TITLE: Guess and Spell Relay

OBJECTIVE: To enhance students' language skills through interactive and engaging activities that involve vocabulary guessing, spelling, and effective communication, fostering language proficiency and teamwork.

AGE: 10 + years old

TIME: 10 - 20 minutes

MATERIALS: Whiteboard, markers, list of words and their hints.

LIST OF HINTS AND WORDS:

Weather: Hints:

1. 1. Water falling from the sky when it's cloudy.
2. 2. Moving air that you can feel on your skin.
3. 3. Loud noise and lightning during a heavy rain.
4. 4. When the air is filled with thick mist and it's hard to see far.
5. 5. Cold white flakes that fall from the sky in winter.

6. Words:

   1. 1. Rain
   2. 2. Wind
   3. 3. Thunderstorm
   4. 4. Foggy
   5. 5. Snow

   6. Clothing: Hints:

      1. 1. A piece of clothing that keeps you warm, worn on top of your shirt.
      2. 2. Something you wear on your head to protect yourself from the sun or cold.
      3. 3. Footwear that covers your whole foot and part of your leg, often worn in rainy or snowy weather.
      4. 4. Items you put on your hands to keep them warm in cold weather.
      5. 5. Eyewear that shields your eyes from the sun's bright light.

      Words:

      1. 1. Jacket
      2. 2. Hat
      3. 3. Boots
      4. 4. Gloves
      5. 5. Sunglasses

      Hobbies: Hints:

      1. 1. Moving your body to music for fun and expression.
      2. 2. Preparing and making food in the kitchen.
      3. 3. Taking care of plants and flowers in your yard or garden.
      4. 4. Taking pictures with a camera to capture moments and scenes.
      5. 5. Creating music using tools like a guitar, piano, or drums.

      Words:

      1. 1. Dancing
      2. 2. Cooking
      3. 3. Gardening
      4. 4. Photography
      5. 5. Playing Instruments

PROCEDURE: 

1. 1. Divide the class into pairs and assign a starting line and a marker for each pair.

2. 2. Provide all of them with a list of hints that they will use for the activity.

3. 3. Explain the rules of the activity to the students:

   • -One student in each pair will start as the guesser and speller at the same time.
   • -These students stand behind the starting line, facing away from the whiteboard.
   • -Their pairs stand at the whiteboard, ready to write.
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4. 4. Begin the relay:

   • -For round 1, give the guessers/speller a specific clue or hint about a topic that they have already seen. They must guess the word based on the hint.
   • -Once the guesser/speller thinks they know the word, they run in order to communicate the word to their pair just spelling it.
   • -Their partner start to write in the whiteboard. The pair who writes first the word wins.

5. 5. After the first round, switch roles within the pairs.

6. 6. Continue with multiple rounds, each time providing a new hint. The pairs switch roles after each round.

7. 7. The pair that successfully guesses and spells the most words correctly wins the relay.

OBSERVATION: 

This acitivty can be addapted to the students' needs. For a blind person, he could just be standing up facing the whiteboard ready to write or also, being the guesser/speller with the help of the teacher.

In the case of a deaf person, the teacher can bring a piece of paper with the alphabet and the pair could just point the letters.