1. 11.- THE CATERPILLAR GAME
11.-
LEVEL: Intermediate (B1)
TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Class competition
SKILLS: Speaking (vocabulary)
AIM
• (warm-up) To elicit the vocabulary on sport students have.
• (wind-up) To revise vocabulary on sport.
. . . .
. A
8 8
B
7 7
6
LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL AREA 5
6
5
• Sport vocabulary. 4
4
3
3
2
2
TASK 1 1
• Playing The Caterpillar Game in open class (two teams).
PREPARATION AND MATERIALS
• PowerPoint presentation of The Caterpillar Game.
• A coin for every team.
TIMING
+ 15 minutes .
PROCEDURE
• Divide the class into two teams (A and B). Appoint a secretary in each team.
• The secretaries’ role will be to toss the coin for their team. If it is heads, you
move one space; if tails, two spaces.
• The teams take it in turns to toss the coin.
• Each team must answer the question they fall on correctly (the teacher will
show the right answer straightaway). Anyone in the team can attempt to
answer the question.
• If they get the answer wrong, the team misses a turn.
• The first team to reach the head and answer question 8 correctly will win the
game.
• Before explaining the rules of the game play the whistle on the first slide.
• It can be played as a warm-up to gauge the students’ control of sport vocabulary
before a lesson on sport.
• Also, it can be played as a wind-up for a lesson on sport to revise vocabulary.