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Hi,

I thought this might be good enough to share, and I probably take more than I give here, so when I have something I'm proud of, I'll contribute it.

Anyways, this is a follow-up activity to a book lesson about answering simple questions using to be verbs.  It could easily be used as a stand alone lesson.  So if you're focusing on grammar at all, this might be right up your alley.  The Powerpoint has a short lecture component followed by a guessing game starting with Brad Pitt, which I played in a team format.  If your students are able enough, you could make each question a race where they have to write it on a white board or piece of paper and then raise their hand and say the answer to get the point.   The other way to do it is to have the teams take turns, and give each a minute to answer.  If they don't have the correct answer in that amount of time,  the next team gets an opportunity to steal the point.  I based the way I played on class level.

The second part of the powerpoint is designed to teach them how  to ask the questions.  I wanted them to see that the beginning structure of the question remains the same while, while the object can change and the sentence will still be grammatically correct.  Then I paired them up, gave each a strip of paper with roleplay questions missing the to be verb and the object in each and had them practice  asking and answering questions in pairs.  Each person had to ask a question with one yes answer outcome and one no answer  outcome.  This part was a little confusing for students, so you may want to simplify it.  Maybe one student could ask a yes question and the other could ask a no question.  My goal though,  was to get them to see that simply changing the object of the question changes the answer.  Hope that makes sense, and hope you can use this. 

There's one slide in the PP with a picture of my coteacher.  The kids thought that was hilarious!   Anyways, you'll probably want to use yours instead.    Also, there's one of me with some of the third grade students.  Please change that one too.  Enjoy!  Let me know if you have any questions.

You can't?  Sorry.  Let me  try to post them  in a different format.  Also, are you using Firefox?  For some reason, it's not possible to download using Firefox lately.  Internet Explorer works though.  I'll also attach CLOZE sentences for a flyswatter review game (Get flyswatters, write missing words on board, divide the class into two teams, and have students compete in pairs to swat the missing word).   I also recently created celebrity cards and a bingo game that give students practice asking yes/no questions in a guess the celebrity game.   OK,  here you go!  Let me know  if  you have any more problems downloading them.

Not too many, but I posted another one about W-questions and possessive adjectives on another thread.  I also took a jumbled sentence game someone made on here, corrected and added slides to it.  I'll attach it for you.  Having them do word scrambles is a great activity for practicing grammar, I think.  I've also done it with cut out paper.  Those are easy to do, and you can easily do those yourself.   There's also a sentence reduction activity, but you might want to do it with a more advanced class.  Basically the rules are, each team removes one word or two words at a time, but the sentence must remain grammatically correct.  As long as it is they get a point for each.  If the sentence is no longer grammatically correct after they remove the words=no  points.  I hope that makes sense.  You can find it online too.