Using TPR with children

Have your learner listen to your directions and "act out" what she hears. Rather than making it a simple chain of commands, use a story. The learner could act out a story where, for example, she is Winnie the Pooh eating out of the honey pot.

• Use the learner's own cultural folktales whenever possible.

In a classroom setting: BINGO

Play the game with words rather than numbers.

1. Prepare the grids with vocabulary you would like to review.
2. Make one copy of the grid that you can cut into smaller pieces. Fold these pieces and put them in a hat.
3. Have a learner pull a vocabulary word out of this hat and act it out.
4. Other learners find the word on their grid and cover it.
5. Continue to repeat #3 with a different learner acting out the word each time until someone shouts, "BINGO."

C: Information Gaps

What are they?

These are activities where the learner needs to exchange information with the tutor (or another learner in a group situation.) In this activity, learners ask questions to get unknown information.
Information gaps can take on a variety of different forms. In the next section, we will take a look at some of the less complicated versions.

Who is it intended for?

• It can be used with learners at all levels.

Before the session: Planning your lesson

• Set up a grid that has all the information on it. This will be the "master copy."
• Make two photocopies of the grid.
• Blank out about half of the information on the first grid. This will be copy "A."
• Blank out the other half of the information on the second grid. This will be copy "B."