2. TIC TAC TOE
Materials: Board and chalk or markers
Worksheet 71 for variation game
Dynamic: Teams
Time: 10 minutes
Procedure: 1. Draw a tic tac toe grid on the board and fill in verbs or expressions
that take prepositions, as indicated on the next page. Divide the
class into two teams.
1 interested 2 on 3 apologized 4 insist 5 for
6 to 7 afraid 8 thank you 9 instead 10 about
11 for 12 excited 13 in 14 start 15 in
16 of 17 to 18 accustomed 19 fool 20 ofbe used stop me be responsible
insist be capable look forward
object talk be remembered
2. The object is to fill in the preposition that follows each verb. A
player on the first team goes to the board and fills in the word in
the square of his/her choice, then sits down. The first player from
the opposing team goes to the board. He/she has the choice of
either completing another word or correcting what he/she thinks is
someone else’s incorrect completion. The first team with three
correct answers in a row, any direction, is the winner.
Variation: Divide the class into groups of three. You can become the third person
in a group of two, or, if one student is left over, make one team of four.
Two students are the players in a group of three, and the third
student is the judge, who may have his/her grammar book open to the
list of preposition combinations. He/she decides if a player has filled in
the correct word. (In a group of four there are two judges.) Distribute
one worksheet to each group.
After the first game, the students change roles so the judge becomes a
player. Continue until all students have had a chance to be the judge.