Miming Games

 Miming Games

TPR (total physical response) is a good learning method and children love miming activities; whether it is the traditional Teacher Says (based on the popular game Simon Says) or simply a last student (or first student!) to do the correct action is ‘out’ type of game.

So to be clear, a miming game can be

1. Teachers Says

2. Last Student to do the mine has to sit down (the final student left is the winner).

3. First student to do the mime can sit down (the team with the most students left standing at the end are the losers)

4. Or a mime, mime, mime, mime, 5,4,3,2, 1 sit down in your chairs!  Similar to the This, That game.

Words or flashcards can be put on the whiteboard to remind students of the vocabulary.

Whiteboard

Watch TV             Wake up              Jump

Brush your teeth                     Fly                 Sleep

Open your book                                 Dance

Combined with other games, this type of activity can give a varied and energetic pace to your class. For example, you could start with The Basic Drill, follow this with an Association Drill, then play a Miming Game and afterwards play Hit. Using such a combination of activities can be a great way to either introduce or review such items of language.