Back to school activity

By Yuliya Bondarenko, SMART Exemplary Educator Russia

      Teacher of English in gymnasium #12, Novosibirsk, Russia.

The winner of the international competition "Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program", 2009.

Member of the international exchange of leaders from different countries. Training on "Innovations in high school education, "U.S. - 2009

The winner of the priority national project "Education", 2011

     As usual students have very funny summer holidays. When students come back to school,  they will share their impressions with the help of a game. The game rules are:

Aims   Skills - speaking

Language- questions

Other-getting to know each other

Level   Intermediate Organisation   Individuals, class

 Time   10-20 minutes

Procedure   Step 1: Each student touch a dice and choose a task. Everyone walks around the room and questions other people about things on the task. As soon as somebody finds another student who answers 'yes', it means he 's found the patner.  

Step 2: Students read out what they have found out. They can preface their report with: 'I was surprised that X liked . . .', 'I never thought that Y liked . . .'.

       

 To prepare warm up I used SMART Dices and interactive class work to find where students have been during the summer.