Hungry Birds

Have you ever played hungry birds? 
Every May we have to feed our newborn chicks with... guess what!!! .......word pasta!!!!!  
An enjoyable game to recycle and revisit vocabulary and to reinforce memory, understanding and acquisition. It can be played with word families or any classification activity.

Our Spelling Bee Competition awards.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE WITH MR BEAN

Learning English is Fun- Prepositions by Bogiou Theodora

This is how my A' juniors practise prepositions and house related vocabulary.

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - Conditionals

Are you ready to "hit the road"?
This game "drives us crazy"!!!
It can be played to practise conditionals with the if-clauses on the cards and the main clauses on the parking spaces.
How? One student reads the card, a second student parks the car on the matching parking space and the rest of the students act out the sentence.
It is ideal for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners.
Alternatively, it can be played with letters on the parking spaces and words with missing letters on the cards, matching action cards and clauses of purpose, result or relative clauses.

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - The weather

If you are feeling "under the weather", there is a game that can help you "unwind".

It is a fun way to talk about the weather and practice weather-related vocabulary (hail, drizzle, stormy) as well as present a weather forecast or make suggestions (We'd better..., We should..., Let's..., Why don't we...?).

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - Homophones, antonyms, minimal pairs

Do you like word dominoes?

Do homophones give you a hard time?

Then, this game will "stick" those tricky words in your mind.

Alternatively, it can be used with antonyms or minimal pairs.

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - Nouns, ordinal numbers

How many blocks of flats are there in the noun town?
How many floors are there in your block of flats?
Which words live on the twelfth floor?
Building Blocks can build up learners' grammatical competence along with their motor skills.

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - Oral Prompts

Do you have 3' to spare?
Then these oral prompts is all you need. Students pick 5 sticks each and "speak their mind" in pairs.
This game is bound to boost your students' communicative and pragmatic competence, as they have to make themselves understood, answer a question just by listening to it, give an appropriate response. Useful language can be written at the back where necessary.
Ideal for learners with short attention span as well as fidgety ones.
The sticks can also be used as random name pickers for pair or group work.

Happy mnemonics by Bogiou Theodora - Tenses

Building Blocks can build up learners' grammatical and syntactic competence along with their motor skills. This game is particularly useful for visual and kinaestetic learners but also for auditory ones if combined with a catchy tense song. All they have to remember is how many blocks they used to build each tense.

 Building materials for Present S., Present Pr., Past S., Past Pr.:

different coloured blocks for subjects and verbs
4 sides of one block for the auxiliary verbs
3 sides of another block for the inflectional morphemes necessary for the formation of those tenses.