Introduction

This game is perfect for a group

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of six to ten people. It lasts from ten to 15 minutes.

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Pupils interact with each other,

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which helps them to move in class and learn vocabulary.

Target group and Time

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The game can be played with kids from 5th to 7th grade. The game lasts for about 7-15

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min, but can also be for a longer time.

Learning objectives

-practice new vocabulary, concentrated on one special topic

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-understanding gestures/ the pantomime

Instructions to set up the activity

In order to prepare for the actual game, the teacher is firstly building a circle with the students by letting them all sit down in a circle. The teacher is going to ask asks questions about the pupil's plans for the summer holidays, therefore they already collect thereby collecting common vocabulary for the topic , the teacher chose chosen for the game: , in this case it is "Summer Holidays". Naturally, it is possible to focus the game on a different topic.

However, the The discussion in the circle helps the students to already get out of their comfort zonebecome involved, as the game will require afterwards. It is important that everyone in the group says something, even if this requires some students to leave their comfort zone.

After having shared the plans for the summer with the group, they get are divided into pairs of two and a pantomime game will be is played. For the different pantomime-gestures To play the game the teacher has prepared about 20 terms concerning the “summer-holidays” (or whatever topic the teacher chose). The terms are written on a piece of paper.

One pair will start and pick a piece of paper and will secretly read what is written on it. The pair will gesture or act out the gesture/ term without making any noise. The pair that will guess the gesture first, is going to pick the next paper with the gesture and act that one outguesses correctly first has the next turn. This way the game continues, so that every pair can act out more terms until the terms are finished.

Letting it run

If there is more time left and the children have already acted out all the pantomime terms, the pupils themselves can propose terms that they than have to act out. The teacher would have to can  write the words on a black board. Afterwords a pair will secretly choose chooses one of the terms to act out and the rest of the group needs guess which one of the words on the blackboard is being presented. The first pair with the right guess will continue with acting out and so on.

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