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3. Engage Activities: Individual Response

Focus on the children responding as individuals to teacher-led activities.

This stage also includes the other games when they encourage children to respond as individuals, e.g.
‘What’s missing?’ and ‘The pair game’.

CIRCLE TIME ENGAGE 4: GAME – The mime game

MATERIALS: Flashcards
STEPS:
 Announce the game, e.g. Let’s play the mime game!
 Model the game: do a mime and then ask the topic question, e.g. [Mime it’s rainy], What’s
the weather like? Or [mime a colour] What colour is it? Or [mime a daddy] Who is it? Or
[mime a teddy] What is it?
 Ask children to put their hands up to show they know the answer and select a child. If
they guess correctly, say Yes it is! and ask them to come forward as a volunteer.
 Show them a flashcard and ask them to mime it for the class to guess. Help them ask
the topic question.
 Repeat until all or a number of children have volunteered.

Extension
 Instead of showing a flashcard, whisper a topic word / phrase into the child’s ear. This
will be quite challenging as the child will have to understand what they heard to be able
to mime correctly.
 If the topic is related to the parts of the body, have children come up in pairs and join
themselves at the part of the body they want their peers to say, e.g. arm along arm,
tummy along tummy. Careful with mouth and eyes. Mouth, get children to blow kisses /
air kiss towards each other; Eyes, get children to stare at each other.

Progression notes: Observe which children are able to remember the mime and which are
able to answer correctly in English. If you whisper the target language, is the child able to
understand?

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