Techniques we used during the semester

• egghunting
• find them in the classroom / court
• say where they are
• what is inside
• count them

• speak in Russian
• to feel what children feel when they learn a new language and don't know the words yet
• using pictures to learn the names of the animals
• children have to point on the picture whose name they hear
• what's missing? - say the name of the animal whose picture is not there with the others

• pointing on things with a long, coloured plastic stick
• find things in the classroom and point on them
• colours, shapes, have a certain sound in the name of it etc.

• situation game with numbers
• play in pairs or groups of 3-4
• think of a situation and act it out saying only numbers (1, 2, 3, 4,...)
• others have to guess what the situation is

• decide!
• there are 2 sides, children say 2 things (only words, e. g. dogs or cats, cinema or theatre)
• they have to decide which side they prefer and without saying anything, they have to stand in one side
• they mustn't communicate or say which side they are on - if they know the others well, it is easier to guess what they choose
• when everybody decided to stand in one side they can discuss which side is which word

• the evolution game
• first everybody is an egg (knocking on their own head and say 'egg, egg, egg...')
•  2 eggs meet - rock, paper, scissors - the winner becomes a chicken (imitate the movements of a chicken and say 'chicken, chicken, chicken...')
• 2 chickens meet - rock, paper, scissors - the winner becomes an eagle (imitate the movements of an eagle and say 'eagle, eagle, eagle...')
• 2 eagles meet - rock, paper, scissors - the winner becomes superman (stop and just be superman)

• movements in the hulahoops
• pairs stand in a hulahoop and make up a movement, in every hulahoop there is a movement
• try to memorize them because in a few seconds they have to move to the next hulahoop and do the movement which was created in there

• names and poses
• they stand in a circle and speak one by one
• e. g. 'My name is Jade and my pose is THIS.' the next person says: 'Her name is Jade and her pose is THIS, and my name is Rose and my pose is THIS.' the next one says: 'Her name is Rose and her pose is THIS, and my name is...'

• cat and dog chasing game
• there is a cat, when the cat reaches a person, they have to say 'cat'
• the cat is moving person by person
• after a while a dog appears (saying 'dog, dog, dog...')
• the dog has to catch the cat

• the culture umbrella
• stand under the colourful umbrella and say something that comes to your mind in connection with culture
• only 1 person stands there