1. Bring four or five props into class that have something to do with the vocabulary your students are studying. For example, if they are studying reflexive verbs, bring a mirror that they can use to look at themselves, a jacket students can put on, a boxed bar of soap they can use to pretend to wash themselves, etc.
2. Have students look at the props and write sentences about them. For example, "I look at myself in the mirror."
3. Students read their sentences aloud, and mistakes are corrected. The best (or most interesting) sentence for each prop is selected.
4. Students listen-and-repeat the selected sentences while the tutor acts out their meanings, and then say the appropriate sentence as the tutor goes from prop to prop, miming the appropriate actions.
5. The props are then placed in a line on the desk. Students form a line by the desk. One-by-one, students say the sentences while using the props to act out their meaning. For example, for the sentence "I look at myself in the mirror and smile at myself," the students would pick up the mirror, say the sentence, and act it out.
6. Students then take turns inventing sentences about the props for a classmate to act-out, switching roles between acting and speaking.
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