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When the Olympics come round they can be a great theme to base your lessons
on. Here are some ideas.
*Do the "Grand Prix" game ( http://www.genkienglish.net/GrandPrix.htm
), but have print outs of some marathon runners as the game pieces (
make the heads bigger than the bodies for extra effect). You could even
have that nutter guy run on and push a player back if they get a
question badly wrong!
*For kids
who can read:
Print out a medals table ( see the official site) and give it to the kids
in groups. Then you ask questions like " How many silver medals did
China get?" . First team to answer wins. Numbers practice plus reading
practice ( even if they've never seen the countries written before they
can probably work them out).
*Medals Interview Game ( lots of prep but a good
game I think!)
1. Choose 6 of the top medal winning countries.
2. Put
the kids into 6 groups
3. Assign each group a country.
4. Give each kid
their own country's medal tally ( e.g. 2 golds, one bronze etc.)
5. Make "flag hats" for the kids, so they are wearing their country's
flag on their head. ( just print out the flag as A4 and attach some shoelaces
to tie it around the head).
6. Each kid also has a sheet that lists all 6 countries
down the left and has "gold, silver, bronze" along the top.
7. The kids have
to find one person from each country and interview them i.e. "How medals did you
get?". The other person answers.
8. You then write this number of medals
down on your sheet.
9. When you've interviewed someone from each country
you've won!
You could also increase the number of countries, e.g. the
top 30 countries so that everyone has to speak to everyone else! Maybe a little
too chaotic though!
*A basic colours lesson but add in
"Bronze, silver, gold"
* For sports names practice, print out the faces of the winners of all
the your country's medals and put them on the board, but with the picture
facing the board so the kids can't see. Just like the "jeopardy game"
( http://www.genkienglish.net/Jeopardy.htm ) the kids choose either "gold, silver or bronze" and a number.
You turn that person's card over, all the class asks "What sport do
you play?" and the kid ( or team ) who chose the card has to answer
what sport it is they play. Great for "I play ...(ball game)"
vs. " I do ... ( other sports).
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