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Rhythmic Reading TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, TESL, EFL, ESL Game: This activity is fast-paced and lively,
and improves their word recognition, speed, and confidence in reading.
Choose a reading passage (one page if using a basic text, maybe one paragraph
if using a more advanced one). Start a rhythm (clapping or tapping on
your desk). Choose one student to start. Each student must read one sentence
(or word, if you want), exactly on the beat and pronounced correctly.
Immediately after the first student finishes, the next one starts with
the next sentence, and so on. If someone misses a beat or stumbles over
words, they lose a ‘life’ or they are ‘out’. If you use the ‘out’ method,
it isn’t so bad, because the ‘out’ students help to keep the beat and
follow along. In my experience, all students, whether ‘out’ or not, have
focused intently on the reading-waiting like hawks to hear someone’s mistake.
Of course you can vary the tempo, making it much easier or much hander.
This can also be played as a team game (which team can make it to the
end of the passage, on beat, with no stumbles or mispronunciations?).
Good luck! (Submitted by Melanie Mitchell).
S = Student | Ss = Students | T = Teacher
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