Tables of Contents for Five-Minute Activities

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Tables of Contents for Five-Minute Activities

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Thanks

ix

Introduction

x

The activities

Abstract picture

1

1

Adjectives and nouns

1

1

Amazing facts

2

1

Ambiguous picture

3

1

Associations

3

1

Blackboard bingo

4

1

Brainstorm round a word

4

2

Categories

6

1

Chain story

7

1

Changing sentences

8

1

Compare yourselves

9

1

Comparing things

9

1

Controversial statements

10

1

Correcting mistakes

10

2

Crosswords

12

1

Cutting down texts

13

1

Damaged property

14

1

Delphic dictionary

15

1

Detectives

16

1

Diaries

17

1

Dictate numbers

17

1

Discussing lessons

17

2

Don't say yes or no

19

1

Draw a word

19

1

English words in our language

20

1

Erasing words

20

1

Evidence

20

2

Expanding headlines

22

1

Expanding texts

22

1

Express your view

23

1

Fact and fiction

24

1

Family tree

24

1

Favourites

25

1

Favourite words

25

1

Feel the object

26

1

Finding the page

27

1

Fing someone who

27

1

First, second, third

28

1

Five-minute writing storms

28

1

Flashing

29

1

General knowledge

30

3

Getting to know someone

33

1

Guessing

34

1

Hearing mistakes

34

1

How do you feel?

34

1

How many things can you think of that...?

35

1

If I has a million dollars

36

1

If I weren't here

36

1

Imaginary classroom

36

1

Imaginative descriptions

36

1

Imaginative identifications

37

1

Important people

38

1

I'm pulling your leg

38

1

Interrupting the story

39

1

Interview an interesting personality

39

1

Invention technique: modifying

40

1

Invention technique: reversing

40

1

Invisible elephant

41

1

It was the way she said it

42

1

I would like to be a giraffe

42

1

Jazz chants

43

1

Jumbled sentences

44

1

Jumbled words

44

1

Kim's game

45

1

Likes and dislikes

45

1

Listening to sounds

46

1

Magical entertainment

46

1

Making groups

47

1

Martian

48

1

Match the adjectives

49

1

Match the people

50

1

Memorising words

50

1

Metaphors

51

1

Miming

51

1

Miming adverbs

52

1

Mistakes in reading

53

1

Music

53

1

My neighbour's cat

54

2

Neighbours and neighbourhoods

56

1

New comparisons

57

1

New words

58

1

Numbers in my life

58

1

Odd one out

58

1

Opposites

59

2

Oral cloze

61

1

Picture dictation

61

1

Piling up a sentence

62

1

Prefices and suffixes

62

1

Proverbs

63

2

Questions about a statement

65

1

Reasons for wanting an object

66

1

Recalling words

66

1

Relaxation technique

67

1

Rub out and replace

67

1

Same word, different meanings

68

2

Say things about a picture

70

2

Search through the book

72

1

Seeing pictures in your mind

72

1

Selling freezers to eskimos

73

1

Sentence starters

74

1

Serial story

75

1

Silent speech

76

1

Simon says

76

1

Slow reveal

76

1

Something interesting about myself

77

1

Songs

77

2

Spelling bee

79

1

Stories

80

1

The disappearing text

81

1

The most

82

1

The other you

82

1

Three-picture story

83

1

Tongue twisters

84

1

Unusual view

85

1

Use the dictionary

86

1

Vocabulary steps

86

2

Walking warmers

88

2

We both...

90

1

What are they talking about?

90

1

What did they say?

91

1

What has just happened?

91

1

What might you do with it?

92

1

What's the explanation?

92

2

What's the story behind it?

94

1

Where did it come from?

94

1

Who, where and what?

95

1

Why have you got a monkey in your bag?

95

1

Why might you...?

96

1

Word cards

96

2

Words beginning with...

98

1

Words out of...

98

1

Would you make a good witness?

99

1

Wrangling

99

1

You write next!

100

2

Bibliography

102

1

Index

103