Fly Swatter

Fly swatter is an engaging listening activity in which students compete to identify target vocabulary by swatting the target word or image. It can be executed in a teacher centered way with the teacher standing at the front of board and calling vocabulary or in a more student centered way in where students are playing in small groups with 1 student calling the vocabulary and the other students swatting the images.

Procedure:

1) Present or review target vocabulary.

2) Place images or words on the board.

3) Demonstrate "Listen and touch the picture"

4) Call 2 students to the board to repeat the procedure. Identify the first one to touch the image enthusiactically as "the winner!"

5) Divide the students into 2-3 teams.

6) Call one student from each team to per turn. Repeat as much as you'd like.

7) To make it more student centered have students take turns calling vocabulary at the front of the room or while playing in small groups.