Variation: you can use this to practice other combinations, for instance verb-noun combinations.

15. Frozen tag

Level: any

Materials: cards (with words or pictures representing vocabulary) space

Aim: review, fluency

Procedure: Hand out the cards, one to each student and practice the vocabulary so that everyone knows their own word. One person is "it." When "it" touches another person, he/she becomes "frozen" (cannot move), but their friends can unfreeze him/her. To do this, the friend tells the frozen person what's on their card. The frozen person then either repeats or acts out the item. If correct, they are free.

Variation: from time to time have students switch cards and teach each other the new vocabulary and change the person who is "it."

 16. Word Category

Aim: to review vocabulary

Procedure: This game calls for words within categories(范围） and sets up a hand-clapping or finger-snapping rhythm with a circle of students. At a designated rhythmic point, the first student must call out a word in the target category (country name, flower, article of clothing, etc.) Then at the same point in the rhythm, the next student must supply an appropriate word, and so on, around the circle until someone gets stuck. Since no word can be repeated, it also promotes listening to each other.

 17. Jumble Word

Aim: to review vocabulary

Procedure: Give students some letters and ask them to form words. At first, you can give them a few letters and then progress to more letters. The student(s) who can form the most words or form a word using most of the letters given is the winner.

 18. Christmas Pudding

Aim: to review vocabulary

Procedure: This game is an anagram（颠倒字母顺序） activity. Have students make as many words as they can out of the letters in the words "Christmas Pudding" ex. mud, camp, or aspirin. Have them work individually and then check in small groups. As they check, common words are crossed out. Devise a point scale appropriate to the students' level. Try again with different words: "Silver bells," "Happy Holidays," etc.

19. Word Race

Aim: to review target vocabulary

Procedure: The teacher says a word like bedroom or kitchen and the students in groups have to draw as many items related to that word as they can. After 5 minutes the teacher calls "pencil down." The students must call out the names of all the pictures they have drawn. The team who can call out the most is the winner.

20. Wolves and Lambs

Aim: to reinforce and review vocabulary

Preparation: 2 or 3 sets of the target vocabulary

Procedure: The teams or groups sit in circles well apart from each other, and are visited by 'wolves' from other teams. Each "wolf" has a list of pictures/words to be recognized. Anyone who does not know the words has to stand aside as a captive 'lamb.' (The wolf may ask anyone, What is this?) After some time, the 'shepherd' (teacher) chases the wolves away and the wolves take the 'captives' back to their groups. The team with the most captives wins.

21. Preposition Cards

Aim: to practise prepositions using kinesthetic（肌肉运动） drama techniques.

Preparation: Cards with prepositions written on them.

Procedure: Each student takes a card. In turns, they have to mime the preposition they have until the class guesses which preposition it is. When this activity is over, they have to create a scene where everyone has to speak using his/her preposition; they should not use any other prepositions. Students role-play their scene.

 22. Cards on the Table

Aim: To memorize the correct spelling of words in an enjoyable way.

Procedure:

1) Give the students one letter card each.

2) Clear a space in the classroom and put a table in the middle.

3) The students stand in a circle round the table, 3 or 4 meters from it. Each student has one letter card each.

4) The teacher calls out words he wants to revise, one at a time, and any student who holds a letter that is in that word must run forward and put the letter on the table.

5) The last person who puts his letter down must spell the word and give its meaning. If unsuccessful, s/he is out of the game, and the teacher gives the correct answer.

6) Students should take back a different letter from the table each time, i.e. they should swap with someone else.

23. In the Manner of

Aim: To practise adverbs

Procedure: Elicit adverbs from the students and ask a scribe to write them on the white board. On a different part of the whiteboard write, 'You sat on the chair _____ly." Explain that you are going to sit on your chair in the manner of one of the adverbs on the board. Sit on the chair appropriately and using the sentence on the board, elicit from the students how you sat down. For instance, 'You sat on the chair slowly.' Invite learners to take turns sitting on the chair using adverbs from the board and elicit the sentence from their classmates. As the learners warm up to the activity, erase the material on the whiteboard and see how much they remember.

Variation: The teacher calls out a series of imperatives and students sit down appropriately. For example: sit down heavily, sit down sadly, sit down angrily.

24. Word Guessing

Aim: to review vocabulary

Procedure: Divide the class into teams. Give one student on each team a piece of paper with seven words on it centered on a theme. For example, 7 words that start with M, or 7 words that are parts of the body. In two minutes (let the other teams watch the clock for you), the student with the paper must try to get one of the students on his/her team to say as many of the words on the list without using the word itself. One point is scored for each word guessed. The challenge here with a class full of students who all speak the same language is keeping them from giving hints in their native tongue. Usually, the other teams are vigilant about policing this for you, but when they are lazy, you'll have to lay down the law on your own.

25. The P

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