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Activity 3 Play “Cross the river.”
Objective: to repeat the school things
before you start the activity, you should hang all the flash-
cards describing the school things on the blackboard and have the 
class repeat all the words in chorus. Then ask the pupils to say all 
the flashcards quickly in order one by one: pen, pencil, bag, book, 
copybook, ruler, crayon. You should also explain that if a pupil 
forgets a word, s/he can skip it and say the other words. The 
most important thing is that the pupils should say at least 5–6 
words. After each pupil you must change the places of the words 
on the blackboard so that pupils won’t memorise their order. 
First, invite the volunteers. As usual, they will be strong 
pupils who can quickly cope with the task. The remaining pupils 
who either do not want or cannot do the task, should be given 
easer extra tasks. You should attach capable pupils to the weak 
ones in order to enable them to say a few objects.
You should also explain to the pupils that there are no good 
and bad pupils, and have them understand not all are able to 
learn english quickly. You must explain to the pupils that the 
capable and weak pupils are equally important to you. And eve-
ryone should try.