The Hot Potato

By Laura Estrada Carreño

I recommend this activity when you want to teach someone English because is very interesting.

The activity is used like a game and of course the student learns across the game.

To develop this activity:

You need a ball and two or more students

Song: “the hot potato gets out the pan who has the ball is going to lose...1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10”.  

The students pass the ball for each one or throw the ball around the classroom or form a circle at the same time they singing a song. At the end of the song the student who has the ball is the loser and she/he should to answer a question make by the teacher. This question could be adapted whatever topic that the teacher teaches in that moment. So the benefit in this case is to feedback any topic and recognizes that the students have learned.

And if you teaching at kinder garden or elementary school this activity is so good to teach numbers because the children love to sing and play simultaneously.