Games For Single Student Lessons - Sentence Tag

In this game, the last word of a sentence is used to form the beginning of the next sentence. Each person takes turns making a sentence. For example:

Teacher: I saw a cat.
Student: The cat had a ball.
Teacher: The ball was blue.
Student: Blue is my favorite color.
Teacher: Color photographs are very nice.
Student: Nice people work in my office.

This game is easy to play and very flexible. The teacher can set the difficulty level by making simpler or more complex sentences for the student to work from.

Explaining the game to the student:

Write a simple sentence on the white board or a piece of scratch paper. Underline the last word.

Example: I have a pet dog.

Tell the student that you will make a sentence like the one on the board and that he must make a sentence using the last word of your sentence at the beginning of his sentence. Write the linking sentence and underline the first word to demonstrate this.

Example: The dog is very friendly.

Write a third linking sentence and underline the last word in the second sentence and the first work in the third one.

Example: Friendly dogs are fun to pet.

At this point, the student should understand the concept and be ready to begin to play.

Purpose of the game:

The purpose of this game is practice sentence structure and learn to flexibly use adjectives and nouns in particular to make sentences.

Classroom use:

This game is good as a warm-up or as an extension of a lesson on sentence structure or adjectives. The teacher can help the student make sentences or explain how to make sentences as part of the game.