English in elementary school teaching materials collection 2013 the jet p rogr amme

Target Group
: 4-6th year
Difficulty Level: 
Fundamentals 
Activity Objective: 
The goal of this activity is to learn and practice polite requests, as well as many different action 
verbs.
Procedure: 
Step 1 Teach the students various action verbs that will be used during the game. Teach them by 
example physically (for example: take a step, crabwalk, jump forward, run forward, etc) 
Step 2 -Begin by designating a "Mother". This person will change at the beginning of each game.
Step 3- The Mother stands by him or herself at one end, and all the other players ("children") stand 
shoulder-to-shoulder a desired length away (usually 10-20 feet) facing the Mother. However far 
away the children are, the Mother must be able to hear them.
Step 4- The game begins by the first child asking the Mother if they can take a certain amount of a 
specific type of step. Some popular steps are Baby Steps, Scissor Steps, Giant Steps, Jumping Jack 
Steps, Karate Steps, or Jump Steps.
Step 5- The Mother then replies with "Yes, you may," or, "No, you may not." Whether the Mother 
replies yes or no is completely up to the Mother's whim. The rest of the children each asks for steps 
on their turn, and once all have asked, play returns to the first child and continues until a child had 
reached the Mother.
Step 6- The first child to reach the Mother wins! This child also becomes the Mother for the next 
game.