MATERIALS1. "Giant Tic Tac Toe Board - Idioms"This excel file is for playing a game I call Giant Tic Tac Toe. My students like to basically think of it as a mash of tic tac toe and bingo. A team gets a point for getting a certain number of squares in a row. They also want to block the other team(s) from getting a complete set. To win the square, the students can either say what the idiom means in English or correctly use it in a sentence/situation. You decide which or modify to match your students. You could even make the squares have one or two words from which the teams must say the idiom. For example, the square could simply say "nine" and the students would need to say "on cloud nine." Now that I type that, I may try that myself. (Thanks for helping the creative juices flow by existing as a forum for sharing ideas and materials.)
NOTE: Just in case this is not clear, you change the color of the square to match the team's color when they win it.
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Idioms Hidden Pictures [template by waygook user teacher_del]"
This is fairly self-explanatory ppt game. @teacher_del provides an explanation at the end of the ppt file.
MAYBES (as in ideas for which I have yet to do any work)
1. I really like the idea of a
Go Fish! game. I think I will make one using idioms.
The conversation for students would go something like this:
Person 1: Have you heard of the idiom "________________"?
Person 2: [If the other student has the card] Yes, I have.
[If the other student doesn't have it] No, I haven't. What does it mean?
--> Person 1: It means "______________."
If I make those cards (and an explanatory ppt), I will post them....or if someone else wants to, that would be grand.
2. Comic StripsI will go online and find some comic strips with empty speech bubbles. I will give small groups of students a comic strip and instruct them to choose at least 2 of the idioms on the boards to insert into their comic's dialog.