Games For Primary School

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INTRODUCTION
Revise the names of clothes a t the beginning of the lesson by quickly writing on the board some of the clothes the children are wearing and their colours. Make sure you include skirt, jumper, shoes, trousers and T-shirt. Give the children one minute t o look aroundthe class and decide who is wearing these items of clothing. They copy down the item of clothing and add the name of the child who is wearing it, e.g. a red jumper - Maria. Ask a couple of children seated in different places in the class t o say their list. Check as a class.

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Give each child a copy of Sheet 4 and show them how to colour in the clothes by doing two or threeyourself. Make sure they understand that the words are not next t o the pictures they describe, so they have t o match up the pictures and text carefully before they start t o colour. Once the children have finished colouring, ask them to fold the page in half lengthways along the central, vertical dotted line. They then cut along this line (Fig. I) and along the other vertical lines (Fig. 2). It isimportant t o do these stages in steps with the children so that they do not cut along the solid lines and ruin the cards! See the diagram below: Fig. 2

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Then they take one half, fold over the first card and cut along the dotted line (Fig 3). Continue so that the children are cutting each card at a time. D o the samewith'the remaining half until the children have fourteen individual cards. Fig. 3

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Arrange the class into groups of three and ask them t o mix all their cards together face down on their tables. Each child takes seven 'dominoes'. The remaining cards are left face-down on one side of the table. The oldest child begins by laying down thefirst domino on the table. The next child tries t o place one of his o r her cards on either side of the first one. They can only do this if they have a domino which matches one side of the first one. Dominoes should be matched -TEXT - PICTURE - TEXT - PICTURE etc. and never TEXT - 'TEXT o r PICTURE - PICTURE, e.g.

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The game continues witheach child laying down a domino in turn. If one of the children cannot lay down a domino, they must take another one from the remaining pack on the table and wait until their next turn before laying down another domino. The winner is the first child t o use up all the dominoes in his o r her hand.

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Extra ideasThe same game can be played using pictures and words for other vocabulary areas,for example adjectives (e.g. a tall woman, a fat man etc).
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Suggestion: The children can make up the cubes for homework.

IN'IRODUCTION
Give the children a series of instructions and ask them t o carry them out. Make sure you include practice of in and on so that the children understand the difference.PREPARATION
Give out a copy of Sheet 5 and Sheet 6 t o each group of four children. Show them how to make cubes.

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Make sure each group of four children has both cubes. Divide the groups of four into two teams of two, Team A and Team B. Write up the following prepositions on the board for reference: in, on, under. Team A in each group begins by throwing each cube once. They then say asentence out loud, using the words they have thrown and adding a preposition (either in, on or under) t o make a logical and correct instruction, e.g. Put a pen in the cupboard but not Put a pen in the board. If Team B agrees that the instruction is correct, Team A scores a point. Team B then carries out the instruction. They too score a point if they carry out the instruction correctly. Team B...