1. Transformation drill

Grammar: Practice at forming simple present negative statements
Procedure: The teacher provides a sentence in the affirmative; students change it to the negative.
Example:
Teacher: Mary knows Jim.
Students (choral response): Mary doesn’t know Jim.
Teacher: John likes that book.
Students (choral response): John doesn’t like that book.

2. Adverbs (of frequency) drill

Grammar: Practice using adverbs of frequency with present simple statements.
Procedure: The teacher calls on students individually and provides an activity. Students reply creating sentences with always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, rarely, or never to describe the frequency of their usual habits (after five o’clock every day).
Example:
Teacher: Nam, eat dinner.
Nam: I always eat dinner (after five o’clock everyday).
Teacher: Phuong, watch TV.
Phuong: I usually watch TV (after five o’clock everyday).

3. Chain game
Grammar: Practice using the articles a and an.
Procedure: The teacher asks student to sit in a circle or in a row. She writes a sentence on the BB and asks them to take it in turns to lengthen it.
Example:
S1: Yesterday I bought a pen
S2: Yesterday I bought a pen and a notebook
S3: Yesterday I bought a pen, a notebook and a rubber
 S4: ……………………………….
The sentence can go on until students can not think of a word to say.
You can also use this game to practise different target language such as past simple tense, plurals etc, too.

4. Guessing game: "Where Am I?"
Grammar: Using present progressive to describe present time actions.
Procedure: One student comes to the front of the room and describes a place they would like to be. (You can give them a few minutes to prepare beforehand, but they shouldn’t write out their descriptions.) Each student describes the activities happening in their place to the group. The group guesses where the place is.
Example: You can model this activity with the following description: "There are many people here. Some people are swimming. One little girl is building a sand castle. Where am I?" (Answer: You’re at the beach.)
Tip: Make sure you model the exercise with your students first, so they know what to do.

5. Circle comparison
Grammar: Using comparative adjectives.
Procedure: Write several nouns on the blackboard in a circle. Try to get the students to give you these i.e. “Can you give me the names of some animals?” Ask the students to suggest a point of comparison between any two.
                                                           lion           dog
                                                 crocodile                fly
                                                    mouse                 caterpillar
                                                                    cat

A fly is faster than a caterpillar.
A dog is cleverer than a cat.
A lion is stronger than a dog.

Here is another circle for comparison

                                                 Hanoi            Hue
                                               HCMC                Da Nang
                                         Dong Ha                     Viet Tri
                                   Nha Trang                            Can Tho

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