2011 Mercan School Fred Poole Edition 01 GAME AND ACTIVITY BOOK “Good Teachers are the best thieves” Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................... 5 Warm-Up Games .......................................................................................................... 6 1. Simon Says ...................................................................................................... 6 2. Knock-Knock Race .......................................................................................... 6 3. Opposites ......................................................................................................... 7 4. Alphabet Relay Race ....................................................................................... 7 5. Alphabet Acronym Race .................................................................................. 8 6. The Gauntlet .................................................................................................... 8 7. Word Count Race ............................................................................................ 9 8. Vocabulary Tennis ........................................................................................... 9 9. Don’t say Yes or No ....................................................................................... 10 10. Drawing Letters on the Back .......................................................................... 10 11. Word Mix ........................................................................................................ 11 12. Bad Grammar ................................................................................................ 11 13. Schrades .......................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 14. Circle Race .................................................................................................... 12 15. Question Game .............................................................................................. 12 16. Run and Touch the Color ............................................................................... 13 17. Group Grab .................................................................................................... 13 18. Tongue Twisters ............................................................................................ 13 19. Tiger ............................................................................................................... 14 20. Around the World ........................................................................................... 14 21. Chain Game ................................................................................................... 14 22. Code Breaker ................................................................................................. 15 23. Red Rover ...................................................................................................... 15 24. Telephone Game ........................................................................................... 15 25. Hot Potato Speaking ...................................................................................... 16 26. Balloon with Words ........................................................................................ 16 27. Three Truths, Two Lies .................................................................................. 16 28. Blind Student .................................................................................................. 17 29. Beat the Desk for Syllables ............................................................................ 17 30. Things in a Bag .............................................................................................. 17 31. Number Claps ................................................................................................ 18 Mercan School | 1 32. Board Slap ..................................................................................................... 18 33. Double Fists of Furry ...................................................................................... 18 34. Verb Review ................................................................................................... 19 35. I spy ............................................................................................................... 19 36. 20 Questions .................................................................................................. 19 37. Toilet Paper Madness .................................................................................... 19 38. Toothpicks ...................................................................................................... 20 39. Run and Draw ................................................................................................ 20 40. What’s missing? ............................................................................................. 20 41. Obstacle Course Run to the board ................................................................. 21 42. Run to the word .............................................................................................. 21 43. Loud Quiet find Card ...................................................................................... 21 44. Fake Speaker ................................................................................................. 21 45. Catch the Card ............................................................................................... 22 46. Name Game ................................................................................................... 22 47. Freeze TAG ................................................................................................... 23 General Games ........................................................................................................... 23 48. Harry Potter .................................................................................................... 23 49. Circle Race #2 ............................................................................................... 23 50. Trade Cards Games ...................................................................................... 24 51. Run Through Legs ......................................................................................... 25 52. Hot Potato #2 ................................................................................................. 26 53. Line-UP #1 ..................................................................................................... 26 54. Go Fish .......................................................................................................... 26 55. Line UP#2 ...................................................................................................... 27 56. Duck-Duck Goose (She-He - IT) .................................................................... 27 57. Doctor-Doctor ................................................................................................. 27 58. What time is it Mr. Wolf .................................................................................. 28 59. Fast and the Dead ......................................................................................... 28 60. Auction ........................................................................................................... 28 61. Leap Frog ....................................................................................................... 29 62. Re-order the Sentence ................................................................................... 30 63. Dialogue Race ............................................................................................... 30 64. Bring the parts together.................................................................................. 31 Mercan School | 2 65. Liar Liar .......................................................................................................... 31 66. Reading Race ................................................................................................ 32 67. Body Match Up .............................................................................................. 32 68. Floor ESL Chess ............................................................................................ 32 Review Games ............................................................................................................ 34 69. Battleship ....................................................................................................... 34 70. Snakes and Ladders ...................................................................................... 35 71. Mafia .............................................................................................................. 35 72. Risk ................................................................................................................ 36 73. Territory Grab ................................................................................................. 37 74. Heads up 7-up ............................................................................................... 38 75. Newspaper Sumo-Wrestling .......................................................................... 38 76. Flash Card Wrestling ..................................................................................... 39 77. Chair Swapping Game ..................................................................................