Wake up!

Objectives

• The learner can understand the vocabulary of the body parts.
• The learner can understand the names of the colours.

Preparation

• The learners must be familiar with the vocabulary for the body and the colours.
• As step 3 of the exercise requires physical contact, introduce the exercise with an energizer.

Instructions

Step 1

• Form a circle.
• Tell the learners they have to activate the body part that will be named, in a way they are free to choose: by touching, shaking, moving… the body part.
• Give an example e. g. ‘I wake up my fingers’.
• Learners wake up their fingers by shaking or showing their fingers.
• Appoint a learner who calls out another part of the body.
• And so on, till each learner has chosen a body part.

Step 2

• Tell the learners a body part and a colour, e.g. ‘I wake up my nose & yellow’. They now have to move around and touch a yellow object with their nose.
• Appoint a learner who calls out another part of the body and a colour.
• And so on, till each learner has chosen a body part and a colour.

Step 3

• Tell the learners a body part, e.g. ‘I wake up my elbow’. They now have to form a pair and touch each other with the elbows.
• Appoint a learner who calls out another part of the body.
• And so on, till each learner has chosen a body part.

Variant

For more advanced groups, add more complicated names, e. g. I wake up my armpit, belly button, eyebrow…

Closing up

• Stand in the middle, appoint all the body parts that have been named and repeat the names.
• Let the learners repeat each word, if necessary correct the pronunciation.
• Write the name of the body parts and colours on the blackboard and let the learners copy.
• When doing step 3, choose body parts that are not intimate. If a learner does not feel comfortable, don’t force.