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3/07/2013

Can you play basketball in your classroom?

For a while I've been working on to help my students about the difference between present simple and present continuous. It's OK when I first teach them but right after we study a new topic they forget the basic rules .Then, I decided to make a revision activity.The details of the game are below: Teacher prepares two basketball hoops and sticks them on the board or you can use real, mobile ones that kids play at home. Over them, stick titles as "EVERYDAY" AND "TODAY". Then, put a sack or a basket under each hoop.Divide the class in two and ask them to line up in front of each hoop and basket. Give a sack full of balls with target verbs on them, to each group and tell the rules.Teacher plays a catchy music while students are trying to throw a ball from their own sacks to their own hoops one by one.Both groups will race at the same time. When the music stops,teacher counts the balls inside the basket and announces the winner. Then, beginning with the winner group, students come one by one, picks a ball from their own sack, look at the verb on the ball and try to make a sentence using that verb according to their tense: present or present continuous.This goes on same with both groups till they finish all the verbs in their baskets. You can use this with all age levels. If yours is a higher level, you can ask them to make sentences which are connected to each other and forms a story. You or one of the students can write the sentences while they are telling them. At the end, each group can read their own story out loud. You might have really funny stories. I wish it works in your class, too. Have fun:)

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