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[jamiekarin]

I know there have been games threads. However many games I have found on websites, in books do not suit a class of 40+ students. Just wondering if anyone has any good game ideas for large classes, or links that I could follow up on. Thanks

I should also note that I teach middle school so the ability gap is extremely large

[ddeubel]

The best game that I know of, is one I created (no bias here ) I've got feedback from around the world and it is simple, multilevel and besides some English, it teaches students teamwork/cooperation.

Top 5. I have many versions and levels. Send me an email address by pm and I'll send you an invite to my powerpoint games folder. Lots there like Jeopardy/price is right / transl8it etc....see some of the games in outline here. I take it, you have a computer and screen?

http://www.esnips.com/doc/1fd05a11-5af8-4647-b7de-4dd687f63031/Multi-media-Games-at-the-batcave

Better yet, join us on my community and get much more in resources and ideas also.....

Good luck,

DD

[jamiekarin]

[Fishead soup]

Peer Dictation Races
For this activity the students must retell, and rewrite, a story, or passage.
The class in broken into teams of five. One student from each team is a writer, and the rest are runners. The runners take turns going to the front of the room, and read a sentence from a written page. Each team must compete to write the full passage first. This activity involves all four skills reading, writing ,speaking, and listening.

I admit ,when I first read about this method, I though that it would never work in a typical Korean public school class. This activity gets the whole class involved. Even the students that are otherwise apathetic, and lethargic.

The only drawback to this lesson is the class gets really noisy.

[Scouse Mouse]

Break them into 6 teams and play jeopardy. Take the first answer they give, so the team has to work together. If they get it wrong, offer the question to the team with the lowest points (encourages them to listen to the other teams answers so that they don't repeat it).

[Fishead soup]

Another variation of Jeopardy is giving the students the answers and make them come up with the questions.

answer :Mt. Everest

question: What is the hightest mountain in the world.

This forces them to work with a lot of the material in the second year text book.

[mytime]

Hangman!!!!!!!

[buster brown]

I concur with the peer dictation exercise. I used it in a couple of 50+ student Freshman English classes with great success. It didn't hurt to offer chocolate bars to the top 2 or 3 teams, either.

Also, making up your own survey works well. You've got to emphasize that each person needs to ask the questions and have the other student answer. Otherwise, one student asks all of the questions and 3 or 4 others sit around and write down the responses. At the top of the page, I list some sample questions and answers so that they use the proper structure each time.

[bosintang]

A few games I was successful with in middle-school.

- Guess what I'm thinking: I draw a picture of myself on the board with a bubble above my head. I write a word in the bubble like FRUITS and then tell the students I'm thinking of five fruits. The students in groups try to guess what I'm thinking and write down their answers in groups. They get points if they guess the same ones as me. I do this for several categories (E.g. fruits, school supplies, languages, etc.). At the easy end you can have the students guess simple vocabulary words (fruits: 1. apples 2. bananas, etc.) At the more difficult end you can have students guess full sentences. (5 countries bosintang-teacher wants to visit: 1. He wants to visit Jamaica. 2. He wants to visit China, etc.)

- I make two groups of students come stand in front of the class, face the front and tell them they can't look at the blackboard. I post sentences on the blackboard with words that are bolded, different colour, etc. that the rest of the students are not allowed to say. For example: To practice past tense, I put "He played baseball" on the board, and ask the students "What did Billy do yesterday?". The students in the front try to guess the sentence by listening and looking at their classmates who help them without saying the bolded words. I start with easy sentences ("He played baseball") and then get more difficult. ("He didn't finish his homework, so his teacher was angry.") The first group to correctly say the full sentence from start to finish gets points.

- Drama game: I take a bunch of dialogs from their textbooks and cut them into strips. I select some students from the class, take them outside and practice the dialogs, and have them silently act out the dialogs in front of the class. The rest of the class guess the dialogs the students are acting out and write them in their notebooks or on group whiteboards. I start with easy dialogs (2 lines) and if students are capable, I have them do more complex ones (3 or 4 lines or more).

[bacasper]

[ddeubel]

[applesandshanana]

I adapt the game Catch Phrase for my classroom here in the states, but it would be even better to use in an ESL setting.