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Texas ISD School Guide
Texas ISD School Guide







Lessons & Classroom Games for Teachers

ESL Game - Mixed Up Sentences
By:Joe Tosczak

This is another one of those "very easy to learn" ESL Games.

This game is similiar to the "Mixed Up Words" ESL Game...but this game is more geared towards more advanced students. When I first started teaching English in Asia... I often found myself in the classroom with 10 - 20 students sitting in their seats; and waiting for me to teach them something fun.

In the beginning...I failed horribly!

But I didn't give up and when you are standing in front of the class and you have nothing else to teach them... you will quickly make a mental note to: Find some ESL Games that you can play incase you have extra time near the end of class.

This is one of those games:

First you need to think of a sentence. This sentence should be some what related to something that you have been studying and / or reviewing during class time.

So let's say that the sentence that you came up with is:

The boy walked to school.

You / the teacher would then scramble up each word AND mix up the order of the words.

EX.

dkwlae ot oyb eht olohcs

Let the students work do the first few Mixed Up Sentences on the board. Once they get the idea of how the game works...Write more mixed up sentences on the board.

You can let the students work together or do this exercise by themselves. (It is the ESL teacher's call.) This is a great warm up game that the students love and always enjoy to play!

Hey! Do you want to watch a video of this ESL game as well as 50 more ESL games on video? Then click here. ESL CLASSROOM GAMES!





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