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Get yourself a children's dot-to-dot activity book. Pick a couple of pictures. White out the numbers and add your own. Make them random, and add similar numbers around the one needed to draw the picture. For example, put 60, 66, 16, & 76 all within the same vicinity. Scatter other numbers around the picture so it's not obvious where to go.

Very important: As you add the numbers needed to create the design, keep yourself a list in order. Label one picture A & the other B. At the bottom of A, put the number sequence necessary to draw picture B, and on the bottom of B, the sequence necessary to draw picture A. Pass out an A & B sheet to each 2 partners. A reads the number sequence on the bottom of her sheet, while partner B draws lines on her sheet from the numbers A is reading; then they switch roles.

It's fun; it's noisy because half the class is talking at the same time, and it's easy to see if the students have said correctly & understood the numbers, based on what the final picture looks like. It takes a few minutes to create these sheets, but then you have them for years. Plus because they are not language specific, you can share/switch them with all your language colleagues.

Howard, S. Great activity for practicing numbers. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (10 Sept. 2005).
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