Talking Corners

KINESTHETIC ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSROOM

TALKING CORNERS  
Age level - Teens and above
Proficiency level - Low intermediate and above
Material - Slips in big print
Objective - To allow students to practice various skills in a non-threatening manner.


Prepare sheets (big print) with questions, discussion topics, sentences to be matched, combined, corrected, completed, etc. Any topic will do for this kind of exercise. Place the sheets around the classroom, far enough from each other so that pairs cannot hear each other. Pairs walk around, performing the task in each corner and moving on at the teacher’s command. (Remember: if you have 18 students, you will need 9 sheets, and so on).

Variation – If you don’t want your students to be walking around, have them sit in pairs and move the papers around.

Examples of tasks that can be used in this activity

1) GRAMMAR

1a) Men have abilities. Women have abilities. (Both, Neither, Either, None????)

1b) There ___________ several leisure options in my town.

1c) ________________________? No, I didn't. I had to study for my Math test.

1d) Correct the sentence if it is wrong: Yesterday I have seen a great movie.

(answer: I saw)

2) VOCABULARY

2a) Give a synonym for "rescue". 

(answer: save)

2b) "Rescue" means: (   )crawl               (   )save            
 (   )suffer

(answer: save)

2c) Unscramble the letters to form a word that completes the sentence:

"The ________ team was able to reach the victims in time to save them. (UCERES)  

(answer: rescue)

3) CONVERSATION STARTERS

3a) Teenagers should only get an allowance if they help around the house. Agree or disagree?

3b) How would you react if you had an encounter with a real ET?

3c) If I had a million dollars, ......