Meiwa Lesson 7: Vegetables

Grammar

"What vegetable do you have? Do you have a pumpkin? Yes / no"

Game

Go Fish

Structure

For this lesson, you need to make a set of playing cards, as well as vegetable flashcards. Get some light cardboard and print a set of the flashcards at playing card size, then cut them out to make the cards. Make sure you can't see the vegetables through the cards (if you can, either use thicker cardboard or a lighter print/copy). You will need 4 of each vegetable to make a deck, and you will need 6 decks for a large class, approximately 4 to 6 players per deck.

1. The game is played by dealing out all the cards evenly. Any pairs a student has can be put together and placed on their desk in front of them.
2. The aim of the game is to collect more pairs than anyone else. What is left in their hand is all the un-paired cards. Get the students to janken for who goes first.
3. Then each student in turn can ask any other student in their game, "Do you have a <vegetable>?", to which the other student can answer "yes" or "no". If they answer yes, they must give that student the card, thus giving that student another pair.

This game works really well as Elementary students love card games and it allows every student to practice the target grammar while having fun.

See Also

• Sample Lessons from Meiwa
• Elementary School Lessons