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4.      Hanging the laundry (you can use two card holders)

a.      Divide the class into two teams.

2. Write in cards the words of the text (one set for each team).
3. Give a card to each member of the team, if possible.
4. There will be a rope hanging in front of them, as a cable.
5. When you say “go”, the team members have to try to “hang the cards” in the right order, according to the word each of them have.
6. The first team to put the text together wins.

5.     The candy basket

1. Form a circle with the students.
2. Put one candy for each child in the basket.
3. The basket is passed from student to student, while each one of them says a word in the text, in the right order.
4. If a student makes a mistake or can’t say the right word, he has to sit down.
5. This is repeated until all the students who are in the circle have said the text without making mistakes.
6. Divide the candies among the winners.

6.     The poisonous cloth

1. Repeat the text with the students several times.
2. Throw the poisonous cloth while saying the first word of the text.
3. The student who catches it repeats the next word in order.
4. That student throws it, and it continues that way until the whole text has been said.