Chain games

Chain games are good for consolidating sintax patterns, lexical sets and vocabulary. It is easy to adapt the games to the grammar structure and the vocabulary taught in the lesson.
Basic procedure.
. Show the students how to play the game using, for example, animal lexis. Choose two confident students to help you.
. Say "I have a dog". Ask student A to repeat what you said and to say another animal, e.g. "I have a dog and a cat".
. Ask student B to repeat what student A said and to add another animal, "I have a dog, a cat and a mouse:"
. Check that students have understood what they have to do, then play the game with the whole class.See how many words the students can remember. When the chain breaks down, because somebody cannot remember the sentence, the whole class count to five and the chain starts again.