Here’s a new “Eat! Drink! Dance!” TPR style warm up song that features only the command versions of the verbs in the “What do you want to do?” and CD2’s “What are you doing?” songs. It makes the other two songs much easier to teach!
The best part is where the kids freeze on the word “stop” and they can’t move until the countdown has finished and the dance part comes back in. Have a try yourself, it really messes with your body!
It also makes a nice continuous curriculum thread of:
Genki Disco Warm Up -> Eat! Drink! Dance! -> What do you want to do? – > What do you want to be?
i.e. starting easy, adding little bits at a time before ending on something quite impressive.
Games & Video
Gumby has also done a great video with her kids of the “What are you doing?” song:
Over on the forum Flossy had the brilliant idea of taking this one step further and making it into a game:
1. Have some cuddly toys at the front.
2. Have the verbs mini cards at the back.
3. The kids have to pick up the mini card, say the sentence and make on of the toys do this action!
What a simple, but very cool game. Enjoy the video, or even have a go at making one with your kids!
P.S. Drew B has also sent in his Blindfold Treasure Hunt game.
This one has already proved to be a massive hit with all my 3rd graders!
Nice lively song, which should prove useful, as you say. My students have enjoyed the other warm up song and the left/right one too, so I’m sure this’ll go down well.
If I may say so, I wish you didn’t pronounce ‘dance’ like that though!
My students love Gumby’s video. The soft toy game works really well too. Thanks Drew for the blindfold game. I am reviewing directions with some students in a couple of weeks and this will work really well.
Brilliant video Gumby. Great workout Richard. Haven’t tried Drew’s game yet, sounds good.
My kids really loved making the video. It’s a great way to get them excited about English. I can see my students enjoying Flossy’s game.
Richard, your stop sign made me curious, as it is different in Japan, so I did a quick search. I hadn’t realized that the octagon was used in so many countries! Here is the wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign