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DO / GO / PLAY Sports – HAPPY FAMILIES GAME created with younger students – a fun activity to practice the different verbs with sports after having MADE THE GAME TOGETHER with the students…

13/11/2015

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GETTING STUDENTS INVOLVED IN LESSON PREPARATION will make the CONTENTS MORE MEMORABLE...

​Previous to the digital era I had dedicated many days to preparing a large set of Happy Families cards based on vocabulary sets:  cutting out pictures from magazines, writing in beautiful handwriting in different colours, covering the cards back and front with transparent sticky film - no laminating in those days.  After much fun play in class, my bag of carefully homemade teaching resources was stolen from my car together with my old school uniform, I kept to show my students.  So I lost all motivation to create a new set.
 
Recently, however, I felt the need for that very useful game and realized that in the digital age it would be much easier to recreate.  I suddenly realized how well it would also work with verbs and am now in the process of making a pack of cards for verbs and another for vocabulary which I shall share in due course.
 
Not having any cards ready, yesterday I decided to involve my preschool group in creating three simple sets and explaining the rules at the same time.  THE GAME WAS A HUGE SUCCESS because, HAVING PARTICIPATED IN ITS CREATION, it was EASIER TO REMEMBER THE VOCABULARY and WORDS.  As a result I have decided I will involve my younger children in lesson preparation more often in order to make learning more memorable for them.
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For those who don’t know how to play HAPPY FAMILIES:
  1. Deal out the cards face down to all the players (in groups of min 3-5)
(we only had these few cards because there were only 3 children so you will have to make some more if you have a biggr group).
  1. Look at the cards and put similar sets together.
  2. The object of the game is to collect a set, a family.  The first word is your card so you have to ask for the other three.
  3. Ask your partner:  Have you got “go swimming?”
  4. Yes, I have. – The player passes the card and the winning player asks another person.
  5. No, I haven’t. – The player who replied no asks another person.
The winner is the player to have the most ‘families’.
 
You can download the game below.  I shall share the new ones I make in due course (more elaborate including tense changes).
 
Hope you have fun with it!
Susan

P.S.  Someone rightly noticed that I wrote 'do' climbing instead of 'go'.  This was because the little girl who suggested it to me 'does' climbing on a wall in a local gym and on the spur of the moment I considered it equivalent to what gymnasts 'do'.  I will make sure I put it with 'go' on the new cards I make because it is effectively and outdoor sport.

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1 Comment
Alyona
15/11/2015 01:52:22 pm

Thanks a lot for such an interesting game, but i haven't understood the rules((.i noticed all the cards (with one verb) have the same words. Should we give different set? But if we have 4 children in one group only two children will be able to win. And if 3 nobody wins. Sorry, will you explain once again? Looking forward to your reply

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    I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

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