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Grammar Auction
Teams bid on sentences they think are correct. Wrong bids lose points.
⏱ 20-25 min⚡ Low energy👥 Teams of 3-4
📚 Vocabulary
• grammar structures
• tense usage
• sentence correction
• lesson grammar points
🛠 Materials
• 10-15 sentences (mix of correct and incorrect)
• Fake money or points for each team
• Whiteboard to display sentences
📋 How to Play
- Prepare 10-15 sentences — some grammatically correct, some with errors.
- Give each team 100 points to spend as their budget.
- Display each sentence on the board one at a time.
- Teams discuss quietly — is this sentence correct or incorrect?
- Teams bid points on sentences they believe are CORRECT.
- After all bids, reveal whether the sentence was correct.
- Teams who bid on a correct sentence keep their bid and gain the same amount.
- Teams who bid on an incorrect sentence lose their bid.
- The team with the most points at the end wins.
💡 Teacher Tips
✓Use grammar points from the current lesson — past tense, articles, prepositions.
✓Make some sentences obviously correct and some obviously wrong — mix difficulty.
✓After revealing the answer, always explain WHY the sentence is correct or incorrect.
✓This game teaches critical thinking alongside grammar — students must justify their bids.
🔄 Variations
→Teams must also correct the wrong sentences to earn bonus points.
→Individual play — each student has their own budget.
→Use vocabulary instead of grammar — bid on correct definitions.
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