COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS GAME

Brainstorm/ board race

Divide the board into two halves and the class into two teams. Tell one half of the class that
they have to write uncountable nouns on their side of the board and the other that they have to
write uncountable nouns. You can also be more specific, e.g. limiting them to foods or things
in the classroom. They then stand up in two lines in front of their halves of the board. The
person at the front of the line takes the pen and writes something in their category, with help
from their classmates (e.g. telling them the spelling) if they need it. They then pass the pen to
the person behind them and go to the back of the line. This continues until the teacher says
Stop, and the team with the most correct words in their category wins. You can also have
both teams working on the same category at the same time, or allow teams to choose their
categories.

REVIEW OF PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE- GAME

Purpose: to review the past continuous ie. "They were playing basketball".

Preparation: Either have cards with action words ready, or use your text book to point
to the actions they have studied in their book.

Method:
1) Divide the class into two teams.
2) Create a space where one team can sit in chairs together and the other team can
stand up without tables in the way.
3) Have one team sit down and close their eyes, or face the wall.
4) Monitor that eye closed/no peeking rule, perhaps deduct points for peeking.
5) Show the other team an action verb like "playing basketball".
6) That team silently acts out the action until you say FREEZE.
7) When you say FREEZE every member of the team freezes their current action and
holds it.
8) Team one can now open their eyes and see the frozen actors.
9) Each student from the seated team takes a guess at to what Team 2 was doing. "Was
she playing tennis?"HINT: Guessing should be fairly swift, poor team one is patiently
frozen, remember.
10) A successful guess gives them one point.
11) After all students guess once, point or no point, play proceeds to the next team.
12) Game ends at teacher's discretion.

TIPS: To get the game going at a good pace, use simple sentences like "She was
eating". Once the kids are into it, increase the level of difficulty by adding objects (not
physical objects, silly) to the sentences. ex. "She was eating spaghetti".