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

“HOW ARE YOU?” GESTU
RE GAME 
Submitted by Leanna Jenkins (Kobe City BOE) 
Target Group
: 3rd-6th year
Difficulty Level: 
Basic Conversation 
Activity Objective: 
To practice asking "how are you?" and replying with various responses.
Procedure: 
Before I play this game with my students, we first practice saying the responses to the question, 
"How are you?" while doing different gestures that remind us of that feeling (ie: crying for sad, 
stomping for angry, yawning for tired, etc). Students will then each get three point cards from the 
ALT and JTE. Students will go up to their different classmates and play "rock, scissors, paper". The 
winner will ask the losing student, "How are you?" and the losing student responds by giving a 
gesture of how they are feeling. The winning student must then guess the gesture and if the winning 
student can guess the gesture correctly, then the losing student must give the winning student a 
point card. The students with the most point cards at the end wins. 
Example: 
Winning student: "How are you?" 
Losing student: “I’m…” (gestures being sad). 
Winning student: “SAD!” 
Losing students gives one point card to winning student.