Larry Slater

Do you have several solid colored sock-balls? Have each team place the balls into different shapes that are drawn on the ground, say square, circle, etc. Place a solid colored sock-ball in each shape. Tell the students they must hop (or jump or crawl) to a shape and pick up the colored sock. The difficulty [...]

Give two teams one word that you want them to learn. Each player is to say the word and then throw the sock-ball to a person on the other team. That person must repeat the word and then toss the sock-ball back to another person on the first team. For people who cannot repeat the [...]

Do you want to add some physical fitness to English learning? Try this one on for size. Fill a couple of plastic sandwich bags full of sand. Stuff these into the toes of a long tube sock and then tie off its end. You now have a very soft dumb-bell. The soft dumb-bells can be [...]

Here’s another interesting way to emphasize the different parts of the human body. Divide the group up into teams. Give each team a sock-ball and line them up. Then call out a name of the body, such as “head”. The first person is to balance the sock-ball on their head. Now is where the fun [...]

Set up several items that you want the kids to learn the names of, say cup, pot, pan, trashcan, bowl, etc. Place a number of these items on the floor in front of them. Now break up the kids into teams and place them behind a line some distance from the items. Give the first [...]