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flyingkiwi

Hi all,
I have to come up with something by tomorrow for reviewing some words that the students have learnt for an upcoming test. Before I have done flashcards, with English on one side and Japanese on the other, they just have to guess the word.

I have also done a bingo game where the students write in the reviewed words and I paraphrase them and they have to guess them.

Does anyone else have any ideas for reviewing about 50 words for a test?

Has to be a 10-15 minute activity.

Cheers.

JaredW · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:14 am Post subject:

Age of participants?

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:27 am Post subject:

It would help to know what the words are as well. For example "body parts" can be practiced by having the Ss label a picture of a person.

You could get Ss to group words. Have them figure out if the words are adjectives, verbs, nouns.

In the case of adjectives you could have an activity in which they have to pair up the opposites.

You could try a crossword and give clues. A good resource would be puzzlemaker.com:

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/

Anyway, a little more specific information would be useful. No doubt I am suggesting some things that are of no use to you, though that isn't my fault.

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:31 am Post subject:

By the way, the crossword idea can be done communicatively by giving one set of students the "across" clues and the other set the "down" clues. Have them sit in pairs but with a space between their desks, this forces them to have to speak across to their partner and ask them for the clues.

flyingkiwi · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:41 am Post subject:

Age is high school students.

Words are animal names, various other words such as 'field', 'know', 'motor', etc.

I've decided to do a version of a game I did last term, row game, give each row a cloth to pass up and down their rows while music plays. When the music stops a student from each row must stand up and name the word that I am talking about.

Anyway, thank you furious for the suggestions.

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

Make a board game with squares around the piece of paper. (kind of like a Monopoly board on an A3 sheet of paper) Fill in the squares with the vocabulary/questions/hints/sample phrases etc. Photocopy the board. Have the students in small groups roll a dice and with their token go around the board, ask/answer/give hints/translate etc. and play the game.

sallycat · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 303 Location: behind you. BOO!

a version of pictionary where 1 student draws and the competing teams have to figure out the answer in a group, then send a runner up to write it on the board? would work for the animal words...

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Make BINGO cards 3x3. You or the students fill them in with the necessary words IN INK.

Then, you call out definitions of all the words you feel are on their lists. Someone, ANYone can shout out the word you just defined. It doesn't matter who. Once you've established that they know the meaning and the word, they look for the WORD on their cards. The rest is regular BINGO rules.

Start over from scratch after a winner is declared.

kinshachi · Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 50 Location: Sydney

Divide the class into two teams, with one representative from each team sitting in a chair facing away from the board. Write a word on the board, and have each team give a definition, mime, etc. without saying the word or trying to spell it. The first team to get it gets a point. An oldie but a goodie.