elephants - hal and steve english
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sleepingelephants
sleepingelephants
whiteboard versionRULES:
1) To start, divide the class into teams and assign students from both teams the numbers (1 up to 15 depending on
how many students are in each team). Explain that each student will be assigned a word within a sentence, and that when the teacher says "teams wake up," they must work together to form all their words into the sentence the
teacher has pre-chosen. TIP: The teacher can laminate all of these sheets so that this game is reusable. The teacher and the students can use board markers to write on the laminated sheets
2) The teacher then tells the students to "go to sleep," and the students should respond by putting their heads down
on the desk. Don't let the students peek!
3) The Teacher then calls out the numbers in order one by one: "Number One Wake Up, etc." As each number is called out, one student from each team puts their head up, looks at the board where the teacher will uncover the word for them to memorize by lifting the 'cover sheet', and memorizes the sentence fragment or word that is being shown on the board. Once they have memorized their fragment, the teacher then tells them to sleep again: "Number One, Go
to Sleep". The teacher repeats this process until each group knows one piece of the sentence.
4) Once each student has seen their sentence fragment, the teacher then calls out "wake up!" At this time, each team tries to piece the sentence together in the correct order. The team that completes and writes down the sentence
on the provided 'answer sheet' first correctly first wins a point.
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
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whiteboard grammar version
RULES:(this version includes parts of speech instead of numbers e.g. 'noun')
1) To start, divide the class into teams and assign students from both teams a part of speech (one for each student in the group).
Explain that each student will be assigned a word or part of speech within a sentence, and that when the teacher says "teams wake up," they must work together to form all their words into the sentence the teacher has pre-chosen. TIP: The teacher can laminate all of these sheets so that this game is reusable. The teacher and the students can use board markers to write on the
laminated sheets
2) The teacher then tells the students to "go to sleep," and the students should respond by putting their heads down on the desk. Don't let the students peek!
3) The Teacher then calls out the parts of speech one by one: "Noun Wake Up, etc." As each part of speech is called out, one
student from each team puts their head up, looks at the board where the teacher will uncover the word for them to memorize by lifting the 'cover sheet', and memorizes the sentence fragment or word that is being shown on the board. Once they have
memorized their fragment, the teacher then tells them to sleep again: "Noun, Go to Sleep". The teacher repeats this process until each group knows one piece of the sentence.
4) Once each student has seen their sentence fragment, the teacher then calls out "wake up!" At this time, each team tries to
piece the sentence together in the correct order. The team that completes and writes down the sentence on the provided 'answer sheet' first correctly first wins a point.
noun
nounproper
noun
common
noun
concrete
noun
abstract
adverb
adverbof
place
adverbof
time
adverbof
place
adverbof
degree
pronoun
preposition
conjuction
interjection
verb
adjective
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answer
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sleepingelephants
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RULES:(in the version the students will give each student a word or sentence fragment written on a card rather than using a
whiteboard)
1) To start, divide the class into teams. The teacher will explain that each student will be assigned a word within a sentence, and that when the teacher says "teams wake up," they must work together to form all their words into the sentence the
teacher has pre-chosen. TIP: The teacher can laminate all of these sheets so that this game is reusable. The teacher and the students can use board markers to write on the laminated sheets
2) The teacher then tells the students to "go to sleep," and the students should respond by putting their heads down on the
desk. When the students put their heads down the teacher will put a card with a word or sentence fragment on each of their desk face down. Don't let the students peek!
3) The Teacher then calls out "wake up!" All students may put their head up and flip over their card.
4) Once each student has seen their sentence fragment, they should work together will their team to piece the sentence
together in the correct order. The team that puts their cards in order to form the correct sentence first win a point.
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sleepingelephants
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1) To start, divide the class into teams. The teacher will explain that each student will be assigned a letter within a word, and that when the teacher says "teams wake up," they must work together to form all their letters into the word the teacher has pre-chosen. TIP: The teacher can laminate all of these sheets so that this game is reusable.
2) The teacher then tells the students to "go to sleep," and the students should respond by putting their heads down on the desk. When the students put their heads down the teacher will put a card with a letter on each of
their desk face down. Don't let the students peek!
3) The Teacher then calls out "wake up!" All students may put their head up and flip over their card.
4) Once each student has seen their sentence fragment, they should work together will their team to piece the word together. The team that puts their cards in order to spell the word correctly first wins a point.
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