I put together a little activity to throw some movement into the classroom that gets the students practicing the language for 1st grade in chapter 4, Listen and Speak I (page 49). Good for medium to high level, but could be modified for low level (you'll need more support in explaining the directions for low level, too).
Get students into groups if it is convenient, but I just keep them in their rows and have each row be a group.
There are six different "character pages"; print them out and tape them to different areas of the room. I covered the text with an additional flap of paper to discourage cheating.
There are two roles that every student will have at one point in the game: "writer" (student doing the listening and writing), and the "runner" (student moving to the character pages, reading them, and reciting the info back to the writer).
Give the first student in each group the worksheet; they will write first. You may also tell each group to start on different "character pages" (group 1 - start with Mary, group 2 - Bob...) so that the runners aren't banging into each other.
The idea is that a student on the team will write while a different student runs to the correct character page, remembers the information on the character page, and then runs back to their teammate to recite the information. There should never be more than ONE student from each team standing at a time - deduct points from any team with more than one student standing.
After the first student has written, they pass the paper to the next teammate and stand up to gather the info on the next character page (so the "writer" then becomes the "runner").
If you are playing in rows, to begin the game the last person in the line will be the "runner" for the writer (who is in first position). In a circular group that won't matter!
The first team to complete there sheet wins!
