Player A - ESL Galaxy

1 Copyright 2006 Futonge Kisito & upwashFreeFreewearstudyplaydrinkreadeatP resent simple or present continuous?What time the momentEvery s FootballSkills to practice:Practice using present tenses. Present continuous and present simple. Note that we use thepresent simple for habitual actions and the present continuous for one going actions in thepresent. A good idea is to pre-teach this grammar point and use the game for Levels: This game is suitable for beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate Englishlanguage learners-ESL, ESOL, TEFL, TESOL : Cut out the game resources below. Cut out the balls or players and use asmarkersHow to the cue words in the orange rectangles and combine with a verb in the whitetriangles to make full sentences.

2 Students should change the verbs according to thetense and number. If the cue word has a question sign then they are expected to makequestions every correct sentence the students can advance one space ahead from each sideof the other team or Player must listen carefully to spot the mistakes. If there isn t anymistake in the sentence, the Player can keep his/her there is a mistake the team or Player gets a yellow card and move back one step. Ifno mistake they keep their captured space. The other team takes its turn to combinecue words and keys words to make sentences. Every successful sentence means theyretain the space and prepare to teams (players) keep advancing until they meet on one space. When they meetthey do ROCKS, PAPER and SCISSORS.

3 The team that looses the ROCKS, PAPER &SCISSORS guess, gets a red card and goes back to start. The winning side continuesuntil they meet again. Every time they, meet they do rocks, paper, and scissors to seewho gets a red card. The team that gets to the other team s goal, players get to the centre, it is a FREE space so they can create any sentencethey you decide to continue, try different key words or swap sides after the first free to adapt this game for your classes as you like. Also feel free to modify oradd for large classes:This game is a board game, but can also be played in a large class. Photocopy the game on anA3 or larger paper size, or project in on a projector if your class has one.

4 Use blue tag to stickteam players as they 2006 Futonge & Game equipmentCopyright 2006 Futonge & APlayer BCardsCopyright 2006 Futonge & 2006 Futonge & game set up for large classes can look like 2006 Futonge &