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Seoul Teacher · Joined: 14 May 2003

I have some very advanced students.. and while I've been doing hardcore politics and newspaper articles.. i'd like to lighten it up a little.. and do something different..

Anyone know any great games or other things I can do with advanced adults?? games or contests would be fun just so they enjoy themselves as well..

Any ideas?

mokpochica · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

I think you should check out the idea cookbook on this site, or post in the Teacher forums, because I've gotten a lot of great ideas there.
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/index.html
http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dp/

One game that works well with all levels is Jeopardy. You can use it as a review or whatever.Some other good speaking games are 'Guess who?' and '20 Questions'.

I also like Penny Ur's books, Discussions That Work and 5 Minute Activities for ideas. I'm sure there are a lot of great books out there for your students, but I'll leave other teachers to post them since my kids are lower level than yours.

Circus Monkey · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: In my coconut tree

Nothing in the stickies at all? Just asking since I haven't looked there for a while myself.

CM

kimcheeking · Guest

ratslash · Joined: 08 May 2003

is jeopardy an american tv show?

never seen it on the measly five channels we have back in england. so, begs the question, what is jeopardy?

thanks

dutchman · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: My backyard

I just bought a game off the internet that works quite well with a variety of levels. It's nothing fancy, just your basic question and answer game. You could probably make it yourself but for $30, why bother?

It's called Word Up. Check it out.

http://www.teflgames.com/samplesp.html

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Scrabble is great! Not a lot of discussion (unless they play as teams), but great for vocab building.

Check out some bookstores in Seoul (Kyobo, Kim & Johnson) for some great discussion books.

Or have your CLASS come up with some things that they want to discuss. I had great succes with plastic surgery (an ajuma class!), pop songs (they bring the songs and lyrics), or in a mixed class, the difficulties faced by women (and men!) in Korea.

You don't have to play games every day of course, but once or twice a week really adds some energy to your class.

marcy · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Location: Seoul

What is jeopardy...

Jeopardy is a trivia game that consists of a set of categories. In each categorie there are several questions, each question has a different dollar amount payoff. A contestant chooses a categorie and the dollar amount, (eg. "great authors for $100.00,")...then s/he is read an answer, ("this popular writer recently became the first to publish a novel using an online format"), to which s/he must provide the question, in question form, ("who is Stephen King?" - the 'who is' part is necessary). If the contestant is correct, the payoff is earned, if incorrecct, the payoff is deducted from his/her current score, though a score never goes below zero.

What a great idea for a game, I'm so sick of hangman!

kimcheeking · Guest

mokpochica · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

There may be an explanation on how to play jeopardy in the idea cookbook. I could go into how I do it here, but it would take a while and I'm lazy. I think one of the most important things about the game is 'final jeopardy' though where students can win lots of points, or make a wager, because then it can really be anyone's game right up until the end.

I've also found lots of good teaching ideas at this site:
http://www.esltalk.com/forums/