Games with Sentences
Title
Goals
Rules
  The teacher puts a word on the   board to start playing. Each time there must be a word with a different function   in a sentence;
To put the whole class working   together;
Sentence Building
To reinforce logical syntax patterns;
Each student who is asked to  play must add a word after or before, respecting the immediate syntax logic.
To recall the main elements   of a sentence and their functions.
eg (The car/ the?is.) is not possible.
Wins the student who played   the last playable word.
Students seat to play cards;
To recall the functions of   words within the sentence;
Are you OK?
The teacher provides a set of   cards containing words;
To practise syntax patterns.
The words are coloured   differently, according to their category, for example.
+ blue ?   articles;
+ black ? nouns;
+ green ?   pronouns;
+ red ?   auxiliary verbs;
+ brown ? main   verbs;
+ grey ?   adjectives;
+ yellow ?   adverbs;
+ Orange ?   prepositions.
The cards are distributed at   random;
  Each player must play a card   with a word which may correctly join the one played before, in terms of   sentence order;
  Each player will start, at   turns;
  In case someone plays an odd   word, the other players ask:
Are you OK?
Draw on ;the   board faces expressing different attitudes. Associated objects may also be drawn;
Words and Feelings
To practise description of   people;
To recall adjectives used to   describe:
Students must invent a name   in which they will associate and adjective with the proper name (eg regretting Ruth);
+ physically;
+ psychologically;
Students will choose a   character to write its description, imagining how its personality would be   like;
* To produce a   written text.
Students will read their   descriptions aloud for the rest of the class.
To recall logical patterns in   a sentence;
  Teacher will put an example   on the board with the structure(s) to be used:� eg
A's & B's
To associate different clauses   to produce a sentence;
A) I am the Sun power;
B) Which warms the flower.
  To practise end-of-verse   rhymes.
or
A IF you play with no fear;
To practise a defined   structure:
B You   won't pass the year.
Eg + if-clauses;
  Students are divided into two   groups: A's & B's;
���� + Relative clauses;
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  A's will try to create   similar clauses like the given in A, above;
  B's will try to create   similar clauses like the given in  B, above;
  After having created about four   to six clauses, students exchange their materials;
A second turn will be to   create new clauses to complete the ones the other group already had written,   trying to create a rhyming sound at the end
Students will read aloud their   materials;
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