Personal development, Teambuilding
Art and culture, Teambuilding and empowerment
15 min.
Large group, Small group
Upto 15 min
Materials needed
Advanced, Moderate
Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading
Creativity
Learning to learn
Objectives
- The learner can consolidate new words.
- The learner can learn a text by heart.
Material
- Black board or something similar.
Preparation
- Write a poem or a short story on the board.
Instructions
- Read the text out loud.
- Read it out loud together with the learners.
- Let the learners read the text out loud (without your assistance).
- Explain new words.
- Wipe out a few words, such as the first and last word, while the learners are learning the text by heart.
- Ask a first learner to delete one or more words, then a second learner and so on.
- Once the whole text has been wiped out, let the learners reconstruct the tekst.
Variant
- Delete parts of words.
- Delete a specific word type: all articles, all verbs, all nouns, all adjectives, all prepositions…
- Let the learners reconstruct the text in pairs.