Broken Hearts Game
This game is traditionally used in Junior High for sentence practice, but
it also makes a great review game for elementary school!
Preparation
1. Prepare several A4 sheets of paper, each with the outline of a large
heart
NEW: Regular reader Gaz has sent in his own set of 40 worksheets for this
game!
http://www.genkienglish.net/clipart/BrokenHeartsGaz.zip Enjoy!
2. Tear up the heart into 4 or 5 equal parts.
3. On each part of one sheet draw ( or glue) a picture related to the theme
you are studying. Each part should have a different picture. e.g. one could
be a pig, another a cow etc. For the Genki English themes, check out the
mini-cards.
4. Do another sheet, this time with pictures from a different theme.
5. Do enough sheets with enough different themes so every kid can have
one piece of heart.
6. Put all the pieces in a bag or container.
The Game
1. Each kid comes to the front and picks a piece of heart. They don't look
at it yet!
2. When everyone has their pieces you shout "go"
3. The kids then go around trying to find the other pieces of their heart.
They are not allowed to show other people their hearts yet, only to speak
English!
4. When they find all the people who have the rest of the pieces of their
heart ( as they all have words in the same topic) they sit down in a group,
raise their hands and say "Finished!"
5. The quickest team wins
Very simple, but very effective. You can change the target language to
either be very easy e.g. simply saying "dog", or better still
something like "I have a dog" or the current target language
such as "I like dogs" etc. etc.
Enjoy!
NEW: Regular reader Gaz has sent in his own set of 40 worksheets for this
game!
http://www.genkienglish.net/clipart/BrokenHeartsGaz.zip Enjoy!
Readers' Comments
This worked great with my 1st year jr. high students AND 3 of their mothers
who came that day for "Open School Day!" A few students
were absent, so I asked if they would play. They agreed, so I gave
them a piece of a heart and helped them with the language for it.
I had printed out four hearts on the computer with color pictures of vocab
we had practiced (weather, time, subjects and months). I cut them out and glued them onto red construction paper (from
100 yen shop). Then I laminated them and cut them out with a little
border to keep them from pulling apart. After the students had found
the others with "their heart", they put it together (some on
the red side so it looked more like a real heart!). The fastest team
won. Fun!! Thanks!!
Julie
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