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My Favorite Games

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
Teacher Marcos
PACKAGE
Aim: The objective of this games is “warm-up” that means you should used it at the
         beginning or end of the class, just to have fun.
Level: All
Time: 15 minutes
Material used : Tape recorder, a box packaged, strings, adhesive and a lot of papers, a song.
Procedures: Everybody has to be sat in circle even the teacher , the song plays and the packaged box is passed hands by hands in circle. When the song stops the person who is with the box has to begin opening it. The music is played again and box is again put in circle. The last person to open it is the winner and the prize is a chocolate inside of the box.
The game has to be played as quick as possible, in order to be funny and dynamic.
( From the Manuel of Techinques of Dynamic of Group by Celson Antunes - Vozes )

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
RACHEL AND JOSEPH
Aim: The objective of this games is “warm-up” that means you should used it at the
         beginning or end of the class, just to have fun..
Level : All
Time: 10 minutes
Material: Blindfold
Procedure : This is one of the oldest game used in classroom, meeting, parties, etc., and is played with two people in the middle of a circel formed by the students holding hands and one of this student is blindfolded. The one with the blindfold a boy a girl should call the name of the others who has to find-out his or her partner. Everything is done inside the circle. Instead   of calling his friend name the person can use a bell and the other person, the blind folder ,should catch him or her
More the one pair should play this game, but remember you should first explain the game first before
playing.
( From the Manuel of Techinques of Dynamic of Group by Celson Antunes - Vozes )

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
My Friend's best quality
Aim : Practice the adjectives
Level : All
Time : 15 minutes
Material : A sheet of paper
Procedure : The teacher gives the students a sheet of paper and ask them to write the quality that best fit their friends from the right. They don't have to write their names, neither their friends' names, then they fold their papers and the teacher c ollects their them. These papers will set on a chair in the middle of   the classroom. The teacher asks them to stand-up, pick up one of those papers and sit down again, after that the teacher   asks them to open their papers, read it sillently, stand up and give that paper for the friend that best fit what is written in it. The students after receiving the paper have to read it to the whole class and comment it.
At the end everybody has to make a oral comment about the exercise.
( From the Manuel of Techinques of Dynamic of Group by Celson Antunes - Vozes )

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
A BOX OF SURPRISES
Aim : Practice vocabulary and the lesson studied
Level : All
Time : 20
Material : A good song and a box
Procedure :
The teacher selects the sobject, e.g., sports, irregular verbs, etc., cut in strip of paper and put them
in the box. The students should be in circle, then a song is played and the box begins to run hands
by hands . The teacher stops the song and the student who is with the box has to open it, pick   up
the paper and do what is written in the paper, e.g., what's the past participle of... Then song begins
again and the box runs till the end of the game. The game finish when all the papers have been read.

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
WHAT ???
Aim : "Wh" questions
Level : All
Material : None
Time : 20 minutes
Procedure : This is a very easy and good game to practice "WH". The students have to work in pairs or in group and one student asks questions the other one has to answer it using numbers. The
student who uses words in his answers lose the game and starts asking questions.
At end of the game ask the class to comment about it.

WARM-UP ( My students loved this game )
Like doing, don't like doing, don't mind doing, hate doing.
Aim: Practice the gerund
Level : All
Time : 20 minutes
Material : A sheet of paper
Procedure : Give each student a loose piece of paper and ask them to write down on thing they love doing, one thing they hate doing and one thing they don't mind doing. You should also take
part in the game. You should not write your name.You collect the papers , mix them up and give
them to the students. The students have to read it to the whole class which should identify the person..

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