Activity of the week - Sentence Building Race

  Hi Everyone,

Here is a quick activity to practice sentence formation and collocation. Especially good for helping students with ZNO Use of English. It's easy to prepare and lots of fun!

Materials:
Slips of paper

Procedure:

• Divide the class into teams of 4/5
• Give a slip of paper to one person on each team
• Give them a root word like 'despite'  or 'suggested'
• The first student writes the root word on the paper and passes the paper to the left.  The next student must add a word either before or after the root word  such as  'despite being'. They pass the slip to the next student who adds another word, e.g. 'Despite being rich'. The students keep passing the slip around the table adding one word each until a logical sentence with at least 6 words is formed.
• The fastest team then holds up the slip to win.

Brilliant for practising collocations with prepositions and gerund/infinitive in particular.

Have fun!