Connecting Compounds

In my Young Leaders 1 class, we had a brief lesson on compound nouns. The class was split in two teams (boys vs girls, as they always want, even though it's unbalanced with a minority girls group... but it's OK... the girls are always smarter, right? :p ), and they had to race to finish putting all of the words in pairs to form compound nouns. The tricky thing is that they may only swap two items at a time. So there would be a lot of swapping around to be done.

The rules were that only one student could go up at a time, and only once he/she sat down could the next person go up. But of course, when are rules ever followed in an ESL kids class?

The game proved very exciting as the kids scrammed to finish before the other team, and at the same time, students laughed at the funny combination of compound nouns that were created in the midst of swapping all of the pieces to the right places. A lot of teamwork, eliciting answers, reading out loud different combos, and problem-solving involved!