Lesson Share: Drama: The adverb game

Procedure

• Prepare a series of cards with adverbs on them. 
• These should be fairly easy to mime or demonstrate and can be varied in complexity according to the level of the class (e.g. from ‘slowly’ to ‘absent-mindedly’). 
• Divide the class into groups of five-eight students and ask them to sit in circles. 
• Give an adverb card to one member of each group and tell them not to show it to the other students. 
• They then have to demonstrate the meaning of their word to the rest of the group.
• The group can ask questions. They might say, for example: 'Can you walk like this?' or 'Can you read a book like this?' and the student with the card should mime accordingly. 
• The activity continues until each student has had a turn.

Tip: Review all the vocabulary after the activity and check that everyone has understood.