2. Anagram Keyword Games At its most simple level, all this activity is made from are two blocks of text – one is an anagram of a keyword, and one is the correct answer. I have then drawn two rectangles and filled them in. These are then used to cover the two words. In this example I have added text to the two boxes so I can remember which is the anagram and which is the answer.
3. Drag and Drop 1 – matching A very simple activity to use at different times in a lesson to check on understanding, these are simply text boxes which then need to be matched. To speed things up, I created one blue box and one yellow box using the shapes tool and then added text. I then cloned these boxes several times (or copy/paste) to get many identical boxes. Then change the text in each one. The boxes could contain words and their definitions, beginnings and ends of sentences, dates and events, words in one language and their corresponding word in English. The boxes can be dragged together to match up. Or lines can be drawn to pair them up. As an extension – have a whole load of different words in boxes for sentence rearranging or fridge magnet poetry.
4. Drag and Drop 2 – Sequencing This is the same as the example above, only that the boxes are larger and contain a sentence or phrase. The activity could be to put these sentences into the correct order either based on a story or a set of events. These could also be statements that the pupils need to rank into order of importance, or strongly agree and strongly disagree where there may not be correct answer as such, but acts as a stimulus for discussion.
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