30-45 minutes Any Review sentence structures and verb tenses
- Use easy sentences for less advanced students
- Use more complex sentences for more advanced students
Preparation:
- Make a series of sentences, three more than the number of teams in your class
- Print the sentences in large text
- Cut each sentence into separate words
- Put each sentence into its separate envelopes
- Number each envelope with a marker
Instructions:
- Diving the class into pairs or small groups
- Give each team one envelope
- Students arrange the words into a correct sentence, copy it into their notebooks, and put words back into envelope
- When finished, students say the sentence, show their notebooks, and bring their envelope to the teacher
- If sentence is not correct, they go back and fix the error
- If sentence is correct, they can swap their envelope for a new one with a different sentence
- The first team to unscramble all of the sentences is the winner
