Kat Woman's Lesson Idea!!!

Tic Tac Toe Review

Make a 5x5 or 7x7 grid on the board.

Write the pronouns at the top of each column (i.e. I, you, they, we, he/she/it) or you can use professions which has been my target vocabulary for the week (i.e. a flight attendant, a nurse, a vet, an architect, a builder...)

Next to each row, you can write different verbs (i.e. see, have, eat, go, do) and for the advanced classes, I put a question mark.

Divide the class into two teams: Team X and Team O. (Interestingly enough, no one wanted to be Team O...I think they equated it with "loser").

Then, give each kid a chance to make a sentence using the grid. The sentence must be grammatically correct (The flight attendant sees airplanes). When a student matches a pronoun or profession with the question mark, they have to make a correct question (Do you eat cake?) Then that team gets either an X or an O in their box. If they get three in a row (up down, diagonal, or across) their team gets a point. The advanced classes were not allowed to help each other, but the lower level classes had a lot of trouble with it, so I let them help each other. They should eventually see how their team not only has to give grammatically correct sentences, but use strategy on where to put their X's and O's.

This game is great because you can use it multiple times for review and every single kid was involved. I got it from Dave's ESL Cafe at www.daveseslcafe.com.