First we'll brainstorm to find out how much they know about it, and to refresh their memory. Then we'll watch this video, which introduces some idioms about FEAR.
Next we'll play the board game that reinforces these and other idioms and vocabulary items re death, devils, etc.
There are "DEATH" cards and "DEVIL" cards, each of which contains an idiom or proverb using the words dead (or a derivative thereof) or devil. A question is asked re its meaning, and the answer is included in the multiple choice. This task is necessary if the player has landed on a ghost or grave (DEATH), or on a vampire or witch (DEVIL).
If they land on a jack o' lantern.they must create sentences using certain words from a vocabulary list.
After the winner has been declared and the game is over, we go on to conversation cards. Each student takes a card and has a few minutes to think of a story to tell (real or imagined) regarding fears, vampires, witches, etc.
I have a game to teach them to say 'I am afraid of', and 'I am afraid to', you'll notice they have trouble with that. I can post it here if you like.
ReplyDeleteHow did it go? Did you both use this lesson? Can you upload the file with the 'DEATH' and 'DEVIL' cards?
ReplyDeleteThis game looks interesting.How many can play at one time?
ReplyDeleteNever saw these comments till now...a little bit late.
ReplyDeleteI'll see about uploading the 'death' and 'devil' cards.
As far as how many can play at once- as nearly as I recall, we had 10 to 12 playing and it worked fine.
Trude- Links to the 'death' / 'devil' cards are in this post: http://englishteacher-alleykat.blogspot.com/2014/11/halloween-lesson.html
ReplyDeleteI really don't know how to upload the files with the actual cards... I can alter margins, size, etc later on the google docs files but not tonight! Tired! ;)