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    Crazy Sentences

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    Activity containg adjectives

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    The passage describes a classroom activity where students construct sentences using adjective and noun cards to practice vocabulary.

    The activity involves students being divided into teams and constructing the longest sentence they can within a time limit using an adjective and noun card they are given.

    The materials used include sets of cards with adjectives and nouns written on them for students to combine into sentences.

    TEACHER’S NOTES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Crazy Sentences

    Activity Type Introduction


    Writing activity, group Here is an entertaining teaching activity to help students practice
    work constructing sentences with certain adjectives and nouns.

    Procedure
    Language Focus
    Divide the class into four teams.
    Adjectives

    Nouns Give each team a set of adjective cards and a set of noun cards.

    Sentence construction Ask the students to shuffle the two sets and place them face down
    on the desk in separate piles

    Aim Tell the students that they are going to play a game where they
    have three minutes to write the longest sentence they can,
    To construct sentences
    containing a particular adjective and noun.
    with certain adjectives
    and nouns.
    Explain that the sentence doesn't need to be true (the crazier the
    better) and can be affirmative or negative and in any tense.
    Preparation
    Each team then turns over one adjective and one noun card.
    Make one copy of the
    adjective and noun cards The teams race to construct the longest sentence possible with
    and cut as indicated. the adjective and noun and write it on the board.
    Keep each set separate.
    When the three minutes are up, check each team’s sentence.

    Level Award one point if a sentence is grammatically correct, one point


    for inventiveness and one point for every word in the sentence.
    Pre-intermediate
    If a team writes a grammatically incorrect sentence, they score
    Time no points, but other teams can steal a point by successfully
    correcting the sentence.
    55 minutes
    Teams then discard the adjective and noun, turn over two new
    cards and the game is repeated.

    This continues until all the cards have been used.

    The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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    ADJECTIVES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Crazy Sentences

    Adjective cards

    clumsy healthy brave hard-working

    polite amusing unfriendly dishonest

    fluffy safe fast strange

    modern wide small ancient

    easy-going honest kind confident

    nervous unhappy expensive loud

    traditional noisy uncomfortable interesting

    polluted new fun nice

    shy outgoing happy mean

    cruel beautiful popular quiet

    boring creepy useful clean

    impatient lively dangerous dull

    lazy rude friendly patient

    cheap generous ugly funny

    easy slow unhealthy cool

    comfortable quiet colourful useless

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    ADJECTIVES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Crazy Sentences

    Noun cards

    yogurt battle onion boots

    butter unicorn potato bathroom

    toaster grandma troll sausage

    throne wig nostril walnut

    sheep towel bomb toilet

    pillow lips cloud pancake

    lettuce raft eggs idiot

    monkey baby dragon telephone

    criminal tomato pig coffee

    furnace shotgun kite jellybean

    cat box tank legs

    ice cream oxygen lantern bread

    cave socks suitcase eye

    nunchucks kangaroo pizza toenails

    ninja spinach smoker fire

    zombie turkey raspberry alien

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