Who Has?
The interactive game "Who has?" helps children practice vocabulary and improve listening abilities. Before you play this game, make sure you have already taught students the identity of fruits and their names in Chinese. Give each child a plastic fruit item to hold and ask them to raise it high whenever the name of that fruit is called. You begin the game by calling out each fruit's name in Chinese. If a kid identifies the name of his fruit correctly, ask the whole class to applaud for him. This game enables children to identify the items quickly in Chinese.
Around the World
"Around the World" is an interactive, competitive game that requires participation of a large number of children, which makes it an appropriate game for a classroom. If there are 10 students in the class, give them each a letter from A to J. Then ask student A to sit with student B and start the game by making a Chinese character on the board. Whoever identifies the character correctly gets to sit with student C. The game continues this way until the last student completes the circle and comes back to his original seat. If a student comes back to the original seat, he wins the game and is declared to have gone around the world.
Guess!
If you have already taught children the names of body parts with pictures in Chinese, this would be an effective game to test their knowledge. This game may help children master words and expressions concerning body parts. Tell the children that you are thinking of a body part and children ask related questions to guess the name of that body part in Chinese.
What Color Is It?
"What Color Is It?" is a game that helps students memorize Chinese names of different colors. Place colored pens in an envelope, then take out a colored pen from the envelope and ask children to say the Chinese name of that color. Whoever answers correctly gets the colored pen as a prize.