Telephone Relay
When?
This is a special activity that would only happen occasionally, such as at the end of a unit or on a rainy day.
How?
Materials?
Why?
This activity requires listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is fun, and it is not clear who made the mistake if one was made.
Resources:
This activity from http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/esl-games-activities/sentence-relay-game-85/
This is a special activity that would only happen occasionally, such as at the end of a unit or on a rainy day.
How?
- Divide the class into 2 or more teams of equal number of players. Line the teams up into rows.
- Provide a table and chair for the FIRST student of each row (one per team). These students will be the WRITERS.
- Put a pencil and paper on their desks.
- Other students may stand or be seated (lined up chairs work well) The teacher sits at the front of the lines.
- Call one student from the end of each row to you. These students will be the READERS.
- The readers read the teachers card with the pre-written review sentence. When the teacher says go, the reader returns to the end of the line and whispers it to the last person. They pass the sentence along the row by whispering until the student at the table writes it down.
- When the writer is finished she/he runs to the teacher with the paper.
- If the sentence is perfect they get a point.
- If the sentence is not perfect, they return to the table.
- Recall the READER, point out the error, let them whisper the sentence all over again.
- The first team to reproduce your sentence perfectly gets the point.
Materials?
- Paper, pencils, desks
Why?
This activity requires listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is fun, and it is not clear who made the mistake if one was made.
Resources:
This activity from http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/esl-games-activities/sentence-relay-game-85/