Running dictation is a great way to enliven a tired class.
Use your own short text. Cut the text into sentences and place them around the room. Split the class into groups or pairs. Each group must have one runner and a designated writer, or all the students in the group can be writers.The runner has to go around the room and read the sentences - commiting them to memory - they are not allowed to touch the paper, take the paper back to the group or shout the sentence across the room. Once they think they can remember the sentence they return to the group and repeat to them what it said.
The writers of the group writes down the sentence as it is dictated, if the runner forgets part of the sentence they are allowed to go back to the paper and re-read it (same rules apply). Each pupil in the group can be a runner.
At the end each group can check the spelling and something has to e done about the text they have written (order the sentences, draw...)
