Tag Archives: relaydictation

Halloween dress up game

Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language Focus: Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes/ parts of the body Game: Halloween dressing up game Preparation 1.  Go to the site yourself and create a character.  Take a screenshot of your character and print off a copy. 2.  Write the character description out .  e.g. He is a [...]

Victor’s nightmare

A relay dictation or graded reading for primary learners. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Topic: Nightmares Language focus: Directions, prepositions & game vocabulary Game: Victor’s nightmare Victor suffers from nightmares and in order to get some restful night’s sleep he needs to learn how to face his fears and vanquish them. Preparation Download and a [...]

Hero Machine – Relay Play for Primaries

Learners reproduce the physical appearance of a superhero from reading and relaying a written description. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language focus:  Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes vocabulary/ physical descriptions/ parts of the body Game: Hero machine Preparation Either play with heromachine  yourself and both write a physical description of the hero you produce [...]

Christmas ecard picture dictation

Level: Primary Topic: Picture dictation Listening focus: Describing a Christmas Ecard (prepositions of place) Time: 30 minutes Preparation: A copy of  the Ecard Wordsearch for each learner.  A single copy of the Ecard Picture Dictation or a screenshot of a finished ecard. Game: xmas ecard maker Screenshot of the finished picture dictation Key Language: Snowman, [...]