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[IncognitoHFX]

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I just had my second Winter Camp class today. As it turns out, I'll have no video and audio available to me. The classroom I'm using has a projector and an audio hook-up, unfortunately both the projector and the audio equipment are kaput.

Today's class went horribly as I had an audio CD / Movie Clip combo planned under the assumption that it would work. I spent twenty minutes trying to get it to work, then the other thirty minutes having a conversation with the students.

Maintenance politely assured me "sound... no, video... no." I asked to have it fixed six months ago and instead they just gave me a different classroom. During this camp, no extra classrooms are available as the school has even more students present then it did before the break.

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Does anyone have any non-video, non-audio related lesson plan ideas for a Winter Camp? I was thinking about bringing in Scrabble or Monopoly (the students are all high level) but I won't be able to get out to the place where I can buy those until the weekend.

Thanks

[TheChickenLover]

Yes, yes & yes.

My solution is simple. Buy your own AV equipment (computers, etc). Then NEVER allow anyone to use them to keep everything in running order.

Problem solved

Chicken

[Rusty Shackleford]

Today I did the classroom english and the riddles lessons off boggles world. They work pretty well. Riddles are probably one of my favorite activities. For the low level kids its best to get the high level students to relay, in Korean, the facts of the riddle. Even the low english level students can usually work it out.

Also played the game where you print off a story and get the students to relay the story to their team captain, who has to write it down. Each member of the team relays one sentence at a time, back and forth across the classroom. Helps to break the story into bite sized chunks. Did Tortoise and the Hare today. It's nice to back it up with a video of the story though, as it keeps the structure of the story in their minds.

Anything that gets them moving is good. I nearly got beaten up by some Korean kids last week after the 50th handout. So these so called "task based activities" work quite well. Not sure how much englishee they are really picking up though.

[HyundaiGenisis]

I make full use of the worksheets available on http://bogglesworldesl.com/.

Some other ideas... "speed quiz"... the students love this. Divide up the class into teams of 3-4, have them write down 10 words that can be acted out, have the groups exchange their word list with other groups and have them act out the words in front of you, it's kind of like charades. Have a stop watch to see what team can act out the 10 words the fastest, the winning team gets a small prize. Feel free to PM for other ideas if you like.