Pantomine Game

Rivers, Wilga M. (ed.) Interactive Language Teaching. can be borrowed from the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center Library.

A pantomine is a scene in body language which can be used to elicit spoken or written language. Pantomines are just as enjoyable for the student mimes as they are for the students trying to guess what the mimes are doing. In practical terms, students in groups of two or three prepare a pantomime and act it out in front of the members of the class, who try to guess, orally or in writing, what the mimes are doing. Pantomimes are very usefuyl for demonstrating verbs and adjectives. Student mimes can even be asked toact out a series of related scenes (e.g., two fishermen go fishing, catch two big fish, bring them home, clean them, and eat them - but they have too many bones!)