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  Skills to practice: Any type of skill.
  Levels: All levels of kids (simplify for very low levels)
  Requirements: A ball, flash cards
   Class size: 10 - 20
  General rule- Ball stops with a student, s/he has to do something

        How to play:

 Bring picture cards or word cards to class which you want to practice. Refresh the students’ memory of the vocabulary on the cards
    Pre-teach the words: “Stop” or “freeze” and make them know if they hear that, it means they cannot move. They must be still.
  Next, tell students they are going to play a game.  Ask students to sit in a circle. Put the cards face down in the middle of the circle.
    Tell them they will pass the ball around the circle very quickly until you say “stop”. Warn that no student can hold the ball for more than two seconds. As the ball is being circled around, the teacher randomly shouts “Stop”.
   The student who is holding the ball when you shout “stop” cannot pass it to the next. S/he remains still with the ball. Ask the student to pick up a card from the pile of cards facing down. The student reads or tells the other students what is on the card. Depending on their English level, s/he makes a sentence or more with the word on the card.
   Ask questions to prompt weaker students. If the student cannot make a sentence(s), s/he should hand the card to another student to help, or simply ask any student to help. Then the game continues until the cards are finished.
  Variations:
   You can make it more competitive by giving points to any student who makes a sentence with the card or word which is picked up.

N: B- This is a flexible game, so it can always be adapted depending on the levels of the students.

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