I did these with plastic animals, but you could do similar things with plastic cutlery, body parts, classroom objects, etc etc.
How many doing what where?
With the rest of the class’s eyes closed, one student or the teacher hits something in the classroom with one or both of the things they have been given. The people listening compete to make correct sentences like “It is on the door” or “They are on the carpet”. With plastic animals you can also do the same thing with Present Continuous sentences like “It is jumping on the table” and “They are walking on the window”. The same thing can also be done with two students, with one or both of them kicking the door, knocking on the whiteboard etc, and a third person testing their classmates with the question “Who’s doing what?”
Where did it/ they go?
Students also close their eyes in this game, but this time while they are doing so someone places one or two objects somewhere in the classroom. They open their eyes when they are told to and compete to make sentences like “It is under the table” and “They are in the teacher’s jacket pocket” by spotting how many objects and where they are. The same thing can be done with both a single object and two other objects being placed in different parts of the classroom while they have their eyes closed, perhaps with them needing to listen to the question “Where is it?” or “Where are they?” to be able to make the right sentence. The same thing can be done with things being stuck to or drawn in a big picture (good if students can’t be trusted to close their eyes).
Many other games, including two new photocopiables, here:
And another – put two objects the same and one different one in a bag and ask students “What is it?” or “What are they?”, and they have to identify both which is the odd one out and what they are feeling in the bag.