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Numbers and Spelling Games

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Two fun games combining practice of how to pronounce numbers and letters of the alphabet, including a simplified hangman game and a numbers and letters code.

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Numbers and spelling games

 

Number hints spelling game

Choose one of the words below without looking at the list by asking for a number between one and 45. Your partner will pronounce that word. Ask “How many letters (are there)?” and your partner will tell you and draw one space for each letter (e.g. saying “There are five letters” and drawing “_ _ _ _ _”). Then ask how many of each letter there is in the word with questions like “How many Cs are there?” and “How many Ps?” until your partner has written the whole word. If you are scoring points, you get one point for each letter that you guess, e.g. one point if the answer is “(There is) one C” and two points if the answer is “(There are) two Ps”. However, you lose one point if the answer is “There are no …s”. When you’ve guessed the whole word, switch roles and do the same with your partner guessing.

Work together to pronounce all the words on the list below.

Play the same guessing letters game, but without any hint about what word you are guessing.

 

Spelling code game

Listen to your teacher dictate a number between one and 26 for each of the letters below, then check that you have a different number for each letter.

 

A=                      B=                      C=                      D=                      E=                       F=

G=                      H=                      I=                        J=                       K=                       L=

M=                     N=                      O=                      P=                      Q=                      R=

S=                      T=                       U=                      V=                      W=                     X=

Y=                      Z=

 

Listen to your partner pronounce a word, ask questions about the spelling if you like, then add up the numbers that each letter goes with and race to shout out the right total, e.g. “Twenty nine” if the word is “Cat” (because the total is 1 + 24 + 4).

Play the same game but calculating in your head without using a pen (or with just the person who won the last round not being allowed to use a pen if one person keeps winning).

Make up a code with different numbers, dictate it to the other groups, then pronounce words for them to play the same game with.

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Spelling code to dictate

A= 24                  B= 9                    C= 1                    D= 10                 E= 8                    F= 17

G= 3                   H= 26                 I= 14                   J= 15                  K= 7                    L= 22

M= 5                   N= 19                 O= 2                   P= 23                  Q= 16                 R= 18

S= 25                  T= 4                    U= 11                  V= 12                  W= 6                   X= 20

Y= 13                  Z= 21

Words to guess the spelling of by asking number questions

  1. cheese sandwiches
  2. chicken
  3. French fries
  4. salad
  5. apple pie
  6. orange juice
  7. running
  8. Thailand
  9. South Korea
  10. The United States
  11. chocolate
  12. potato
  13. bananas
  14. carrots
  15. cabbage
  16. photographs
  17. boots
  18. butter
  19. tomatoes
  20. swimming pool
  21. baseball
  22. circus
  23. tennis
  24. tomorrow
  25. weekend
  26. afternoon
  27. evening
  28. morning
  29. zoo
  30. picnic
  31. grandparents
  32. present
  33. pizza
  34. ice-cream
  35. cool
  36. sunny
  37. seventeenth
  38. thirty-first
  39. strawberry
  40. driving
  41. bookshop
  42. post office
  43. school

 

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