Sports salad

Objectives

The learner can understand treated vocabulary.

Materials

• Something to mark the positions on the floor
• Little papers with an image of a physical activity. For each activity there must be at least two papers.
• Little papers with an instruction for a physical activity, e.g. Run! Swim! Jump! Throw!

Instructions

• Form a circle; one learner stands in the middle of the circle.
• Give every learner a paper with an icon on.
• Check if the learners know the name of the activity.
• Let the learner in the middle take a paper with an instruction out of a box.
• S/he shouts the instruction.
• The learners who have the corresponding icon, must switch places.
• In the meantime, the learner in the middle tries to get a spot in the circle.
• A learner who has lost his/her position, now stands in the middle and gives a new instruction.
• If the learner in the middle shouts Olympic Games, all learners must switch places.

Variant

• The learner in the middle can give several instructions at the same time.
• You can restrict the way how to switch places, e.g. only by jumping or by walking backwards.