Racing to English

Mime and guess

TEACHERS NOTES

CONTENTS

• Four pages of verb cards, for example

swimming

flying

Language learning objectives:
Language function	Naming actions
Sentence structure	Are you XXXing?
Vocabulary	Verbs, for example flying, falling, hopping

PREPARATION

• Cut the pages up into individual cards.

• Take ONE page of cards at a time
  (page 1 is easier than page 2, page 2 is easier than page 3 and so on).

This activity can be used after all the action photosets have been introduced.

HOW TO PLAY

Learners take it in turns to take a card and mime the action on the card for others to guess.

NOTE

Give praise both for good miming and good guessing.




Mime and guess Set 1

walking	crying	running	reading
sleeping	writing	jumping	eating
sitting down	standing up	drinking	kicking
fighting	throwing	catching	driving

Mime and guess Set 2

swimming	flying	brushing your hair	cutting
talking	shouting	waking up	pouring a drink
shaving	cooking	looking	listening
washing your face	cleaning your teeth	falling down	climbing

Mime and guess Set 3

opening a door	closing a door	knocking on a door	hitting
switching a light on	turning a tap on	switching a light off	turning a tap off
paying money	hopping	lifting something	clapping
playing a piano	drawing	phoning	pointing

Mime and guess Set 4

blinking	winking	thinking	drowning
punching	scratching	licking	dressing
putting on make-up	sewing	counting	slapping
blowing your nose	sniffing	biting	hammering

Racing to English

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