Today we have a very nice game, in fact it’s one of my favourites, for use with the new Can you kick? song.
It’s basically just a modified version of the Do you have..? game, but it’s one of the easiest ways to get the kids practising “Can you…?”.
You do need a lot of mini cards for this theme, so if your budget won’t stretch to colour print outs, the kids are usually just as happy with black and white ones that they can colour themselves. It’s great colour and clothes practice ( e.g. what colour shall we make the shirts? What about the shorts?) Plus the best thing is the kids can take the cards away with them and use them for games in their lunch time. Of course sometimes this does descend into their own language, but you’d be surprised at how many of them continue to play in English – and they get so proud that they can!
One other great idea with pair work type activities is to let the kids come to the front at any time and check out how to say any of the words on the computer. They try to get as close as possible to the pronunciation and it’s also good for you to see just which words they are finding tough, and which ones are easy. Although actually in this theme pretty much all the words are easy!
Have a try at the Can you kick? Game.
