THE POWER OF NOUGHTS & CROSSES – no prep REVISION activity

At the beginning of the game ...

... when all the verbs have been transformed into simple past sentences - oral activity.

Noughts & Crosses as another of my favourite end of lesson REVISION GAMES had already been planned for this post when I realised that tekhnologic had just been awarded the BRITISH COUNCIL TEACHING ENGLISH Featured blog of the month for April 2015 for a very similar game dedicated to students who are at a much higher level.  A great idea I had never thought of and will certainly implement!

I tend to use this game for elementary to pre-intermediate levels to REVISE FORMULATING QUESTIONS (which is forever tricky) and IRREGULAR VERBS. 

I divide the class into two teams.

As can be seen in the photo, I put verbs in the base form and they have to formulate sentences using the verbs in the simple past and spelling them to me correctly to be allowed to place a nought or cross in their square.

Alternatively I put irregular verbs in their past form and ask them to formulate questions for the other team with them.

For elementary students I put verbs in the present tense and also suggest a pronoun in order to have some questions asked or sentences formulated in the third person.

Noughts & Crosses is a very versatile no-preparation revision game, which is particularly fun and useful towards the end of the year when students are getting tired and teachers want to verify how much they have retained.  It can be a warmer, a filler or even a complete lesson I discovered.

That is the power of Noughts & Crosses!

Can anyone suggest any other simple REVISION ACTIVITIES?

Hope you have fun with it!
Susan