you can write on them. Have towels on standby. Alternatively, if you want your pupils’ chins to remain dry, you can use a hole-punch to make a hole and make a fishing rod from string and a paper clip. Once they have collected a selection of words, the children make their sentence. One word sentences This game has been stolen from Radio 4’s ‘I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue’. Students must keep a sentence going by adding one word each. This can be played in pairs or groups and can be played orally or written. You will by writing/saying the last word and stumping your opponent. I’ve only scratched the surface of the games that could be played to make learning grammar a little more fun. But my biggest piece of advice is to raid the toolbox of you friendly neighbourhood MFL teacher as our language colleagues would have been making this sort of thing fun for years.
▲ Linguistic mistakes often make us chuckle and there are whole sections of the web dedicated to showing the best ones, but can be hugely embarrassing and even damaging to those who make them. Image credit: http://www.artfile.ru/i.php?i=530376 used under Commercial Creative Commons License http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2013/07/12/ punctuation-mistakes-to-make-you-laugh-or-cringe/ used under Commercial Creative Commons License