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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 34: Take the yellow one! Gordon Hunter – China Age: 6–8 20 minutes Large classes? No Mixed level? Yes Materials: Large number of coloured pencils/pens/crayons (at least 30). Organisation: Whole class. Aim: To practise colours and prepositions of place and to list items. Description: Children pick up pencils in response to the teacher’s instructions. They then describe what pencils they have. Preparation: No preparation is needed for this activity. Procedure 1. Check the children know colours by picking up individual pencils and asking, ‘What colour is this?’ You might want to introduce the adjectives ‘dark’ and ‘light’ to describe the colours if you have different shades. 2. Check the children know prepositions of place by putting one of the coloured pencils in different positions and asking the children where it is. 3. Ask the children to stand round a central table. Tip the coloured pencils on to the table. 4. Ask the children to take pencils in the following way: Tomoko, take the yellow pencil next to the green one. Chen, take the blue pencil between the pink and the orange one. Jean, take the red pencil under the dark green one. 5. Nominate a child to become the teacher and let them give the instructions. If you have a lot of pencils, you can divide the class into groups, and the role of the teacher can be taken by a different child in each group. 6. All children should now have some pencils. Model the second part of the activity, in which children practise lists and substitution: In my hand, I have two green pencils, a yellow one and a blue one. 7. Children take it in turns to describe what pencils they have. 74 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Alternatives • You can mix up pens, pencils and crayons, which makes it a little harder! • You can add to or change the final text the children say. For example, they can say: In my hand I have two green pencils, a yellow pencil and a blue one. I like the blue one best. Jean has a blue pen and a yellow crayon. I have more than him! The children can also write down their texts. No resources? You do not need to have pens or pencils for this game. You can gather lots of different objects from the children. For example, you could gather an exercise book, a pencil, some chalk, a stone, and a handkerchief – whatever is to hand. You can then proceed in the same way. © British Council 2012 75
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