Students make groups and pick a number (1-5). They each get a worksheet. All students go to ‘sleep’ – i.e. they close their eyes and put their heads on their desks.

One student at a time in each group is called by their number to be ‘awake’ – i.e. they can open their eyes and look at the board. A word or two from a mixed up sentence is written on it and they need to remember it without saying it out loud or writing it down.

The student then goes back to ‘sleep’ and the next group member ‘wakes up’ and reads the next part of the sentence. All students in the group then wake up and work together to put together the sentence. At this point they can write each other’s words on the worksheet and put the sentence in order.