Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm games for speaking lessons english 10

CHAPTER III: SOME SUGGESTED GAMES FOR THE 10TH FORM SPEAKING LESSONS Activity 1: Noughts and Crosses for Unit 1- Task 2 While- speaking Type : Group work Aims: Talk about daily activi

CHAPTER III: SOME SUGGESTED GAMES FOR THE 10TH FORM SPEAKING LESSONS

Activity 1: Noughts and Crosses for Unit 1- Task 2 ( While-

speaking)

Type : Group work

Aims: Talk about daily activities

Teaching aids: Pictures of Task 2

Time: 10 minutes

Preparation: prepare pictures of Task 2, use magnets to hang on board

Procedure :

- Divide class into 2 teams

Team 1: Noughts Team B: Crosses

- Asks students to choose one picture in Task 2 to make a sentence about Quan’s activities

- If their sentence is correct, that picture will be marked with their Noughts ( O ) for team A or Crosses ( X ) for team B

- Do the same steps until one team has 3 continuous pictures in vertical, horizontal or in cross line will be the winner

Activity 2: Matching for Unit 2-Task 1 ( Pre- speaking )

Type : Group work

Aims: Use common expressions in making small talks.

Teaching aids: 1 big sheet of paper and 10 pieces of expressions

Time : 5 minutes

Preparation: prepare a big sheet of paper with 10 movable pieces of

expressions which are put in random , use magnets to hang on board

Starting a conversation Closing a conversation

Good morning / Hi Great I’ll see you tomorrow

Sorry, I’ve got to go Talk to you

later

Hello How are you?

Well, it’s been nice meeting you Hello What are you doing?

How’ s everything at school? Catch you later

Goodbye See you later Hi How is school?

Procedure :

- Three tables will be a group So there will be 4 groups in total

- Students will discuss in groups to put sentences to the right columns

- The fastest group can go to the board and match

- Teacher will check and give the key

Activity 3: Interview for Unit 3- Task 2 ( While- speaking )

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about people’s background

Teaching aids: interview form, magnets

Time : 10 minutes

Preparation: prepare an interview form, use magnets to hang on board

Order Iterms

Information

Good morning!

2 Date of birth

When were you born?

3 Place of birth

Where were you born?

4 Home

Where do you live?

Can you tell me about your parents?

How many brothers/ sisters do you have?

7 Primary school

What is the name of your primary school/ secondary school?

Have you ever been a leader of

9 Favourite subjects

What subjects do you like best?

10 Experience

How do you work at school?

Thank you very much!

Procedure :

- Asks tudents to work in groups of three

- Rearrange students’s seat to make them sit face to face

- Asks them to use questions in interview form to ask and answer each other

- Teacher goes around and offer help if necessary

- Teacher can choose one student to go to the board and the whole class will

interview him/ her

- Teacher encourages students to make further questions for fun

Activity 4: Survey for Unit 3- Task 2 ( While – speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about school life

Teaching aids: Handouts

Time : 15 minutes

Preparation: Prepare handouts

Order Questions Your friend Your friend

1 Which lower - secondary school did you go to?

2 What were your subjects then?

3 What was your timetable?

4 Can you tell me about the tests and

examminations at your school then?

5 What about homework?

6 What part of school life didn’t you like then?

7 What did you like best about your school then?

Procedure :

- Ask to work in groups

- Remind that one student need to ask at least 3 students in his/ her group

and it is not neccesary to ask every student all questions, then fill in the

table

- Teacher goes around for help if neccesary, collect errors

- Call some students to report

- Teacher gives feed back and correct errors

Activity 5: Guessing for Unit 5- Task 1( Pre- speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about the uses of modern inventions

Teaching aids: Nothing

Preparation: No preparation

Time : 7 minutes

Procedure:

- Divide class into 4 groups

- Ask each group to choose one modern invention

- They in turns guess the other groups’ objects by asking the question:

Is it used for + V-ing?

Is it used to + V infinitive ?

- After 3 questions being asked for each object the answer should come out Any groups who can guess correctly will get 5 points

- The group with higher point will be the winner

Activity 6: Giving advice for Unit 6- Task 2( While - speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about the seat plan on a boat trip

Teaching aids: Cards and the seat plan in text book

Time : 10 minutes

Preparation: Prepare 6 cards

Card 1: Hello My name is Mrs Andrew I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan in Chicago with my students I need to see all the students but I do not want to seat in the sundeck Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Card 2: Hello My name is Susan I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan

in Chicago with my classmates I want to be near Mary I do not want to get suburnt

Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Card 3: Hello My name is Tim I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan

in Chicago with my classmates I like to sit in the sun ad I do not want to be

by myself Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Card 4: Hello My name is John I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan

in Chicago with my classmates I don’t like air- conditioning I would like to take photos Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Card 5: Hello My name is Mary I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan

in Chicago with my classmates I often suffer from travel sickness, so I need plenty of fresh air Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Card 6: Hello My name is Sam I m going to a boat trip on Lake Michigan

in Chicago with my classmates I hane never been in a boat before I want a good view Please help me to choose a suitable seat Thank you very much!

Procedure:

- Teacher sets context for the activity: You are school consultants Some people in Tim’s class send you a seat plan and ask for help

- Ask to work in 6 groups Ask each group choose one card then discuss and give advice

- Teacher goes around for help if neccesary

- Ask each group to present

- Teacher marks the suitable seat for each person

Activity 7: Circle of common for Unit 7- Task 2( While - speaking) Type: Pair work

Aims: Talk about the main features of the mass media

Teaching aids: A big sheet of paper, magnets

Preparation: Ask each pair prepare an A4 paper, and the teacher prepare a

big sheet of paper drawing 6 pairs of big circles

Time : 10 minutes

Procedure:

- Ask to work in pairs Each pair will talk about the typical

features as well as the common features of two types of the mass media Then

with their typical features, students will write in 2 different circles, with the same ones , students will write in the intersection

- The fastest pairs will be the winner

- Teacher can give feedback by asking the winner pairs to write their doing

on board and correct

TIVI RADIO TV BOOKS

TV INTERNET RADIO BOOK BOOKS

RADIO INTERNET BOOK

INTERNET

Activity 8: Drawing and Matching for Unit 8- Task 1( Pre- speaking) Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about plans to improve life of a village and their possible results Teaching aids: Some pieces of paper

Preparation: Prepare some sentences written on pieces of paper

Sentence 1: Widen the road

Sentence 2: Raise and resurface the roads

Sentence 3: Build a medical centre

Sentence 4: Build a football ground

Sentence 5: Grow cash crops

Sentence 6: Build a bridge over the canal

Sentence 7: Build a new school

Time : 7 minutes

Procedure:

- Divide class into 2 groups

- Ask each groups choose 1 student to the board to take one piece of paper from teacher , then try to draw what is in the paper without saying anything

- One of the two groups very quickly choose one possible result and read out loud If they are right they will get 1 point

- Do the same steps until all sentences are drawn and all possible results are read out loud

- The winner is the one with higher points

Activity 9: Story In A Bag for Unit 9 -Task 2 and Task 3 ( While speaking )

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about problems and give out solutions

Teaching aids: 6 small bags ( or envelopes)

Preparation: Write words relevant to the topic in Task 2 in some pieces of

paper Each piece has one word and each group has one series of relevant words

Series 1: beaches, plastic bags, glass, cigarette butts

Series 2: whales, sharks, food, medicine, products

Series 3: explosives, catch, fish, sea animals

Series 4: oil, spill, tankers

Time : From 15 to 18 minutes

Procedure:

- Divide class into 6 groups Each group will be delivered with one bag containing words

- Each group find one group leader so that every member will work more effectively

- They have one minute to think about some threats to the environment basing on their series of words Then discuss about the bad results and give some solutions

- After 10 or 12 minutes, teacher asks one student in each group reports The other students will listen, compare and take notes

Activity 10: Debate for Unit 10- Task 3 ( While - speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims: Talk about the new kind of zoo in comparison to the old one

Teaching aids: Nothing

Preparation: No preparation

Time : 10 minutes

Procedure:

- Divide class into 2 groups

Group 1: Choose the new kind of zoo

Group 2: Choose the old kind of zoo

- Teacher sets a context like this: She is a millionaire She wants to invest a big amount of money in building a zoo But she hasn’t decided what kinds

of zoo to be built yet Now try to convince her to invest in your choice

- Two groups will try to persuade teacher by talking about the advantages of their zoo and disadvantages of the others’

- Teacher will finally decide which group speak better to invest money

Activity 11: Chain story for Unit 11- Task 3 ( While - speaking)

Type: Pair work and whole class

Aims: Tell a story about an excursion

Teaching aids: Handouts

Preparation: Prepare handouts: one for Nga and the other for Nga’s friend

Nga’s friend Nga

- Ask what Nga did last Saturday

- Ask about the means of transport Nga’s

class used to go to Huong Pagoda

- Ask about food and drinks Nga’s class

- Answer

- Answer and express regrets

- Answer and express regrets

- Ask about the duration of the excursion

- Ask what they did in Huong Pagoda

- End up the conversation

- Answer and express regrets

- Tell what they did and express regrets

Time : 12 minutes

Procedure:

- Ask to work in pairs first and give each pair 2 handouts: one for Nga and the other for Nga’s friend

- Each pair has to make a conversation based on the information in the

handouts

- After 6 to 8 minutes, call on students to make a story about Nga’s

excursion Each student talks only one sentence The other takes turn and continues the story to the end pf the excursion story If time is spare, make another story about Nga’s excursion

Activity 12: Interview for Unit 12- Task 2 ( While - speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims: Ask and answer about music taste

Teaching aids: Pieces of paper

Time: 12 minutes

Preparation: Prepare some pieces of interview paper for all students :

Partner 1 Partner 2

Kind of music Jazz

Reason for listening to

music

Favourite band/ musician

Favourite song/ piece of

music

When to listen to music

Procedure:

- Divide class into small groups of three One of them will be a journalist

who wants to interview high school students about their music taste The

journalist has to ask 2 students some questions and fill in the table for his/ her later article

- Students can change the role if time permits

- After 8 minutes of interviewing, the teacher calls on some groups to make presentations on what they have done in their group

- Teacher give comments and corrects errors

Activity 13: Film Reporter for Unit 13- Task 4 ( While- speaking) Type: Group work

Aims : Talk about the film you have ever seen

Teaching aids: One big sheet of paper with questions about films

Time : 10 minutes

Preparation: One big sheet of paper with questions about films

QUESTIONS

1 where did you see it?

2 What kind of film is it?

3 What is it about?

4 Who is/ are the main character(s)?

5 How do you feel about it?

6 Why do you prefer it to other films?

Procedure:

- Divide class into 6 groups Each group will choose a film reporter This student will go to the board The others will discuss about films for him to guess

- After 2 minutes the film reporter will guess the films by asking questions For example :

Reporter : where did you see it?

Player 1 : On T.V

Reporter : What kind of film is it?

Player 2 : Tragic love story

Reporter: What is it about?

Player 3 : It is about the sinking of a luxury liner on its first voyage across

the Atlantic Ocean

Reporter: Who is/ are the main character(s)?

Player 4: Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukuter

Reporter: How do you feel about it?

Player 5: It's very exciting and romantic

Reporter: Why do you prefer it to other films?

Player 6: I like the main actor

- Then the film reporter will tell the whole class what films they are

- Do the same steps with the others groups

- Finally, teacher choose some representatives from some groups to talk about their favourite film

Activity 14: Quiz for Unit 14- Task 1 ( While- speaking)

Type: Group work

Aims : Talk about football teams

Teaching aids: Pictures, cards

Preparation: Prepare some questions about the football teams and their

pictures, then write questions on different cards

Card 1: How many times has Italy won the trophy up to the World Cup 2006?

Card 2: Who was the captain of the French national team in the World Cup 2006?

Card 3: What was the score of the World Cup 2006 final?

Card 4: What place did Germany hold in the World Cup 2006?

Card 5: Who was the head coach of the German team in the World Cup 2006?

Card 6: What nationality was the top scorer in the World Cup 2006?

Card 7: Who was the captain of the English national football team in the World Cup 2006?

Card 8: Who beat English in the World Cup 2006 quarter final ?

Procedure:

- Hang on the pictures of four football teams on the board and ask students

names of these teams

- Divide class into small teams of 5 students and introduce the quiz

- Distribute the cards to different groups and ask them to place the cards face down on the desk

- Then in their own groups, students take turn to pick any card and answer the question written on it If it is correct, it should be put aside If not, it can

be pick up again and answer by another students

- Finally teacher collects the answer of the groups

- Call some students to talk about the teams using the information they gain via the quiz

- Which groups have more right answers will be the winner

Activity 15: Searching game for Unit 15- Task 4 (Post - speaking) Type: Whole class

Aims : Ask and answer about the preferences s regard to where to live and

give reasons to back up their opinions

Teaching aids: copies of tables

Preparation: make copies for the table below:

Time: 10 minutes

SURVEY: WHICH CITY DO YOU PREFER?

Opinion

Name

Prefer New York Prefer Lon Don Why

Procedure: