This week in our English classroom, we continued working with our story Where’s My Red Ball? through two interactive activities that helped us practise listening, speaking and early writing skills in a fun and meaningful way.
The first activity was a Bingo game. But not a traditional vocabulary bingo! Instead of calling out single words, students listened to complete sentences such as:
👉 The red ball is on the table.
👉 The red ball is under the chair.
They had to listen carefully, understand the full sentence, and identify the correct picture on their bingo card. This helped them practise understanding full sentences, not just isolated words. It also reinforced prepositions of place (in, on, under) and furniture vocabulary in a natural context.
The game created excitement and motivation, but at the same time it required concentration and careful listening. When someone called “Bingo!”, they had to read their sentences aloud to check them together as a class. This gave us another opportunity to practise speaking in full sentences.
The second activity was Build the Sentence. In this task, students worked with picture cards and word cards to construct sentences such as:
👉 The red ball is under the table.
They chose a picture, organised the word cards in the correct order, and then said the sentence aloud.
This activity combined:
- Oral expression
- Understanding sentence structure
- Manipulative writing
- Early reading skills
By physically moving and organising the word cards, students better understood how English sentences are structured. The hands-on element makes grammar more concrete and accessible at this age.
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Both activities allowed students to practise the same sentence structure in different ways: first by listening and recognising it, and then by building and producing it themselves.
Learning happens step by step — listening, speaking, building, and finally writing. And when learning feels like a game, confidence grows naturally.
Esta semana seguimos traballando a historia Where’s My Red Ball? con dúas actividades moi motivadoras. Primeiro xogamos a un Bingo, no que o alumnado tiña que escoitar frases completas como The red ball is on the table e buscar a imaxe correcta no seu cartón. Así practicamos a comprensión oral e o vocabulario. Despois realizamos a actividade Build the Sentence, na que o alumnado utilizou tarxetas de palabras e imaxes para construír frases como The red ball is under the table. Primeiro ordenaban as palabras e despois dicían a frase en voz alta ..
Deste xeito practicamos a mesma estrutura primeiro escoitando e despois construíndo as frases. Aprender xogando fai que o inglés sexa máis motivador e significativo.
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