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[Dome Vans]

As it's coming to that time of year and generally the idea of a lesson plan disappears, and the lesson gets replaced by games. Does anyone have suggestions for games they've used in the classroom that have been a big hit? It'd be nice to have team games that get competitive and involve using the board a bit.

or have you found it better to watch christmas dvds?

Ideas?

[sojourner1]

Don't forget Christmas songs too. If you have the equipment and you are not micromanaged, then you can show DVD's or downloaded children's shows.

[Samantha]

You could do a christmas pictionary. It teaches the vocabulary and gets the students at the board trying to draw things.

Holiday password. They have to get their partner teammates to guess a word without using 1 or 2 specific words to describe it.

Jeopardy-this one would be a little more complicated to make the categories but it could be a lot of fun.

Old stand-by some form of holiday vocab Bingo, or if you have the time you could go through the textbook and pull vocab/grammar structures to make the squares. This would also work for Jeopardy, they have to give the response to the grammar structure or identify the vocab term.

If you do songs you could do a name that tune type thing if you have a chance to listen to the music first for a while. Carols would also let you do Karaoke/pronunciation practice, or listening practice where you give them the lyrics with holes in it and they have to fill in the missing words. Having the missing words could also be a madlibs exercise if they no the grammar terminology.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Do they help?

[garykasparov]

Give the two students who fart the loudest in the Korean Teacher's classroom a snickers bar.

[Dome Vans]

[Samantha]

no problem. I wish I had the option to do something like this. I'm supposed to get the students through as much of their textbook as possible. We're on Chapter 14 out of 16 with 3 weeks left...I can't play/slack off as much as I would like.

[ddeubel]

I think you will find a lot of Christmas material and games stuff in our Christmas folder. http://eflclassroom.ning.com I just did a redo of the popular Christmas singalong ppt which had gotten hundreds of downloads to my surprise previously.

I like playing whiteboard soccer with the Christmas vocab or even the Christmas Jeopardy. You just draw a huge soccer pitch on the board and put a magnet in the middle. Divide the class into two teams (though I've made two crossing pitches and played with 4 teams). If a team keeps answering right, they continue to move the ball. If they score, they give up the ball. If they answer wrong, they give up the ball. Use a yellow / red card for noise, not raising hands and other things.....gets exciting!

I'm going to post up a Fling the Teacher Christmas edition/game tonight. Like want to be a millionaire but instead of the dough, students get to fling the teacher.....

DD

[ddeubel]

[Samantha]

DD, the link doesn't work

[ddeubel]

Oops, sorry. This will work

http://www.eflclassroom.com/flash/christmasedition.swf

DD

[Samantha]

DD~

One of your questions says "In America, the day after Christmas is a holiday called _________" Answer: Boxing Day.


Boxing Day isn't an American holiday, it's Canadian/British. The US doesn't do Boxing day, for us Dec 26th is just the day after Christmas. A majoity of Americans spend the day cleaning-up, tossing out the tree, returning bad presents, and hitting the sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_day

[agentX]

Snowball fight.
Have them write a question in English on a piece of scratch paper.
They then ball up the paper and throw it at each other.
Give 'em 2 minutes of anarchy.
Blow your whistle.
They have to pick up the snowballs and ask each other a question from the sheet.
Repeat.

[ddeubel]

Samantha,

[crusher_of_heads]

DAvid D-thanks!

[Dome Vans]

As usual excellent suggestions from the man-ddeubel! Hope you are feeling better soon.