CLIL. ACTIVITIES FOR SHARING
Card #9
Luck of the Draw [SPEAKING]
Grade
No. students
No. Lessons
Lesson
Description
Smart Goal
Language Smart
Goal
Main Technique
Technique
description
Complexity for
teachers
Steps
2nd-4th
Subject
English
13-26
Unit
N/A
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Game used to practice spontaneous speaking, including vocabulary and different
grammatical structures.
a. Have fun coming up with spontaneous language.
This can be adapted depending on what the teacher would like to focus on.
Card game
Each card is assigned a task, so that when a student draws the card s/he has to
produce language for the given task.
Simple
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2
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Before lesson, teacher assigns a language task to each card, depending on what the
language focus is and prepares a set of vocabulary words to be used for some tasks
and a set of categories to be used for “A” – if desired. The sample below is a mixture
of activities:
Card
Nickname
Description of Task
#
Choose someone to make a sentence with a word
2
You
drawn from the bag
3
Me
Describe a word drawn from the bag
4
Four words
Say four words starting with the letter given
5
Hand jive
Make a gesture for a word or expression
Describe a movie, say a line from a movie, describe a
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Flicks
character from a movie
7
Heaven
Name something you love (food, to do, etc.)
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Hate
Name something you hate (food, to do, etc.)
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Rhyme
Pick a word that everyone has to rhyme with
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And then...
Start a story with “Once upon a time...”
Never have I
Everyone put up 2 fingers and say something that you
J
ever...
have never done
Q
Question
Ask a question to someone in the group
K
Rule
Make a rule that everyone has to follow
A
Categories
Draw a category from the bag
Teacher projects list of tasks and goes through them with students to ensure they
understand the tasks.
Teacher starts on one side of the room with the deck of cards and asks student to
draw the top card from the deck.
Student matches card number with the task and performs the task (i.e. For a four,
the teacher says “tell me four words that start with the letter ‘S’” and student says
“soup, sandwich, sit, sing”.)
Teacher continues student by student the same way.
All students participate because it is not voluntary. The game is light and fun and
sometimes collaborative (e.g. when creating a story, you add to what the person
before you said).
Shy students may feel embarrassed to be put on the spot in front of their peers,
especially when there is little thinking time. Teacher could adapt the activity to be
done in groups if s/he has more than one deck of cards.
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