Fruit Salad
Level: A1 (young learners)
Aim: to practise Present Simple 3rd person singular questions and short answers; fruit vocabulary
Materials: four baskets/four bowls, toy fruit (one of the each fruit drawn on the poster), 3 posters depicting fruit and smiling/sad faces of a boy, a girl and a rabbit next to the fruit (put up on the whiteboard/wall)
Students are divided into 3 teams. A bowl/basket of fruit is placed on a chair opposite the whiteboard/wall where the posters are put up. The chair is strategically placed in the classroom so that each team stands away from it at approximately the same distance. A bowl/a basket is put on the floor under each poster. There is one student from each team standing next to one of the posters facing his/her team mates who are standing in a line one behind the other. One student from each team takes a fruit from the basket/bowl on the chair and runs to/approaches his/her team mate standing in front of the poster and asks:
Does he/she/it (depending on the poster they refer to) like _________ (the fruit they take from the basket)? The student who is standing next to the poster looks at it, finds the fruit on it and interprets the facial expression.
If the answer is positive the student puts the fruit into the bowl under the poster. And the student who gives the answer runs back to his/her team and goes to the back of the line. Now the student who asked the question will be the one to answer the next question.
If the answer is negative the student who answers the question takes the fruit, runs to the chair where all the fruits are, puts it back into the basket and goes to the back of the line. Now the student who asked the question will be the one to answer the next question.
Students from each team take turns to ask and answer. The activity ends when all the fruit from the basket/bowl on the chair is used. The winner is the team with the biggest fruit salad.
*After the first round teams can then switch places to ask questions about different posters.