Autumn / Fall: Vocabulary Fitness for the English Classroom

Vocabulary Fitness is a presentation for short exercise breaks in which the children repeat English autumn words while marching on the spot. When a picture such as hedgehog, chestnut or rubber boots appears, they shout the English word, and between the pictures they do exercises such as squats or star jumps.

This is included in the material

• PowerPoint presentation with 40 picture slides, each showing an autumn picture without a word, and 13 exercises with English names, one of which follows every three pictures
• Instruction slide for the class, which briefly summarizes the procedure and shows the example picture apple
• Vocabulary overview with the autumn pictures and their English words
• Teacher’s notes page with instructions on how the activity works

Tips for using the material

As the teacher clicks from slide to slide, they can decide how long each picture and exercise is shown.

These skills are promoted

• Vocabulary related to autumn, because the picture slides do not show a word and the children recall each English word from memory
• Speaking, because the children shout the word aloud for each picture

More materials with English autumn words are available as a Vocabulary Quiz, Running Dictation, Wheel of Fortune, and Word and Picture Cards.