Communicative English Dumb charades 1

Objectives:-

 * To introduce the students	to the game ‘Dumb	charades’.
 * To build in students, an ability to communicate.
 * To help students recall their vocabulary.
 * To enrich students’ vocabulary.
 * To alleviate inhibitions in students, and	make them comfortable to converse.

Estimated Time:-
Approximately 45 minutes for a class consisting of 8 groups with 5-6 students in each group. (Time may vary depending upon the class strength)

Materials/ Resources needed:-
Colourful pictures, Book, Pen/Pencil, Projector and screen, Computer.

Prerequisites/Instructions, if any :-

 * Introduce students to the Dumb charades game.
 * Explain rules of the activity to the students.
 * Encourage students to work as a team.

Multimedia resources
Mind Map- used for mapping of all the words generated by students during Dumb charades.

Website inter-actives/ links/ simulations
The images for Dumb charades activity are downloaded from the website - Pratham books story weaver.

Images used for the activity. Pratham story weaver can be explored for more such pictures.

Process (How to do the activity)

 * 1) Form groups of up to 5-6 children per group.
 * 2) Ask children to discuss within their group and select a representative for enacting the given picture; but other team members can support as needed
 * 3) While one group enacts their interpretation of the given picture through action and gestures the other groups will try and  guess what the picture is all about.
 * 4) Simultaneously the teacher has to make a list of all the words generated from the groups when they are making the guesses using mind map and project it on the screen.
 * 5) Once the audience group have successfully guessed what is being enacted, call upon another group to enact the given picture.
 * 6) Similarly, conduct this activity for all the groups.

Developmental Questions (What discussion questions)
As per the objectives that has been already mentioned for this activity, developmental questions aimed at creating pegs for conversation. As and when the activity was taking place questions were asked related to the given context in order to initiate conversation with the students. Also, whenever the students had any doubts or questions they were answered or given clarity.

Evaluation (Questions for assessment of the child)
The participation level of each student in the activity was taken in to account for evaluation.