FORTUNE TELLER
Published by john@teachers-zone.com in Teaching Ideas · 7 June 2015
Tags: speaking, colours, numbers, grammar, jobs, activities, crafts, ice_breakers
Tags: speaking, colours, numbers, grammar, jobs, activities, crafts, ice_breakers
Speaking and craft activity to practise colours, numbers, jobs, letters of the alphabet and future simple.
Age: 6-12
Language focus:
- lexical items: colours, numbers, letters of the alphabet, jobs,
- question: What’s your favourite…?,
- verb ‘to be’
- future simple: You will be a/an …
Materials: a sheet of A4 paper (one for each child), crayons, a pencil, scissors.
Procedure:
1. Demonstrate how to make a fortune teller.
2. Ask the children to colour the outside flaps different colours.
3. Ask the students to write numbers 1-8 on the inside.
4. Ask the children to write messages on the other side of flaps with numbers. In the example: You will be a vet / fire fighter / pilot / teacher / singer / lawyer / gardener / police officer.
5. Children move around the classroom and play in pairs with their fortune tellers:
STUDENT 1: What’s your favourite colour?
STUDENT 2: Green.
STUDENT 1: G-R-E-E-N (student 1 spells the letters and opens and closes the fortune teller as many times as the number of the letters in the chosen colour). Choose the number.
STUDENT 2: Six.
STUDENT 1: (student 1 reads the message written under the number 6) You will be a police officer.
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