speakinggames

· Choose a telephone number, word, phrase, sentence or address number.
· You are going to say it to the student who is sitting in front of each row.
· This student has to say it to the partner who is sitting just behind him/her and so on until it gets to the student sitting at the end of the row. She/he has to write it Students can not speak in their mother tongue.
· The winner row is that which writes it accurately.

· Choose a student to stand in front of the class.
· Put a handkerchief on his/her eyes.
· The student wearing the handkerchief on has to ask the question "What's your name?". Another partner has to answer "my name is..." but imitating a funny voice and saying any name.
· The student wearing the handkerchief on has to guess who the person that answered the question is. If he/she guesses, can go to his/her seat. If not, he/she stays there until he/she guesses the real identity of the funny voice.

· The teacher first says "My name is...". and asks "What's yours?" or "What's your name?
· Then the teacher tosses the ball and a student has to catch it.
· That student has to answer "My name is..." , then toss the ball to another partner and ask for his or her name and so on until students have introduce themselves.
· In fact, the activity can be done with many different questions and answers.

· Draw tic tac toe charts on the whiteboard.
· Form teams (suggested 6 or 4).
· Draw a chart for each two teams.
· Write a word in each space of the chart.
· Two teams play on one chart. Give turns to participate.
· If a team want to write its cross or doughnut on a space, they must say a phrase, question, or sentence mentioning the word written in that space.

· 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.

· Provide your students with a set of tools.
· They will be interviewed by the group.
· It can be start with questions like:" What's your occupation/profession? What do you do? Where do you work?.
· Besides answering the interview they can show the tools and say what they are for.

· Ask a student to leave the classroom.
· Ask him/her to pick a cloud.
· After that ask him/her to decide a name for that cloud.
· He/she has to say the name of his/her cloud.
· Of course students have to use "his" or "her".
· Example: his name is Cloudy.
· You could do it with any object; it is just for practicing possessive pronouns.

· Place garments on a table.
· It works better if they are students' garments.
· Choose a student to pass in front of the class.
· He/she has to say whom the garments are, example: "this is Maria's sweater".
· The garments which have been mentioned have to be taken out of the table.
· At the end, count how many garments the student mentioned.
· The student who mentions whose garments belong to in the few amount of time wins.
· It is recommended to place at least ten garments on the table.

· A boy and a girl have to pass to the front of the class.
· Hold the book and say: "this is my book".
· After that give the book to the boy and say:" this is his book".
· Then give the book to the girl and say: "this is her book".
· Stand up yourself between the students and say: "this is our book".
· Next both students stand up near from each other and you say: "this is their book".
· After students take notes, give the book to someone else and he/she has to say whom the book belongs to.
· Stress pronunciation on possessives and at the same time point at the person whom the book belongs to.

· Form teams.
· Provide each team with a visual of people.
· Students must describe what people are wearing according to the visual.
· They can describe a garment and pass the visual to a partner. Example: First student: She is wearing a blouse. Second student: she is wearing earrings, etc
· All the students have to participate by saying at least one sentence.
· The objective is that the whole team speaks at least for a full minute.

· Provide your students with pictionaries.
· Choose a student to pass in front of the class.
· That student has to act an action of the pictionary.
· His/her partners have to guess the action he/she is performing. Example: he is writing, she is drinking, etc.
· Try to involve as many students as possible.
· It could be also a competition on teams giving certain amount of time.

· Students have to stand up back to back in pairs. They will need paper and a pen.
· One student will be the watcher and will say to his/her partner what he/she is watching. The partner has to write what his/her partner is saying (note: only one of them can see the video).
· The row of watchers has to describe what is happening in the video and the row of writers will try to take notes of what they are listening to.
· Change roles and play another video.
· After seeing the videos they can share notes and create their own story.
· At the end play both videos for them to notice what really happened and check if their stories are similar or different.

· Form pairs. Students must decide who is "A" and who "B".
· Stick the cardboard in red on the whiteboard and the one in black on the opposite wall.
· Student "A" has to run and read the text in red and then go back where his/her partner is and dictate the text. Student "B" has to write it down.
· Then student "B" stands up and run to the text in black, read it and go back to dictate it to his/her partner who has to write it down.
· The pairs who first write the whole texts win..

· 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 balloon 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 according to the content of the class.

· Place some chairs in a circle. You have to place minus one chair according to the number of students in the game.
· Put the flash verbs in the middle of the circle.
· Play music. Students have to walk around the chairs.
· Turn the music off. Students have to sit on the chairs.
· The student who could not be seated has to pick a flash verb and say something related to the verb.
· If the sentence is correct, he stays in the game. If not, he is out of it and also a chair is taken out.
· The student who stays at the end of the game wins.
· The activity can also include adverbs and days of the week.

· Place a basket in front of the group.
· Give a student the ball
· The student has to throw the ball (like a basket ball free throw). If he/she makes the basket at the first time, he/she wins a point. If not, he/she has to say where the ball ended.
· The sample production is as following: The ball is between Griselda and Arturo. The ball is in front of Ricardo. The ball is next to Ana. etc.
· After saying where the ball is, the rest of the class has to write it down as a feedback.
· Repeat the activity as many times as possible.

· Ask a student to leave the classroom.
· Hide the small object in the classroom.
· The student comes in.
· His partners have to guide him to the object. Example: Walk straight, three steps, turn right, etc.
· The goal of the game is to find the object with the directions given by the classmates.
· In fact, it could be a competition on teams.

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