GAME: Zip...Zap...Sorry?

It's a good warm-up/review activity
Simple game. but it's a lot of fun.
I used it during 5.5 lesson when learning what to say when you didn't hear someone.
could be used for teaching "This is...(gr4)
or in a Special Class (gr6 review)

Pepare three very different objects.
ex) an orange, a spoon and a plastic pineapple

Students sit in a large circle.
Demonstrate the game with co-teacher.
"This is a ZIP."
"Sorry?"
"a ZIP!"
"Oh! a ZIP!"
Ten you pass it around the circle. let them get used to saying it. some will be embarrassed, some will do it well. (I rewarded the best speakers with stickers) when it gets back to you and you have everyonje's attention, you ask them is this REALLY a ZIP? NO! It's an orange...but just for fun we call it a ZIP.
What is this?
Whole class/Teacher:
(...a spoon!)
"No, it's a ZAP!"
"Sorry?"
"a ZAP!"
"Oh, a ZAP!"

Start by passing the ZIP around the same way...
After a few kids get it going, send the ZAP the other way around...
It gets funny when the ZIP and ZAP cross paths and one student gets both at the same time.

---IF YOU REALLY WANT TO CHALLENGE THEM, TIME IT! THEN SEE IF THEY CAN DO IT FASTER.

--For added fun, add a ZOP. (that's my pineapple) and toss it in without anyone noticing.

The game results in lots of English conversation going around and tons of fits of giggling.