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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 50: Writing basket for early finishers Ludmila Gerasimova – Russia Age: 7-10 2-10 minutes Large classes? Yes Mixed level? Yes Materials: Basket or boxes of some kind, laminated pictures, dry erase markers or non-permanent markers. Organisation: Individual work. Aim: To revise vocabulary. Description: A common problem for teachers is what to do when some children finish an activity before others. This simple activity asks children to write on picture cards and gives early finishers something to do while they are waiting for their classmates. Preparation: You need to prepare a writing basket (box) before class with pictures relevant to the vocabulary the children have studied. Glue the pictures to the card, leaving some space for writing. Laminate the pictures and put them in the basket together with dry erase or non-permanent marker pens. Procedure 1. Children who have finished an activity early each take a picture from the basket and write the word underneath. 2. The child shows the completed card to the teacher. 3. If the word is correct, the child can then take another card from the basket and so on until the class is ready to move to the next activity. Notes Although this may take some time initially, you can build up a collection of pictures to be used again and again. If the teacher is too busy to check the cards, the children can hold onto their completed cards to be checked later. 106 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Alternatives • Rather than find all the pictures yourself, you could ask the children to cut up and bring to school pictures of the vocabulary they have learned. • This activity could be used to revise lexical sets rather than single words or phrases. A picture of a room could be used to revise furniture, for example, or a picture of a landscape to revise geographical features. Make sure you leave enough space for the children to write all the words, perhaps by having a large border around the picture. • This activity could also be used to revise certain structures, such as the present continuous Choose pictures showing scenes of activity and ask the children to write what is happening. No resources? If you do not have access to a laminator, you can still use pictures but the children can write the words in their note books, or on the blackboard/whiteboard. If you don’t have access to suitable pictures, you can fill the basket with realia (real objects) instead. Children write the words in their books rather than on the object. © British Council 2012 107
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