Ігри на уроках англійської мови в початковій школі

I. Warming-up Activities

1.   “Moving Rows”.

T: Good morning, dear children! I’m very glad to see you. Let’s greet  each other in “Moving Rows”.

Procedure: Pupils stand in two rows face to face. They greet each other and the make a step to the left and greet another partner. The first and the last pupil in a row moves to another row. This activity repeats until ali members of the group greet each other.

2. Silent Speech

Procedure:

1.      In order to focus on pronunciation the teacher writes new words on the blackboard.

2.      The teacher tells the class to listen as carefully as they can and then the teacher “mouths” the words silently.

3.      The pupils should try to identify the words by watching the movements of her mouth.

4.      The pupils “mouth” words for each other working in pairs.       

 

3. Mind-Map “In the City”

Procedure: Pupils in turn should come to the blackboard and write down the words

                   meaning the things they can see in the city.

4. Game “Bingo”

Procedure: Pupils write down into their exercise-books 10 words from the   

                  blackboard. Then listen to the teacher who will name the words of the  

                  Mind-Map and underline the words which they hear and have in their

                  list. The first, who will underline all words, has to rise a hand and say

                  “Bingo”. He will be the winner of the game.

5.  Game “Beginning with the Letters of the Word”

Procedure:  Pupils name the items of clothesr which begin with the letters of the word “shorts”.

e.g. sweater, hat, overcoat, raincoat, trousers, shoes.

6. Game “Round-table”

Procedure: Children work in groups. They in turn write down the words on the

                  topic on a sheet of paper. Whose list is the longest? / 3min./

                                                                                          

  7. Sweet Quiz (The idea belongs to Alla Glazatova)

Procedure: A teacher has a bag with candies “M&M” of different colours.

                    Every colour has its question. Pupils in turn take a candy from the

                    bag and get questions on the topic “School”.

e.g. red – 1. Where do you study? /At school/

       green – 2. Where do you have your lessons?   /In the classroom/              

        blue – 3. What do you write with?  /A pen/         

        brown – 4. Where do you put your pens and pencils?  /Into a pencil case/ 

         red – 5. Where do you put your textbooks, exercise books and pencil cases? /Into a bag/         

         green – 6. What do you do at the Maths lesson?  /We do the sums and count/         

         blue – 7. Do you run at the Nature Study lessons?  /No, we don’t/         

         brown – 8. Do you like English?      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 II.  Vocabulary Games

T: We are going to play some games to see how attentive you are. Divide into 2

    teams. An independent referee will count points on the blackboard.

1.  Memory Game

Procedure: Teacher shows “flashcards” on the topic, pupils have English varients

                  They must choose the right answer.

2.  Chain by chain

Procedure: Pupil 1 of team 1 pronounce a word in Enflish and apupil 1 of team2

                  has to translate it into Ukrainian. Then pupil 1 of team 2 asks  pupil 2   

                  of team 1 to translate another word and so on.      

3.  Step by Step

Procedure: A representative of each team translates words from Ukrainian into

                  English. The cards are on the floor.

4.  Making up sentences with the words from the box.

    Whose sentence is the longest?                                             

5. Writing in the air

Procedure:

1.      The teacher writes a new word in the air with the help of her finger.

2.      The pupils try to identify the words by watching the movements of her finger.

3.      The pupils write the words in the air to each other.

6.  Game “What Kind of Person Are You?”

Procedure: 1. Make a list of 10 things which belong to you. Choose only those

                   things which are typical of you. Don’t show the list to anyone. 

                   2. Mix the lists and read them out in small groups of 4. The group

                      must guess who wrote each list and prove it.      

III. Activities for Relaxation

1) “Mirrors”

 Procedure:

1.      Children are devided into two groups. They stand face to face.

2.      The teacher tells them what to do and they do it looking at each other:

e.g. – getting up;

     . – cleaning teeth;

       -  brushing hair;

       - looking into the telescope;

       - flying;

       - swimming;

       - dancing…

2) Game “How often do you do this?”

      Procedure:

     T: Dear pupils, you can see the words “always”, “never”, “sometimes” and

         others around the classroom.

         Please, stand up and go to the word that shows how often you do the                    

         following:

-         I get up late.

-         I help about the house.

-         I wash up.

-         I go to the cinema.

-         I go shopping.

-         I watch TV.

                                                               

  

3) Game “Nick& Andy”

Procedure: A teacher sings a song and children do all the commands.

                                  Nick & Andy

                                 Nick and Andy,

                                 Sugar and candy,

                                 I say ….                                                       

e.g. tidy up the room, sweep the floor, wash-up, eat all the food from the plate…