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Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

The other day, bored with the coursebook, work,English and generally each other..my students and I decided to have a rollicking good game of football in the classroom.
I went in goal(the teachers desk) while each of my dishdash,sandal wearing pupils took turns in blasting goalwards the small plastic ball we had found in the carpark.
It was a raving success....everybody joined in and sport in the classroom proved a real winner.
After the break there was a great demand to switch sports and play tennis using magazines as raquets but i had to say no as we were all too exhausted from the footie...after all we had the next days rematch to conserve energy for!

Does anybody else play games other than boring language ones in their classroom?

khmerhit · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject:

You name it, we played it. bloody benches were awkward, so we moved them around or absconded to the school balcony...

red rover
tag
hockey
footie

but the one they loved was the Treasure Hunt, with a series of clues etc.
(It takes a while to set it up).

games are groovy

kh

Very Happy

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

Red ROver?

Footie?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Comparitive and Superlative Olympics

richard ame · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 319 Location: Republic of Turkey

Hi

I have to agree with the op our usual diet of language /reading /writing classes gets a bit boring ,so when the kids boredom is eclipsed by my own I feel the need tyo break off and something reckless.
The problem is then they expect it all the time and when another teacher comes in to teach another subject the kids unwittingly drop you in the perverbial cowpat .
The most I have managed to do so far is the yes no interlude get them to answer questions without using those words or even I don't know ,even a nod or a shake of the head is not permitted about a minute is the best they can do ,so I start at 2 minutes and reduce by 5 seconds therafter it makes them laugh at least and they do pick up fairly quickly the right answers to give so it does have a limited life span ,good fun though .

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

I play mafia with some of my classes! They are forced to talk in English to defend themselves and try to catch the real Mafia.... Always a winner and it is quite relaxing for the entire class, myself included!

it is funny sometimes to see the same person being picked on every round and the desperation on that person's face: "Why do they think I am Mafia everytime?" "Do I look like a criminal?"... Cool

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

I had a class in Japan of kids for six years every single week. And every week we would play our version of "hockey". I swear that is what made that class both successful and long lasting. I'm still in touch with the kids by mail.

SLA theory claims relaxing fun lowers the affective filter...