In Touch 2 Resources
Extra Activities
Click on the games below to read about these extra activities. You can
download and photocopy the free PDF files to use as fun class activities
for your Senior B class students.
Happy Birthday Game
Taken from Longman Photocopiable Material Beginners' Communication Games
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download the Presents cards 
Type of activity: Whole class, search game
Function practised: Asking and saying when birthdays are
Structures: When is your birthday? It's in (February). It's on (February
the 28th).
Topic area: Numbers, months
Essential vocabulary: birthdays; numbers to 31, months of the year; names
of presents as required by the students (e.g. book, chocolates, flowers
etc.)
Material and preparation
Copy and cut up the PRESENTS CARDS. You will need one for every student.
How to use the game:
- Give each student a 'present' (a present card).
- Ask them to write the date of their birthday on the label.
- Then collect up the presents and redistribute them at random so that
each student has a different present.
- This time, ask them to imagine what is in the parcel (e.g. a book,
a box of chocolates, a parrot in a cage) and write on the back of the
card what is in the parcel.
- Go around helping them with vocabulary.
- The object of the game is for everyone to find out who their present
is for and to give it to them.
- To do this, they will have to stand up and move around the class
asking, 'When is your birthday?' until they find the person who owns
the present.
- They should then give them the present, explaining what it is.
Demonstration
Demonstrate how to play the search part of the game, by taking a present
yourself and trying to find its owner. Ask a couple of students, 'When
is your birthday?' Shake your head and look disappointed when the date
is not the same as the one on the label.
Broken sentences
Taken from Penguin Vocabulary Games and Activities for Teachers
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the Broken Sentences worksheet
In this activity students have to put together sentences which have been
broken up into two parts.
Method
- Copy and cut up the broken sentences, so there is one sentence for
each pair of students in the class. (If there is an odd number, the
teacher can take part).
- Students walk around the room trying to find their "pair".
Once they have, they sit down.
- Check by getting each pair to read out their sentence.
Bingo Telephone Numbers
Taken from Penguin English Photocopiables Grammar Games and Activities
1
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the Bingo Telephone Cards and Numbers
Time: 10 minutes per game
Type of activity: Teacher-led with students working individually (or in
pairs for larger classes)
Preparation: Make a copy of the Teacher's Bingo Board (see downloadable
pdf file). Keep the original Teacher's Bingo Board as it is and cut up
the numbers on the copy to make 24 squares.
Copy the downloadable Student's cards and cut them out - one card for
each student or per pair. If you plan to play the game twice, make two
cards per student.
Grammar point
Practising how telephone numbers are said
each number said separately; double two; oh
Method
- Revise how to say telephone numbers first if necessary.
- Repeat with a second card for further practice and invite students
to pick out a square and read out the number.
- You might like to expand the activity by asking students to read
out real phone numbers e.g. their own, numbers of local services etc.
and discussing how to phone locally, nationally or internationally.
There are few activities that can beat Bingo for concentration and intensive
listening practice!
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