Race whispers or silent spelling

Choose three sentences for the race. Get students into teams of 6-7 students. All students need to say the whole sentence. Teams have to race to be the first to finish. It works well when students are sitting across the room so you can see and hear everything. I asked the last person to stand when they had finished so I could clearly see who had won. It gets quite loud even though they were supposed to be whispering!

Instead of whispering, students at the back of each team are given a word which they spell out using their finger on the back of the person in front. The word is passed on through the team in this way and the front person writes it down on a piece of paper.