Materials for the class

Phase 1. A music player and music.

Phase 4. A pillow or beanbag

Layout of the classroom

Phase 1,2,4 and 5. The empty classroom to move freely.

Phase 3. Normal classroom setting.

Phase 1

The teacher starts music and all students walk in the classroom freely. Whenever the music stops each student will greet each other by touching a different body parts. It can be finger with finger or knee against knee or foot against foot. Then they will say hello. The activity continues until the students use most of the body parts.

Phase 2

The teacher brings the students in the pairs. In each pairs, members observe one another. The teacher says, “Notice everything you can about your partner. Look at her clothes, her hair, her eyes, really observe the other person.” Next, the teacher asks all students to turn away from each other, back to back. Then the teacher tellsthe students that each member in the pair must change three things about him/herself. Players can remove jewellery on their body parts, change their hair, take off shoes, etc. Then the students turn back towards each other and take turns noticing what has changed.

Phase 3
The teacher asks the students the name of the body parts they greet in the first activity and the body parts that they discovered the changes. The teacher writes all the names on the white board.

Phase 4

The teacher asks the students to stand in a circle. He or she chooses one student to stand in the middle of the circle. This student closes his/her eyes and turns around slowly, counting to ten. Meanwhile, the circle is passing the hot potato (a pillow/beanbag) around as fast as possible so as not to burn their hands.When the centre student reaches ten, he or she calls out “stop,” opens his or her eyes and points at the student with the hot potato. The teacherthen asks words, such as ‘3 body parts on the head’.

The hot potato begins to pass around the circle again while the chosen student has to say three body parts on the head before the potato comes back to him or her.

If the student succeeds, there’s no change and the activity begins again. If the student does not succeed, then they become the student in the middle who turns and counts. The teacher repeats the sequence.

Tips to the teacher: The teacher can adjust the number of words to be said, or the number of times the hot potato is passed, according to the number of students in the class and their level to give a fair amount of time for producing the words.

Phase 5

The teacher asks the students to come in front of the class one by one. One volunteer student stands infront of the class and says I am the nose. Other student comes and says I am right eye. The students connect each other one by one. At the end the teacher creates a big body with the whole class.