Run and Write

incl. materials

oral

45 min.

Objectives

• The learner can pronounce texts correctly.
• The learner can spell correctly.

Materials

• Paper & Pens
• Tables

Preparation

Choose or write a text, related to known topics.

Instructions

• Divide the group into tandems: a ‘writer’ and a ‘runner’.
• Let the writers sit down, with paper and pen.
• Let the runners stand a few meters away from their tandem writer, each with the text on a table behind them.
• Each runner reads and memorizes as much as s/he can, runs to his writer and dictates what s/he remembers. A runner is not allowed to write!
• Each writer writes down what s/he hears. S/he can ask the writer to repeat and to spell if necessary.
• Once a tandem has finished, the instructor checks if there are no mistakes. The instructor indicates the misspelled words; the tandem corrects.
• The first tandem to complete a correctly spelled text, is the winner.

Tips for the instructor

• Tell the learners it is easier to remember and dictate sentence per sentence.
• Choose the length of the text according to the group level.