The Alphabet Island

Language Focus: Listening, vocabulary & Spelling building
Usage Level: All Level
Notes:
The game can be played with many modifications as in accordance to the necessity and the students’ level of competence. The students will be able to recognize English sounds through its alphabets. Then for the higher level can be added the vocabulary and spelling skill by asking them to present the words derived from the alphabets and spell them.

Materials:
1. List of words in several setting and theme (kitchen, bathroom, dining room, fruit, animals, sports, etc)
2. blank sheets of paper
3. pens or pencils
4. chalk
Method:
The teacher prepares the setting first by putting the alphabets (in papers or chalk drawing) in the center of the field in correct order and or for challenging one, can be scrambled.
The game starts by having the students in 5 to 8 to make a long line in front of the alphabets islands. The teacher, then, asks the students to run and make a circle around the letter mentioned by the teacher, the loser is he/she who cannot join the circle or the slowest one. For modification, you may read a sentence explaining on thing with the first letter of the alphabets, and then ask them (the students) to spell the word.
EXAMPLE: Teacher = every morning I usually drink a glass of milk. The word Milk starts with the letter…(then the students run to the letter M)
Teacher = OK, great! Now I want A to spell the word MILK
A = It’s M-I-L-K
Teacher = Wow, superb! Great one for you

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