This activity provides students with question formation practice. Divide the class into groups of four. One person from each group thinks of something or someone for the other students to guess, for example, "a dog," or "Tom Cruise." The other three members of the group now ask this student yes / no questions to determine what it is; for example, " Is it an animal?" "Is it a big animal?" and "Does it live in the jungle?" If he can guess the thing or person within 20 questions, they win. If not, the other student wins.
This activity provides students with past simple tense practice. Arrange the class in a circle. Provide each student with a sheet of paper. Tell the students they are going to write a love story. Ask the students "What was his name?" Each student writes a sentence at the top of his piece of paper explaining what his name was, such as, "His name was Tom." Students now fold back the top of their pieces of paper so the sentence is no longer visible, and hand it to the person on their right, who should not attempt to read the sentence. Ask the student, "What was her name?" That student writes down a sentence explaining what her name was on the top of his piece of paper before folding the top back and handing the paper to the student on his right. Students continue in this manner while you ask eight more sentences, such as, "Where did they meet?" and "What did he say to her?" When the activity is finished, students read the stories aloud to the class, and you can give feedback on any mistakes.
This activity provides students with listening practice. Arrange students in a circle and hand a slip of paper to one of the students containing a sentence appropriate to the class's language level. This student reads the sentence silently and then whispers it to the student on her right who, in turn whispers it to the student on her right. Students continue in this manner until the last student, who writes the sentence he heard on the board. Often, this will contain little similarity to the original sentence.
This activity provides students with practice naming body parts and using the imperative. Ask the students to stand up and ask one student to come to the front of the class. This student performs an action and directs the other students to do the same. He might say, for example, "Simon says, 'touch your head.'" Only when the verb is preceded by "Simon says" should the other students perform the action. Students who perform the action incorrectly or perform the action when it is not preceded by "Simon says" are out and the game continues without them. Continue until only one student, the winner, remains. Restart the game with a new student directing the other students.