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Discovering Sentences

ESL/EFL Game Profile
Name of Game:
Dicovering Sentences
Target Students:
Middle School
Target Students:
High School
Target Students:
University
Target Students:
Adults
Duration:
15-30 minutes
Number of Students:
Groups of 2
English Skills:
Grammar
English Skills:
Spelling
English Skills:
Writing
Objective:
Use word lists to create sentences
Instructions
  1. Give each student a photocopy of a list of 150-300 mixed words
  2. Have students make sentences with the words
Variations
  • Who can make the shortest sentence?
  • Who can make the longest sentence?
  • Who can make the most sentences?
Notes

This is a great time to emphasize capitalization and punctuation, and teach sentence types and give examples such as:

  • Imperative: Do it!
  • Interrogative: Do What?
  • Declarative: Do this.
  • Exclamatory: Help me!
  • etc.

Textbooks are allowed, as are superlatives, past tenses, plurals and other suffixes, etc. that can be devised from the basic words on the list:

  • SAY: said, saying, says, etc.
  • BAD: badder, baddest, badly, badness, etc.

Some possible sources for your word list:

  • The 500 Most Commonly Used Words in the English Language
  • The 100 Most Commonly Used Verbs in the English Language

A big thanks to bill for this EFL/ESL game!

Why did you include 'badder'

Why did you include 'badder' and 'baddest' on the list of deviations for 'bad'? Those aren't real words! (Yes, Samuel L. Jackson is the baddest man alive, but that's beside the point) Do you mean to say that they can use the 'worse' and 'worst' variations?

Aint slang wonderful! Check

Aint slang wonderful! Check it out at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/badder
Thanks America.

good to know

You have to teach the fundamentals before you can teach slang.