TITLE : Letter Name Game

SUBMITTED BY : Dave Armour

SUBJECT AREA CONTENT : Any

GRADE LEVEL : Beginner Intermediate

TIME FRAME : 10 ~ 15 minutes

OBJECTIVES :

1. learn to pronounce and spell each others' names

2. get aquainted with each other

PROCEDURES:

1. Each student receives a strip of paper.

2. Students walk around the class and find out the names of their classmates, writing down their classmates' names if the names have a given letter in the spelling.

MATERIALS :

The teacher should make a copy of the page below and cut it into strips. Each student will need one strip.

Rule :

Students cannot ask a person specifically about a letter in his/her name. Students must ask about the whole name.

 Comments :

For a pronunciation class, a sound can be substituted for a letter.

1. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'm' in their name.

2. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'e' in their name.

3. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'w' in their name.

4. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'o' in their name.

5. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 't' in their name.

6. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 's' in their name.

7. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'a' in their name.

8. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'i' in their name.

9. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'j' in their name.

10. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'r' in their name.

11. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'c' in their name.

12. Find out how many people in the class have the letter 'h' in their name.

Other Reinforcement Resources:

  Lesson Plans :

ESL Teacher Connection - provides an open forum in which teachers of English as a Second Language can share their own successful class activities and lesson plans with other teachers.

TESL : Teaching English as a Second Language - lesson plans and other resources for the busy ESL/EFL teacher.

AskERIC Lesson Plans

Language Learning Software/Educational Software :

Deixis Software - interactive mutimedia software for learning English as a second or foreign language.
Kids Domain - contains many educational software which can be downloaded.