INCOMPLETE  SONGS

To select words in order to make meaningful sentences to identify adjectives, verbs and nouns and their place in a sentence.

Materials

Transcripts of songs known to the whole class.

A set of yellow cards with nouns written on them.

A set of green cards with verbs written on them.

A set of cards with adjectives written on them.

Envelopes

LANGUAGE FOCUS

General vocabulary

(nouns, verbs and adjectives)

Playing the Game

• Type the lyrics of several songs on different sheets of paper, leaving nine blanks in each song (3nouns, 3 verbs and 3 adjectives)

• Write the missing nouns on yellow cards, the missing verbs on green cards and the missing adjectives on red cards.

• Put the songs and their missing words in different envelopes.

• Divide class into groups and each group takes an envelope.

• They have 4 minutes to complete the song with the missing words.

• Once they have finished, each group sings their version of the song.

• The group scores one point for every word correctly placed.

• After three rounds, the group with the highest score is the winner.

NB      Discuss the right and mistaken answers with the students  J