School subjects & opinions - sentence building

Give each pupil a word then say a sentence in English - if they have a word that makes up that sentence, they go to the front & get in the correct order. Start off with a very simple sentence (e.g. I like French) then show them how this can be built up by adding reasons, connectives, intensifiers etc. I use this to lead into them writing their own paragraphs, trying to develop their sentences as much as possible. \nI print the words on different coloured paper to show what type of word it is - e.g. blue for masculine nouns, light blue for masc adjectives, green for connectives, and so on.