How To Play: You may be familiar
with the game musical chairs. In that game you have one less chair
then people, so if you have 6 people playing you have 5 chairs.
You play music, and when the music stops the players have to find
a chair. With one less chair then people, one person can’t
sit and they are out.
With What’s Your Name? Musical Chairs ask all your students
to write their names on two pieces of paper. Put as many chairs
as students and place one of the name cards on each chair. I actually
played with a table so I put one set of name cards on the table.
You, the teacher, hold the other set of name cards. Play the Free
Download Dream English Song What’s
Your Name? on your cd player and have the students walk around
the chairs or table in a circle. I ask the students to sing along,
and if they don’t they are automatically out. When you want,
stop the song. The students have to either sit down on the closest
chair to them, or in front of a name card on the table. Ask one
student to pick a name card from your hand. Don’t let them
see the names though. After the student has picked the card have
all the other students ask “What’s your name?”
The student who picked the card answers, for example, “My
name is Matt”. Whoever is sitting on or by the name card
Matt is out. Remember it is not necessarily the student named
“Matt” who it out, but the one who is sitting on that
name card. Continue until there is only one player left! They
are the winner.
What I do to make it more fun is that when a player is out, they
get to play stop on the CD player. I also let the players who
are out pick the name cards. This keeps all the students involved
in the game until the end. I played this game with my 6-9 year
olds today, and they asked to play it again 3 times! It’s
simple but it helps with basic questions, getting to know one
another and basic reading. Give it a try, and let us know how
it went! You can downlad What’s
Your Name for free here! Have fun!