Activity of the week - Silent Auction

Hello Guys!

This week's activity is a controlled practice in the form of a silent auction.
It needs very little preparation time and is lots of fun.

Materials  -  Pieces of paper with sentences on.  Blu-tac or Sellotape to stick to walls. 

Preparation 
-  Write 10 sentences using the target language. 3 or 4 of these will have mistakes, while the
   rest should be correct. 
 -Make the sentences big and easy to read, and number them 1-10.
- Stick the sentences up around the room.

Procedure
- After teaching the target language, put the class into small groups or pairs.
- Give each group a piece of paper.
- Ask them to write '1000' at the top and 1-10 down the side.
- Explain to the class that they all have $1000 to spend, and the winning team is the one who can buy the most CORRECT sentences.
- The students move around the room deciding if the sentences are right or wrong.
if they think the sentence is wrong, they put 0 next to the corresponding number. If they think it is right they can try to buy it by writing an amount they want to spend next to that number (making sure not to let other groups see what they have written).
- It is important that the cumulative amount they write down does not exceed 1000.
- After 10 minutes ask the students to sit down and give them an extra minute to decide where to place their money.
- Hold up each sentence in turn and ask how much each group placed on it. it it's wrong, they lose their money. If it's right, the team that wrote the highest amount down for that number wins the sentence.
- The team with the most at the end is the winner!

Ideal for
Perfect tenses
Used to/would
conditionals
reported speech

Variation
Have the teams write the sentences.

Have fun!