Doctor SMS

Simple and fun. It won’t take up a full 60-90 minute class but it will definitely give your students something original to practice their quick writing skills with.

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Instructions

Students play in small groups or as a class.

Choose a student to start. Without giving away which, the student responds to one of the SMS messages on the sheet by typing their response in the chat. (Alternatively, you can choose a message and send it to the first student to get the ball rolling.)

The first student to correctly guess which SMS they are responding to gets a point and then can choose another SMS to respond to. Play until all the messages have been used. The student with the most points at the end wins.

Take the necessary amount of time to properly correct errors. There are always a lot of them in this type of short writing exercises because it is difficult to express oneself precisely in only a few words. The lack of context also complicates the exercise, forcing students to be more precise with their responses.

There you have it. Simple and fun. It won’t take up a full 60-90 minute class but it will definitely give your students something original to practice with.

For example:

The first student secretly chooses SMS 2 and writes:

“You should simply lie down and breathe slowly. Take a moment to calm down and you’ll feel better”.

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Nicolas Bragard

As a teacher of ESL and French as a foreign language for several years, I have had the opportunity to work in several countries and with a wide variety of students. Now my job got even better: I get to help make your lessons all pretty and fun! Rather cool, I'd say.

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