Word sneak with Steve Carell - a nice costumizable vocab activity to start your lesson with

This is one of my favourite vocabulary revision activities of all time... just give it a try, and your students will enjoy it!

Time: 10 mins

Level: B1+

Materials: 5 post-its per student, this video

Procedure:

1. Pair your students, give 5 post-its to each student and ask them to write one word on each card from the last lesson. When finished, ask them to switch card sets so that everyone has a new set. (Or: give 5 ready-made cards to each student with the vocab you want to revise) Tell them that they must not look at the cards at this point.

2. Play the video from 0:00 to 1:38. The host explains the rules of the game and they play one round. (If necessary, pre-teach moose and zucchini)

3. Tell the students that they'll have to play the same activity: they'll have to converse about a random topic (or you can set a topic), and they'll have to sneak the words in their cards into the conversation. The aim is to sound as natural as possible.

4. Monitor the conversations.

Comments:

1. If you don't want to recycle vocabulary, you can just come up with silly words or ask your students to come up with them.

2. You can work on a word sneak video starring a celebrity your students like more...

Here's a list of possibilities:

- Chris Pratt

- Melissa McCarthy

Just type "word sneak" into your youtube search bar and you'll find at least 10 videos.