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The Tic-Tac-Toe Irregular Verbs Game
Activity 's name: The Tic-Tac-Toe Irregular Verbs game
Materials needed: White board and marker
Student's level: Elementary
Student's age: 9 -11
Class time needed: 10 / 15 minutes.
Aim of the game: To consolidate, to give dynamics to
recycling Irregular Past Verbs in a funny way. This
game creates a feeling of confidence among students.
Procedure:
1st. Draw the tic tac toe grid.
2nd. Divide the group into two teams.
Each team should decide and vote for a leader who will
be the one playing the role of spokesman.
3rd. Once the group has been divided,
students should choose either a nought (0 ) or a cross
(X) to be placed in the square they choose.
4th. Then , the teacher writes a verb
in the infinitive in each square.
5th. The aim of the game is to choose
three squares at a time taking turns among teams .Each
team will place their noughts or crosses if they provide
the right irregular form of the verb in the square.
If participants don't know the form or provide the wrong
answer, it's , then , the other group chance to place
their nought or cross. The first group to win is the
one who can do tic-tac-toe either horizontally , vertically
or in diagonal.
6th. The winning team should create
a short story using the past of those verbs they did
tic tac toe with . Whereas the losers, should create
a longer one using all the past tense in the grid.
7th. See example below:
Come X |
Go |
Have |
Be |
Lend X |
Bring |
Take |
Put |
Draw X |
This is a Tic-Tac-Toe!!!
By Ana Maria from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ana Maria works as a Coordinator and Teacher for ACE-English
Training Center. She has been teaching children, teens
and adults for 21 years. She is a Cambridge Examination
trainer for FCE, CAE, and CPE.
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