If you’ve been reading me for some time you’ll probably have guessed
that I favour kinesthetic learning.The activities where students take an active part and enjoy while learning are my favourite.I like them getting up and moving around the classroom and I even welcome the noise because they are using English.
And you cannot even begin to imagine how proud I feel when I see that they have been able to overcome their natural shyness at making mistakes and just concentrate on using the language and having fun.
These are two of my favourite activities to orally practise present continuous. Hilarious, trust me!
♥MIMING
I divided the class into two groups Group A and Group B; one student from Group A comes up to the front of the class and is given a card with a sentence containing the Present Continuous, like for example, I am watching TV. The student has to mime this activity and the members of his group have to guess, exactly, the same words written on the card. The student is given one minute to mimic as many sentences as possible.
Suggestions
- I’m cleaning the house
- He’s cooking an egg
- She is dancing in the disco
- I am playing the guitar
- He is drinking a coke
- He is reading a novel
- I am thinking about my teacher
- My mother is working now
- He is walking to school
- He is painting the house
- I am studying History
- I am not sleeping
- I am playing tennis now
- She is reading a newspaper
- She is eating chocolate
- I am riding a blue bicycle
♥DESCRIPTION OF A PHOTO
For this activity, the students are sitting in pairs, one student facing the board and the other with his back to the board. Using the OHP, a picture of people performing something is displayed. Now, the person seeing the picture has to describe it in as much detail as possible and the other person has to draw the picture. Allow them four or five minutes and then choose the best picture. Below are two of the pictures that I used:
