Is there & Are there- Spelling Games

Is there/ Are there spelling games

Listen to your partner say a word and guess how many letters are in it with “Are there… letters?” When someone guesses the right number of letters, your partner will write that many gaps on their paper or the board (e.g. “_ _ _ _” for a four-letter word). Then take turns guessing what letters are in the word with questions like “Are there any Ps?” If the answer is “Yes, there are”, ask about how many with questions like “Is there an M?” and “Are there two Os?” If your partner says “Yes, there is/ are”, then they will write those letters in the correct place. If you are scoring, you get one point for each “Yes” answer. Your teacher will tell you if you also lose a point if you get a “No” answer.

Suggested is there/ are there questions about spelling Are there two letters/ three letters/ four letters/… letters? Are there any As/ any Bs/ any …s? Is there one C/ one D/ one …? Is there a B/ a C/ a D/ a …? Is there an E/ an F/ an H/ an …? Are there two Es/ two Fs/ two Gs/ two …s? Are there three Hs/ three Is/ three Js/ three …s? Are there … …s? Suggested answers Yes, there are. – No, there aren’t. Yes, there is. – No, there isn’t.

 

Suggested words to make your partner(s) guess the spelling of

1. afternoon
2. August
3. bananas
4. baseball
5. basketball
6. bicycle
7. bottles
8. breakfast
9. bus stop
10. cafeteria
11. classroom
12. coffee
13. comics
14. computer games
15. cooking
16. cupboard
17. dancing
18. December
19. eggs
20. evening
21. February
22. fishing
23. fruit juice
24. good
25. homework
26. ill
27. January
28. Japanese
29. library
30. living room
31. morning
32. notebooks
33. November
34. October
35. onion
36. orange
37. pencil cases
38. pizza
39. post office
40. sandals
41. September
42. shoes
43. small
44. snakes
45. soccer
46. soup
47. strawberries
48. summer
49. sunglasses
50. sunny
51. sweater
52. swimming pool
53. teeth
54. telephone
55. television
56. umbrellas

Ask about anything above you don’t understand, working together to make suitable questions each time.

 

Is there/ Are there grammar presentation

Without looking above, put one word into each gap below.

Are there three letters? Yes, there _______.

_____ _____ any Qs? No, _____ ________.

______ there an E? Yes, __________ is.

Is there ____ P? No, there ___________. 

 

Further practice

Do the same, but without saying what the word is before people guess the letters.