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Tic-Tac-Talk

Goals: to describe actions; to use picture cues

1. Write the name of each verb tense you want to review on a separate 3" x 5" card.
 
2. Have students cut out about 20 photographs of things or people doing things and glue them to a large sheet of cardboard or chart paper.
 
3. Divide the class into two groups. Make a Tic-Tac-Toe grid on the chalkboard and designate one group as the O team and the other as the X team.
 
4. Have students take turns choosing a verb card and making up a sentence about one of the pictures using that verb tense.
 
For example:

Teresa chooses a card marked Past Tense. She might point to a picture of a woman talking on the phone and say, 'She talked on the phone.'
 
5. For each correct sentence, the student can add an X or an O to the Tic-Tac-Toe grid on the board.
 
6. Keep a record of how many games each team wins.

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