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Is there & Are there- Spelling Games

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students practise spelling and there is/ there are yes/ no questions at the same time, first as a pairwork spelling test and then as a guessing game like hangman, including there is/ are questions and answers grammar presentation.

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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.

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