The mobile phone activity

This is an activity related to the treasure hunt we did the day before. I used the text from one of the activities (the one you can find here http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-my-dad.htm) to create a dynamic and communicative activity. I made a mobile phone –it was a mobile phone because the text was presented as if it was a mobile’s message- with a box and a coloured card, and I put inside all the sentences from the text. I divided them in three groups –three/four people in each- and I told them each group had to manage to build up the complete text. So I held the mobile phone with my hands, and, group by group, they had to pick up one sentence. Only when they had discovered the meaning of the sentence –by asking me or my coach- they could pick up the next one, and then the next… and so on. Thus it was like a competition between the different groups to get all the sentences (the had the complete text projected). But there was a problem! If they picked up a paper with a strange and red coloured message like:

OH! I’M SORRY, YOUR MUM IS CALLING! Then they had to give all the sentences back and start again.

I think they really enjoyed the activity and, of course, I also enjoyed it a lot when I realized they were having a great time with my activity!