Wheel Drill

Do your students never study outside of class? This helps them drill each other and be drilled, working with different partners every time.

1. On the board, write down the items you're working on with your class (it could be verbs that take gerunds and/or infinitives, or vocab items). Make sure all the answers (classifications, definitions, whatever it is you want them to know) are visible on the board.

2. Make Ss form two rows: one row with its back to the board, another row facing the board. At the same time, both rows should be facing each other. You need an even number of Ss for this, so if the number is uneven, the teacher can join in!

3. Once Ss are seated and facing each other, the one who can see the board starts drilling his/her partner who cannot see the board. Every minute or so, the T can blow a whistle or ring a bell, and Ss move on to the next seat, and start working with a new partner (or, instead of the next seat, they could move two seats up, or the T could vary it every time).