This is a fun group game for sentence construction and word ordering that works well for Junior High and maybe for Senior High, too. It can be used to review sentences using any grammar point and is therefore quite versatile.
Materials needed:
One blank piece of paper per group.
Some prepared sentences that you wish to review.
Game Precedure:
1) Split the class into groups (e.g. five students) and have them put their desks together.
2) Give each group a piece of paper on which to write.
3) Mark out a section of the black/whiteboard for each group to write in, or simply ask them to write on the allocated paper.
4) Give each student within each group a number starting from 1 to the number of words in your longest sentence. (see #5, below)
5) I.e. If your longest sentence was "Please show me your passport." assign numbers from 1 to 5.
6) Tell the class to go to sleep/close eyes with their heads on their desks. Make sure nobody is peeking!
7) Write onto the board one word, randomly selected, from your chosen sentence (e.g. passport in #5, above).
8) Tell all #1 students from each group to wake up, look at the word on the board, and to memorise it.
9) Then tell them all to go to back to sleep, erase that word and write up the next word randomly chosen from the key sentence. (e.g. show).
10) Wake up all #2 students from each group, ask them to memorise their word and then to sleep again.
11) Repeat until all words from the sentence have been memorised.
12) Wake up the whole class and, in their groups, get them to:
a) write down the words they memorised
b) and, to shuffle these words into a grammatically correct sentence.
13) Once they have done this, one student from the group writes their completed sentence on their area of the board or on the allocated piece of paper.
14) Check the answers and award points as suggested below.
Notes and suggestions:
a) Emphasise speed and accuracy.
b) Write down the order in which they finish and assign points once all teams have written up their sentences.
c) Award 6 points per round.
d) Start by checking the sentence of the group who finished quickest.
e) If this group wrote the sentence correctly, they get 3 points. If they made a mistake, they get 0 points and the group which finished second quickest gets the chance to earn the 3 points. The next group with a correct sentence gets 2 points, and the next 1 point.
Credit for this idea goes to Andrew Hancock, formerly of Oita Prefecture, and founder of WikiJet.
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