Active Topic-Based Game
There Is, There Are
Main Idea: Students accurately count and tally as a team and form grammatically correct sentences individually for their team to get the most possible points. Supplies and Set-Up: - Have 2 clipboards, each with a paper that has numbers 1-10 spaced out as a left side column. - Have 1 whiteboard and dry-erase markers.
Instructions: 1. Divide students into two teams. Give each team their clipboard. 2. Using the whiteboard, show students how to tally numbers.
3. Say that they will tally to give the answer to 10 questions on their clipboard. 4. Give questions with numerical answers one at a time, such as “How many windows/doors are there in the classroom?” “How many students are there?” How many chairs are there in this room? How many pencils are on this desk?) 5. To check the answers, have one student from each team give the first answer in the form of “There is # [object or person]” for singular terms and “There are # [objects or people] for plural terms. The team gets one point if the number is correct and another point if they formed the sentence correctly. For the remaining questions, have different students on each team answer to give everyone at least one chance to represent their team.
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