DICE

DICE
One activity I found extremely effective is using dice for drilling particular target language or useful phrases, it’s in In Company Intermediate course book for training the language of meetings (checking understanding).
I modify this game for any language I intend to drill and it’s great fun both for group and individuals. You actually make the students say the key phrases over and over again.
The principle is to identify 6 key phrases and allocate one number to each phrase. Then students throw the dice and have to say the phrase (which is gap-filled on board). Of course, you could use 2 dice and 12 phrases if there’s more language to drill.

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  1. Francesca Di MambroNovember 23, 2017 at 10:25 AM

    I love using dice too for drilling/topic choices/verb conjugation (i.e. 1=I, 2=you, etc.)/the number of points you win. You're right that students really enjoy repeating the phrases over and over. We are very cunning, us teachers!
    I've never tried it for the language of meetings. I mainly teach Business English now so I'll definitely give it a try!

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  2. Julia BlinovaDecember 3, 2017 at 1:29 AM

    Katarina Brezani, Francesca Di Mambro, thank you so much for these tips. Using a dice is such a simple thing, but I've never thought to use it for drilling.

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