Korean Job Discussion Forums

[seoulman1]

Ive just started teaching kinda childeren and experienced the dread when you are given 20mins of teaching material for a 50min class... Are there any good games to overcome the time other than hangman?

[huffdaddy]

[seoulman1]

ive never played tic tac toe..

[thebum]

simon says. it's tpr and they love it. it's fun to trick them too. they get so into it.

[Hotpants]

I assume you mean kindy, rather than kind'a or kinder or kind kids?
There are actually zillions of things you can do with them, and this is something you'll find out with time.
Some initial ideas: slap the (x) flashcard on the table as you call it out; picture dictation; action songs; story-reading; hunt the object by giving preposition based instructions; all sorts of activity worksheets....
Lots of free web ideas on my link below - just scroll down to 'k' for kindergarten. Also, look for Tomato's postings - lots of great ideas from a kindy master...

[huffdaddy]

[jlb]

There's a forum here on Daves with a multitude of ideas. Spend an hour and make a list of stuff you think might work. It's what I did and it has been well worth my time.

[seoulman1]

done and done.

[Son Deureo!]

Try drawing a monster underneath your hangman board, waiting to eat the person. That oughta spice up your hangman games!

[oneofthesarahs]

[tomato]

Seoulman1, I keep a list of people who ask the question which you just asked:

22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

The next time someone asks this question, this thread will become thread number 23.

[ilovebdt]

When I taught small people, I used to play this game.

Each team had to draw the thing I named and the first team to draw the correct picture won a point.

The used to love it!

Or you can write lots of words they know on the board and I would say a word and the first team to rub off the correct word won a point.

Point to note: The second game can get quite violent especially if boys are playing.

ilovebdt

[jimmiethefish]

Here's a couple of books I've found to be handy.

'How to Teach Children in Asia' has lots of tips and activities. I haven't read it in a while but I seem to recall a lot of activities for the young'uns with a focus on TPR.

Another one is 'Five-Minute Activities' by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright. There are over 100 short activities and many of them can be easily adapted to whatever level you're teaching. Activities like Imaginative Identifications, Feel the Object, Draw a Word, Invisible Elephant, Slow Reveal and many more should appeal and hopefully, spark their imaginations.

Both are available through whatthebook.com

[ddeubel]

Zip Zap

My grade 4s would play this the whole day if I let them. Modified for EFL purposes.

Form a circle. One student in the middle is the boss. They twirl around pointing and saying zip zip zip zip zip . They stop at one person and say .............

In the conventional English game they say zap. The person pointed to must duck and the two students on either side must draw and shoot the other person. The person shot, sits down and is out of the game. Continue playing until only two left. They go back to back and on ZAP, out draw each other. Winner then gets the middle. Start over.

But in the EFL modified version, the student in the middle says zip zip zip zip zip and when stopping at a student, can say any variety of options. Depends on how you play.

Can be;

A letter -- the two on either side draw and must say a word beginning with the letter. Or you can make it last letter.

Colour -- the two on either side must name something which is mostly that colour.

Verb -- the two on that side must name a noun which corresponds to the verb. Ex. Run - shoe / leg / foot / away / race etc....

Noun -- same as above but they must say a very that corresponds. Ex. House - live, clean, sleep, cook etc.....

Country -- students must name the nationality/language or you can also play, city/geographical feature.

Other variations. Naming opposites, name-feature etc....

Kids love the game and it is just addictive. You will also be surprised at who often wins, isn't always the best student.

DD

[kat2]

This is my ultimate fall back "Oh my god, there's 10 minutes left and we've nothing to do" game. It takes no prep, and for some reason, the kindy age likes it.

Draw a game board. Just a long "snake" with maybe 10 squares (depending on how much time you have left." Sometimes I make it a snake, sometimes an animal like a spider that has to get home to his web, whatever. In each space, I write a letter (for phonics), a word (for reading), a number (which coresponds to a flashcard), anything you want to teach.

Divide the kids in 2 or 3 teams.

Put something in your hand (like an eraser) behind your back. One kid from a team comes up. If he choses the hand with the earaser, his team moves forward two spaces. No eraser, one space. The kid that came to the front has to answer whatever is in the space. If he answers, incorrectly then they have to go back a space (this still rewards the kid for picking hte eraser hand. At least the not-so-good-at-english kid can help his team by picking the right hand this way).

Whatever team reaches the end first, wins.

It takes no prep. you can use it to study anything. Its super simple, but my kids always request it.