I’d like a kite, please
James Heal, Spain
This is a great way to practise I want or I would like (I’d like) and to revise toys, but it could also be food items. I chose I’d like because it’s more polite.
It was a lesson with Young Learners and Very Young Learners.
I had a teddy bear sitting on the table (you could use a doll, an action man, a class mascot) and I asked a student to hide behind the bear (they were actually sitting under the teacher’s table but it could have been behind the door.
A student came up to the bear and said: ‘I’d like a kite, please’.
The student who was hiding had access to paper and colours (crayons or markers) and they would (ideally) draw the item. They would then pass it discreetly to the bear and adopting the voice and tone of a bear would say: ‘A kite, OK, here you are!’.
All, or most of, the students were given an opportunity to ask the bear for an item and also to draw the items. You could have several bears to involve all the students at the same time. A great activity which encouraged creativity, developed speaking and listening skills and revised lexis and grammar.
