Tom Sister Carry

Uncle Ben Fahter-in-law John

1. Какой из этих глаголов нельзя употреблять во временах группы

Continuous

to look to listen

to play to know

1. Что носят шотландцы в качестве национальной одежды?

shorts shits

T-shirts skirts

1. Что едят англичане на Рождество?

turkey rabbit

duck chicken

1. Отелло задушил свою жену, потому что…

he loved her very much he was jealous

he was a bad man he hated her

1. В каком фильме сыграл звездный дуэт Николас Кейдж и Джон

Траволта?

Face on Face off

Face up Face down

1. В России милиционеров называют «ментами», в Америке «копами», а в Англии?

Bobby Johnny

Jimmy George

1. Когда закончилась в США Война за Независимость?

почти 500 лет назад почти 50 лет назад

почти 200 лет назад еще не закончилась

1. В каком времени следует использовать фразу «Студенты сдают экзамен. Не входить!»?

Present Simple Present Perfect

Present Continuous Future Simple

1. Какая страна подарила США Статую Свободы?

France Germany

Italy Canada

1. Какая страна является родиной картофеля?

England the USA

New Zealand Australia

1. Что означает слово “salt” на сленге?

слишком красивый слишком жалкий

слишком дорогой слишком скучный

1. These riddles are not usual ones. They demand your mind to be smart, careful and not too quick.

A big German and a little German are walking in the street. The little German is the big German’s son, but the big German in not the little German’s father. Who is he?

Three girls walked to school under one umbrella. Why didn’t any of them get wet?

A person looked at a portrait and said: “I have no sisters and brothers. But the man in the portrait is my father’s son.” Who was he?

What is there between a town and a country?