What do you want for Christmas?
is a question that many children will be asked during the upcoming holiday season.
This is the perfect opportunity to bring in actual toys for the kids to talk about.
Mystery Box
One of our favorite ways of introducing new items is with the Mystery Box.
Its easy to make a Mystery Box and it may quickly become one of your favorite teaching tools.
you might make a Mystery Box out of any box.
Just looking at the box itself can be a whole activity.
Play theMystery Box songand point to the box.
Ask students what they think is inside.
you’re able to give hints and have them guess.
Look inside and act very surprised, intrigued, and excited to build the tension.
Slowly pull out one item, in this case, a toy, and have students identify it.
Look it over together, demonstrate how to use it and make up a gesture for it.
Pass it around so everyone can take a closer look.
Then move on to the next item.
Heres a video from MILK English in South Korea.
you could see just how fun a Mystery Box can be!
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