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[daz1979]

Nice one people!

This is actually turning into a very useful thread for all age groups.

[jonbowman88]

Paper airplane contest are nice. takes maybe 40 mins

teach how to make them

then have the kids color them

then have a competition. Furthest flight, most accurate flight, craziest flight and most beautiful.

I always take my kids to the gym last period every other day to play soccer or somethin stupid. One game the kids love is to divide them into 2 teams. Say something like "if you are wearing blue shoes" and throw a ball. the first team to get the ball gets a point. My wife calls it the dog game. "you can also say stuff like "If you are Korean and everyone chases the ball. good fun, a little dangerous. You can also assign the kids a number, food or something and say "if you are a hamburger"

[matthews_world]

[jenna740]

Wow......this is really useful, thanks everyone

I seem to be lacking inspiration right now, but I'm going to blame it on the fact I don't know how many students I will have, for how long each day or what their level is. (Although even are highest elvel students' English is pretty low). All I know is I have 4 weeks of winter camp!

For a variety of games, worksheets and powerpoints, go to www.barryfunenglish.com.

Some other ideas ......

Blind Date (students must choose someone famous to be!)
(For older/higher level students) SMS/Instant message lingo
Short role play (From an English soap that they have previously watched!)
(I work at a girls' high school) Create your ideal boyfriend!

I really like the astrology idea, as again, my HS girls will loe that!
But there are many great ideas on here, so thanks again for everyone who has contributed and I will update with anymore ideas I have!

[daz1979]

Blind date would be fun!!

Wonder if I could find a huge divider for the front of class.....

[daz1979]

[Kaypea]

Fantastic thread! I really enjoy the afterschool and camp classes, because you can try so many great things.

My Co-teach and I are going to make rockets with baking soda and vinegar one day.

I really enjoy fortune-telling type classes, but if your class is rowdy (ie too many boys) go slow with that one and devote more time than you think you'll need

I think I'm going to do a New Year's resolution class with my students: just explain what a "New Year's resolution" is, and have them make posters: "You should ___ in 2010." Great for conditional future tense...

I also put together a popular activity, in which I show movie trailers from Youtube and have the kids write about which movies they want to see and why, and which ones they don't and why. This can allow you to get some insight into your students. They're fairly predictable in their tastes, but not 100%!

So, although I'm getting more ideas than giving, do any of you have good ideas for other science projects? Yes, we're making those rockets, but they want us to do two science things, and I'd like them both to be fun and hands on, without a lot of math to explain (although, maybe that's ok because a lot of students tell me they like math)

Thanks!

[some waygug-in]

Another website that might be helpful:

http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/efl-esl-games/efl-esl-speaking-games

click on the name of the game, it opens a page explaining how the game works.

Scroll down to read comments from people who've tried them.

[ippy]

Possibly already mentioned, and maybe even by me, but i used to teach in japan and this website covers all the grammer for the main books used in junior high/middle school. Theyre for the most part the same as korean middle school:

http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/jep.aspx

Id strongly recommend you do jump through hoops for a lesson. Its a really awesome puzzle (you need to edit the worksheet for korea though), but still, youll find it covers a full lesson easy.

Oh and the comparative betting game is a riot with 2nd and third graders.

http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/jhs_allgames.aspx

[laserprinter]

Hey great ideas.
I'm doing high school camps with boys.

I was talking with my coteacher and she suggested I pick a textbook from the English room. The books have listening CDs and questions on a topic or a reading passage with questions to discuss.

I have a double period with my classes each day so I think I will incorporate the reading passage and discussion for the first hour and then activities in the second hour.

My own idea is, once or twice a week, go over the rules of a sport in English with diagrams and positions and everything for the first hour, then go outside and play it in the second hour. I could do every sport available on our field over the course of the 5 weeks or so I have classes.

Bear in mind I suck at some normal sports like basketball but I'll play anyway. I got permission from the gym teacher to get the key and they said I have to make sure nobody steals anything. If anyone gets hurt I have to call the coteacher or the principle.

The sports available on my grounds are: soccer, softball, basketball, tennis and jeokgu (soccer tennis). I might throw in footbag (hacky sack) and maybe badminton with no nets or the tennis net.

[Bucky]

I'm ripping off an idea from someone on YouTube who did it with his students in Suwon.

Basically, it's a week-long project where the students are given a movie scene, script and camera, and they have to recreate the scene as accurately as possible, including costumes, mannerisms, etc.

The centerpiece is the movie project itself, but it's also mixed in with other lessons, like screen tests (seen in the above link).

I'm doing 3 scenes for my middle schoolers -- Dumb & Dumber ("Our pets' heads are falling off!" and "You sold my dead bird to a blind kid?"), Saved! ("You're performing an exorcism on me?!") and Juno ("Mom, Dad... I'm pregnant"). This is subject to change, as I'm considering replacing one of them with a scene from "50 First Dates" instead.

[Underwaterbob]

Paper snowflakes: http://highhopes.com/snowflakes.html

[ulsanchris]

It will be an olympic year and no one has suggested an olympic theme. I'm going to have my students create a presentation about why Pyeongchang should host the olympics.

[ippy]

This site seems pretty decent. It has worksheets for each activity and builds them up. It also has self evaluation/progress records for the students to keep track. Basically its a fully realised winter camp right there:

http://www.japanuklive.org.uk/english/worksheets/2007/homesworksheet_eng.html

[maingman]

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm#Vocabulary#Vocabulary%20


http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/parts-of-speech.html


http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/


good luck!




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