Adjectives around the classroom [Adult Learners] [Young Learners]

Simple but powerful activity for lower levels.

Have your students come up with a bunch of adjectives in pairs. Have them write the adjectives down on bits of paper. Collect the pieces of paper and put them all together in the middle of the classroom, on a desk. Throw in a few you'd like your students to learn or practise more. It doesn't matter if there are doubles.

Ask your students to take each an adjective and stick it (with blue-tac) to something in the classroom that could be described using that adjective. This works best if you've got some posters around (alternatively, bring in magazines). Why not, encourage them to stick adjectives on other students as well.

At the end of the activity, ask them to find a combination of adjective+thing that they agree with and one they don't agree with.

Answers on your back [Sp/Writing] [Young Learners]

So your teenagers need to practise question formation and answers? Give them some words or have them guess while you slowly spell them. E.g. S-C-H... Kids: School! Once they have a bunch of words tell them they have three minutes to come up with as many questions as possible for their friends, with those words in them.

Once the time is up stop them and see who got the most. Now have them stand and stick a large sheet of paper on their backs (one for each student), then ask them to mingle around the room and ask each other questions. But!! Tell them that they should NOT answer by speaking, but by secretly writing their answers on the back of the person who's asked them.

At the end of the activity students look at their sheets and guess who wrote what. This is good for revision and correction and a great opportunity for feedback on common mistakes, because it feels like a game rather than like a feedback activity.