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The EFL Playhouse: A Resource for ESL/EFL Teachers of Young Learners

Silly Sentences

Skills: combining adjectives, nouns, and verbs to create sentences
Group Size: 4 to 24
Prep Time: > 20 minutes
Playing Time: 5-20 minutes
Interest Level: ages 6 to 15
Ability Level: beginning to lower intermediate

Create three sets of cards. The first should contain simple adjectives; the second, common nouns; and the third, basic verbs. Following are lists of suggested words:


Place all three sets of cards face down on the table. Make sure that the three sets remain in separate stacks. The first student draws the top card and from any stack he or she chooses and reads the word on it. He or she then uses the word in a sentence. If the sentence is correct, the student may keep the card.

Adjectives

Nouns

Verbs

[color words]
[number words]
short
tall
long
old
young
new
kind
mean
good
bad
wet
dry
hot
cold
big
little
ugly
pretty
first
last
rich
poor
smart

boy
girl
man
woman
dog
cat
bird
fish
home
car
bus
truck
park
store
tree
grass
flower
game
class
ball
doll
pen
pencil
crayon
book

run
walk
sit
stand
eat
shop
sleep
go
stop
write
paint
sing
jump
dance
play
study
bake
draw
color
work
wash
clean
cry
laugh
talk

The next student then draws a card from the stack of his or her choice and uses it in a sentence. As before, the student wins the card if the sentence is correct. If the student can use both the word he or she has drawn and the card previously drawn in a sentence, he or she wins both cards.

The third student draws a card from the stack of his or her choice and uses the word correctly in a sentence for the card. This student may win any of the previously drawn cards by using those words in his or her sentence as well.

Play continues, until all cards have been disbursed. The student who has the most cards wins.

Variation: To use this game with younger students, you may substitute picture cards for word cards; however, this greatly increase prep. time.

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