Collection of games

How?

Level: intermediate

Age: children

Group size: whole class

Use: to practise adverbial of manner

One learner goes out of the room and thinks of a simple action – such as cleaning the blackboard, drawing or writing something, counting objects or people, telling about what happened the day before, etc. Meanwhile the class has chosen an adverb of manner e.g. quickly, slowly, softly, loudly, etc. Back comes the one outside and performs the action in various ways until he hits on the manner chosen by the class and guesses the adverb. But he may have to change the action to discover what the adverb is – one can hardly clean a blackboard loudly!

The class should respond to each ‘performance’ by using the adverb that seems appropriate to it, e.g. No, it isn’t ‘quickly’. If the ‘performer’ does not agree with their choice of adverb to describe the way he performs an action, he can say so, e.g. I wasn’t writing carelessly.

It should not take long for any ‘performer’, by means of his actions to discover what adverb the class has chosen.