Hello!

Сегодня я работала с двумя группами. Первая группа Challenges, где учатся дети от 8 до 11 лет. С некоторыми детьми я работаю второй год, но также в группе есть и новички – дети, которые только в этом году присоединились (и продолжают присоединяться) к нам. Основной состав группы – 6 человек, из которых трое уже второй год изучают английский в нашем центре.

So my lesson today was about classroom objects – we were revising last year's knowledge. Also we revised the countries and nationalities vocab and we played with prepositions of place. 

I don't want to be boring during the lesson, so I took a ball and stick the names of the countries on it. I throw a ball to one of my students and they pick a country and they have to tell its nationality; e.g. UK – British, Italy – Italian, etc. Then the student throws that ball to another one and so the game goes on. 

How do we play with classroom objects? We played 3 different games!

1. I name the classroom object and they have to touch it. It can be a competition (check who is faster), but I prefer my students just to move around the classroom. They have fun!
2. I keep a word of an object in my mind and they have to guess it using questions like “is it on the wall?” or “is it next to the window?”. They really like to read my mind!
3. It's kind of “snowball” game. First student starts with “there are 6 chairs in our classroom”, the next one says “there are 6 chairs and 2 big desks in our classroom”. Each student has to continue and I finish this activity by repeating all that they have said and adding my own object.

We did some more activities with naming classroom objects, but I want to mention one more about prepositions of place. I like moving my students. So I tell them “listen to me and do what I say”. And I start “under the table”, and the move under the table. “Behind the door” – and they go out of class. “In the classroom” – they come in. that way we revise propositions of place.

You can check your knowledge of classroom objects and/or prepositions of place.

Enjoy! Anna K.