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

TRUMP JANKEN
 
Submitted by Nathan Jang ( Tamaki Town BOE) 
Target Group
: 5-6th year 
Difficulty Level
: Fundamentals 
Activity Objective: 
To practice and review certain English sentence structures, specifically greetings and sentence/
word constructions of quantitative nature (e.g. "how many", plurals, etc.), but may be tailored to 
other kinds of constructions as well. The nature of this activity aims to ease students into using 
English verbally, and get them into the habit of speaking. 
Procedure: 
Each student is handed 2 to 3 playing cards. Students are to stand up and go to a classmate, making 
a pair, and practice the grammar/sentence construction learned for the day. After 2 students in a 
pair are done practicing the prescribed grammar construction, they are to do rock-paper-scissors 
and the winner receives one card from the losing player. This is considered one round. After each 
round, each child in the pair goes to a different classmate respectively and repeats the process. 
Game may go on for up to 5 minutes, and the students are to go around and go through as many 
rounds as possible through the whole duration of the activity. Students who run out of cards during 
the activity still continue and do what they can to regain possession of cards. After the duration of 
the activity is over, the teacher goes through and see who has how many cards (this also serves to 
review counting). The child (or children) who end up with the most cards is given a sticker as a 
prize.