the adverb game

This grammar game never gets old. I've played this in ESL classrooms, elementary school classrooms, and college classrooms, and it's always a total hoot.

This game focuses on adverbs that describe the manner in which something is done. It does not work for adverbs that tell time or location.

Here are the steps:

1. One student volunteers to leave the room.

2. The student chooses a manner adverb. For example: quickly.

3. The student returns to the classroom and the other students give this student orders such as, "Walk around the room." or "Stand up." or "Shut the door."

4. The person who has chosen the adverb has to follow his classmate's orders in the manner of his chosen adverb. (He must walk around the room quickly.)

5. After the student has been given at least three orders, his classmates can guess his adverb.

While playing this game, I have been ordered to pick my nose while my adverb was loudly. That was interesting...

Possible adverbs to use:

quickly, slowly, angrily, happily, quietly, loudly, strongly, sheepishly, calmly, lazily, sleepily, fearfully, silently, painfully, seriously, dramatically, gracefully, stiffly, jerkily, etc.
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