Hidden words, at the zoo, chain game

A student throws a dice 

each student writes a sentence about the picture 

student takes in turn playing this game

Yesterday, students had some activities in learning English, they were "at the zoo" and "hidden words". These are to learn how to revise animal vocabulary and produce simple sentences in describing an animal. These activities are the ideas from Raisa Dukajska (Latvia) and Iryna Sukhodolska (Ukraine). Using these activities, students could practice some vocabularies and describing animal in an interesting way. First, students played the hidden words game. Then, they had to find a name of animal in a sentence written on the white board. This is very challenging and they liked it. After that, they had 'at the zoo' to extend the previous activity. Here, students had to write a sentence about six pictures of animals in turn by throwing a dice. Number on a dice corresponds a number of animal on the board. So, it goes on, until all animals have been described. After having both activities, students played chain game about the same topic. This idea comes from Eliana Fernandez Malla (Dominican Republic/Latvia). Each player/student must add a list of word in turn. Start from the main sentence on the board (The children visit the zoo and see an elephant, ....), until the sentence becomes longer and longer. At last, student repeated the long sentence.

Thank you very much Raisa, Iryna, and Eliana for sharing the ideas, these are really helpful and inspiring.