We often get students to
reorder words to make sentences. This makes them think carefully about syntax
(the correct sequence of sentence elements). For example, we can say:
Put the following words in order to make correct sentences:
a) Aya's / was/ wedding anniversary / yesterday
b) a/ at/ Buenos Aires/ teenagers/ in/ large/ Aya / secondary school/ teaches
c) bus/ by / go / I / school / to / usually
d)Mr. Sayed / us / tourism / write / about / essay / an /
asked / to
e) I / full mark / the / got
f) I/ night / the /
whole / ideas / for / searching / some / them / to / stayed / about / write
We can also ask the students to put in punctuation, such as CAPITAL LETTERS, FULL
STOPS (periods), QUESTION MARKS, INVERTED COMMAS (quotation marks), etc.
An enjoyable variation is to
have the students hold the words on cards above their heads (so they can't see
their own words). The other members of the class have to tell them where to
stand to make a correct sentence.
