If you have different color markers or chalk, write each sentence in different color. Finally, ask the students to arrange the sentences into a dialogue or to create a role-play based where they must use these phrases.
Ask the students to change pairs (or move between groups) and check their answers. The Activity: Students work together in pairs or small groups to order the words and reconstruct the sentences. There is a number in the bottom right-hand corner to indicate the number of sentences inside the square (a number 1 circled in red means there is 1 sentence). I have divided the board into quarters in this example, because I have four example sentences. Word Jumble in a gridĭivide the board into a grid. All you need a board and something to write with. The sentences can be original, they can be taken from a course book, or they can be a way to introduce corrections. Word Jumble can be a good zero-prep activity, you only need a few sentences.
It can be a useful activity as a first step to introducing key phrases or a dialogue. I have used this activity a few times and I have tried several different ways of presenting it. In ‘Five-minute activities’ (Penny Ur & Andrew Wright, Cambridge University Press) it is called Jumbled Sentences. It appears in several activity books and I have come across it in various course books as well. Word Jumble is a great activity to introduce example sentences and it allows students to think about sentence structure.
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