Hot Potato

Activity 1

Age group: 3-5 year-olds

Game: Hot Potato

Vocabulary: Body Parts (head, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, arms, hands, legs and foot / feet)

Time: 15’

Material: soft ball or any other object to be passed around; any song related to body parts (suggestion from the youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuZ6LPDYQc)

Interaction Pattern: T-Ss  

Preparation for the game: To be played in a classroom. Get a ball and prepare the song to be played.

Instructions:

1.   Sit with Ss in a circle and start passing the ball around as the song is played.

2.   The T chooses the right time to pause the song.

3.   When the T pauses the song, the S who is holding the ball has to name any part of the body.

4.   Then the T continues playing the song and the Ss pass the ball around.

5.   The T repeats the procedures above but the words (body parts) cannot be repeated by the Ss.

6.   If the S who is holding the ball says a word that has been already said, he/she is out of the game.

*Minha sugestão (Nira Alves):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOzZ2hYFHI