• Put the cards face down.
• Students turn the cards over trying to match images to words.
• If they find the match, they keep it. If not, another student tries to.
• The student who makes more matches wins.

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• Show a plastic animal or insect and express your own preferences.
• Provide your students with the animals and ask them to say aloud their own preferences.

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• Write a dialogue on the whiteboard and drill it.
• Form teams.
• Establish turns.
• Each team has to read the dialogue aloud.
• Before reading the dialogue for the second time, erase one or two words from it. Note: any student can open the notebook or write the dialogue
• They have to read the dialogue as if any word were erased.
• Repeat the procedure until the full dialogue is erased.
• The team which repeats the dialogue in the better way wins.

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• It could be played with five students at a time.
• Provide each student with a fly swatter.
• Put the cards face up on a table or around the clssroom.
• You are going to say a word which describes the image of a flash card. You can also say sentences, questions, phrases, or definitions related to the flash card, it's up to you.
• Students have to hit the flash card related to the word, phrase, sentence, question, etc. that you are mentioning of.
• The first student who hits the card wins it.
• The final winner is that one who has collected more cards at the end of the game.

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• Stick a cardboard on each corner of the classroom.
• Form 4 teams.
• Write a heading on each cardboard (sports, kinds of music, types of movies, food).
• Each team goes to a corner.
• Working in teams, students have to write sport names, types of music, types of movies, or food on the cardboard, depending on the corner they are working on
• After few minutes, teams shift corners and write on the cardboard, depending on the headline, until they have passed for all the corners.
• At the end, check written voacabulary and correct mistakes if necessary and ask students to write it down on their notebooks.

Programa Binacional de Educación Migrante.

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6.-5 THINGS PRESENTATION

Function: Expressing preferences, likes and dislikes.

Preparation: After seeing questions/phrases: like, hate, love.

Material: 5 objects brought to class by each student.

Procedure:

• Each student passes to the front of the class and showes an object at the same time that says something about the object (why he likes it, or doesn't).
• A sentence, at least, has to be said for each object.
• Example: I like soccer (showing a ball).
• A lot of things could be included, such as : fruits, vegetables, sport gear, etc.

Submitted by teacher Irma Caballero del CECYTE EMSaD 06,Tonalá, Oaxaca.

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7.-TALKING VOLLEYBALL

Function: Expressing preferences, likes and dislikes.

Preparation: After seeing questions/phrases: like, hate, love and vocabulary about sports, food, movies, and music.

Material: Balloons.

Procedure:

• Form teams of 2 or 3 players.
• They have to pass to the front.
• Draw a small volley ball court inside the classroom (or outside).
• The balloom will be the ball.
• It is played like a volleyball game but, each time a student hits the ball has to say a sentence, question or phrase expressing a certain preference. Example: I like basketball, I love pizza, I don't like rock, I hate romantic movies, etc.

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8.-INVITATIONS

Function: Invitations.

Material: Colored sheets, glue, and sissors.

Procedure:

• Make a format which could be a basis for a birthday invitation card.
• Write a text for the invitation on the whiteboard.
• Students have to elaborate a birthday invitation card which must include their birth dates, addresses, and time for the party.
• Let students creativity show up, you will be surprised at the end of the class.