Like & Don’t like TPR coin game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Like and don't like + nouns and gerunds practice with a fun miming game, starting with suggested things to act out their positive and negative feelings about.
Lesson Plan Content:
Like don’t like TPR coin game
Choose one of the phrases below to mime. Before you start doing that action, secretly flip a coin. If you get heads, mime a positive “I like…” sentence about the thing on your card, e.g. someone enjoying an ice cream or someone smiling while doing karate. If you get tails, mime a negative “I don’t like…” sentence about that thing, e.g. someone holding a tea cup and saucer and frowning or sticking out their tongue each time that they sip from a cup. You can show your positive or negative feelings with your face, your body language, how quickly or slowly you do something, etc, but you can’t make any sounds. The first person in your class to say the whole correct “I (don’t) like…” sentence that you are miming gets one point.
Things to mime like and disliking
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… playing football (= soccer) |
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… ice cream. |
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… painting. |
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…tea. |
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…karate. |
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…horse riding. |
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…bananas. |
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…crisps (= potato chips). |
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…massages. |
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…stroking dogs. |
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…bird watching. |
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…playing tennis. |
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…cooking. |
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…cleaning the house. |
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…washing up (= doing the dishes). |
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…running/ jogging. |
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…boxing/ fighting/ doing karate. |
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…playing computer games. |
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…using a computer. |
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…riding a bike. |
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…apples. |
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…carrots. |
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…fishing. |
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…singing/ karaoke. |
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…butterflies. |
Ask about anything above that you can’t understand, couldn’t mime, etc, working together as a class to make both “like” mimes and “don’t like” mimes for each.
Do the same miming game, but with your own ideas for “I (don’t) like…” sentences. Write a sentence that can be mimed, flip the coin, then mime your positive or negative feelings.
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