Lines from Spain has just sent in this body parts review game – you can use it with Doctor, Doctor or the Make a Face lessons.
- Print out flashcards of different parts of the body, For instance I have 20 copies of arms, 19 copies of legs,18 copies of heads,17copies of feet, 16 copies of hands, 15 copies of eyes….
- Then I put them on the floor.
- Then I turn on the music.
- The kids move and dance with the music.
- When I stop the music, the kids ask today’s question (e.g. “Are you OK?“) and I say the part of the body
- If I say “My ARM hurts” every child searches for a (flashcard!) arm to stand on.
- I turn on the music again.
- And then I say LEGS, the pupils look for the legs to put their feet on.
- But if I have 20 pupils, there are only 19 legs, so one pupil is out of the game!
- He/she is going to help me as teacher to say the next word, or to turn on/off the tape till we have one champion.
- Keep going till there is only 1 child left!
- Finally, the teacher asks each student to pick up different parts of the body ( Richard pick up the eyes please, Sofía pick up the ears please…) and you can reuse the same copies for years.
My students also have good marks in English in Primary and the first year in secondary School. The guys love it and the most important thing, they learn the parts of the body and they want to go on playing. I believe a lot in songs, games and having fun when the students learn.
Thanks Lines, what do you guys think?
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the activity is nice. what I usually do is: chairs are ina circle and I place a different flash card on each chair, then the music starts and students dance around the chairs, when the music stops they sit (on the flash card) and I go asking one by one at random “what’s the matter?” “my leg hurts” or whatever vocabulary I am need to review. but there is always a chair for every one. it works great and students love it.
cool simple game. It gave me an idea to use it in a game with no flashcards required.
As above, pre-teach body vocab. Get the kids to move around to the music. Stop the music. The Kids make pairs. They ask; “Are you OK?”. You say; “my nose hurts” etc, and the kids have to race to touch their nose. The slower one is out. Continue a few times and give points for the last few.
I love this Dancing Chairs game without chairs. Brillant idea!! It’s always such a hassle with the chairs. I love the idea of the flashcards, it creates a lot more space in the classroom and probably less accidents.
I would also do it with food flashcards (What do you like?) and weather flashcards (How’s the weather?).
Great idea! I would also like to try it with the drinks flashcards (I’m thirsty. Would you like a drink). I’m only a little afraid that the kids might slip on the laminated cards so maybe I will not laminate them but print new ones every time (it’s no big effort, is it)
Hello to everydody and thak you Richard because when you write something it is much better and nicer.
When I do it ( a lot of times and with different vocabulary, because my pupils love it a lot), I use the same cards till they are very dirty, I never laminate these ones, the pupils pick them up, because I ask for them. When they are in my folder I say O.K we need to wash our hands. Please whash them and me too. If it is summer we take off our shoes but in winter it’s very cold to do this in my city.
And the ESU award next year must be for you.
I’m sorry, but this year my pupils prefer Richard´s DVDs, and Richard’s songs.