Partner Hunt!

Hello!

This is a great icebreaker for introducing many grammar topics like masculine-feminine, singular-plural, synonyms-antonyms and so on. 

It's called Partner Hunt! It's fun and a lot of learning happens at the same time. I used this game for introducing Nouns - gender. 

The instructions are simple - look for your partner, find a spot and sit with your partner. 

If you want this activity to be less noisy then you could challenge your kids to look for their partners by walking towards each other and whispering the nouns mentioned in their slips of paper.

We were 5 teachers so it was easier to organise and conduct the game. If you are the only teacher in class then you may have to prepare a little in advance. Although, I feel, if teachers become a part of this activity then, a lot of variation is possible and you also get a lot of help from them.

Planning:

• Have slips of papers with feminine and masculine nouns like: uncle - aunt, lion - lioness, father - mother, etc, each written on an individual slip of paper.
• Make sure each set is complete otherwise a child may end up with no partner at the end of the game.  
• Fold them and keep them ready. 
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      How to play:

• Have the nouns in a bowl
• Pass the bowl around and ask the students to pick up only one slip of paper each
• Once everybody has a slip ask them to walk around the class and look for their partners
• As soon as they find their partners they must find a place and sit together 

Once everybody has a partner ask them to call out the nouns from their slips. As they call out make a list on the board having the set of nouns (masculine-feminine) written together. You could also have them write down a few of the nouns in their notebooks towards the end of the class. 

I personally like this activity as kids have a lot of fun while hunting for their partners and it requires very simple preparation.

Enjoy!

P.S. If you are playing the game say with Std. 03 kids then have nouns which they are familiar with from previous classes. This will keep them engaged and they will enjoy the activity even more. Later, you could build up from there and introduce newer nouns as per the class level.