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[lorenchristopher]

Anyone know of any good ones? I'm thinking next week will be a slacker week for me and I don't want to give a word search.

My favorite time-killer games are:
Mafia http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:952329976-25633.txt

BAAM http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topics/826870:Topic:47425

Scattegories http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=83027#thetop (message me and I can email you the originals)

BINGO: kids make their own cards from an elicited list I've written on the board, I write down the words on slips of paper, they pull them from a bag and make sentences. At the end I make them ball up their bingo cards and try to throw them in the trash can I'm holding and slowly moving around in a circle. It's silly, but they love it.

All of these take up at LEAST 30 minutes....do you know of any other fun games that take up a lot of time and won't require too much participation on my part? Thanks! [/url]

[Goku]

How in GODS name do you explain the rules of mafia to the kids?

[lorenchristopher]

[greedy_bones]

I also recommend two truths one lie. It's pretty simple and a good way to get the students to talk about themselves. Each student takes turns telling two true things about themselves and one lie. Everyone else has to guess which thing is a lie. The first person to guess correctly gets to go next.

[zpeanut]

For at least pre-int level.

Materials: Music, Alphabet die or letters on paper, ball.

Students toss around ball when music is playing, stop the music. Student who has ball picks a letter/rolls dice. Check letter and class picks a topic beginning with that letter that Student must speak on for 1 minute.

Don't have a name for this one..

[ddeubel]

Long ago for some kind teachers, I experimented in making a
similar game to mafia. Powerpoint style. Read the last slides to see how to play or adapt for yourself. I also have a score board type game, Murder Maddness. Students if they answer review questions right, get to try and find the murder and get bonus points...... But some teachers might want to pass on these kinds of games...depends.

I have done a lot of games but the easiest is to play Top 5 in teams. Use the scorecard handout. Really simple and students just list their top 5 for the category. They get 2 points for each correct answer that matches and more if it is in the right rank. Add all scores in the group to get a group score. You'll have a group and individual winner at the end.

Price is Right is cool. There are Korean won or ToysRUS U.S. dollar versions. Very easy to play. Give a group a whiteboard (just laminate an A4). They guess and then reveal the price. Closest gets the bonus question. Keep score with money (photocopy and make a bag full which they choose from when they win a point). Most money wins.

Try the Games (under play - scroll down) or the powerpoint games under resources for even more games..... Get the photocopiable money in many places - easiest is under Resources - Games - board games. Photocopy the monopoly money there).

Happy playing. Keep it simple, keep it fun.

DD
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[kimchi_pizza]

Mafia is a good one but I clean it up a bit and call it "Ghost Story" with Ghosts, ghost catchers and healer/doctor and use simple poker cards to assign roles. I also use English as much as possible such as "everyone go to sleep", "everyone wake up." "Who do you think is a ghost?", "I think it's _____ because______." When the students get the hang of it, I choose one of them to be the story teller as I participate or observe and correct language usage. It's been a hit from 6-year-olds to uni students.
I don't recommend it with adults as they take it personally that they've been "bumped off"!

Also, any popular Korean game shows that you can convert into English language games are also a big hit.

[waynehead]

I play Mafia with upper elem/earlymiddle school students all the time. They love it. Some classes actually beg me to play it every lesson. You do have to go very slow when explaining it, tho, but once they get the hang of it it's a blast.

[lorenchristopher]

Thanks guys....any other ones you have are welcome!

[ddeubel]

Just updating this thread since I've posted up a few new games.

Baseball would definitely be a pure "time killer" , kind of like Baam except you are trying to hit home runs.

Name 3 would also be one.

http://bit.ly/LTZkF7

[Whistleblower]

For me a really good game to recycle vocabulary or anything that has been studied during the week is a game called "Genghis Khan". Divide the class into two or more teams (it works well with teams of four or five) and then set up a few questions before hand.

Divide the board in half (or how ever many teams you have in the class) and then write the word "Genghis Khan" on the board (written each for every team - so if you have two teams you write up Genghis Khan twice on each side of the board). The next step is to give each team a card that they have to raise if they know the answer to the question.

Ask a question (perhaps related to what they have studied) and the team which knows an answer must raise their card and say their answer when nominated. For example, a question could be:

"How would you say 'advise' in the past?" - Answer: Advised.

If a team knows the answer, and chooses a letter (for example 'A'), they must choose a letter then say their answer. The team with a correct answer has one of the letters removed from "Genghis Khan" if an answer is correct. The team that has all the letters removed is considered the winner.

Obviously this game requires a bit of preparation with some consideration with the questions and possible answers so it is best to recycle/review vocabulary or grammar at the end of the week with this activity.

I hope you understand the rules of this game and put it to good use. It can last a good fifteen minutes if required and the students start to get really competitive.