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What are your students' favorite games?
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:09 am    Post subject: Re: ... Reply with quote

The Chewbacca Defense wrote:
Another good one that you could try is this.....

The teacher-friendly word search.

I like to go to: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/WordSearchSetupForm.html

I make a word search related to whatever topic I am teaching.

I break the class up into teams of 2-3 students (or more if you have larger classes obviously!).

I get them to nominate a team name.

I give every student a copy of the same word search.
I write the team names up on the white board.

When the game starts, the students must first find a word on their paper, then run to the whiteboard and write the word correctly under their team name.

I give a running commentary as this is going on, calling out what team has what number of points. The winning team must have all the words found and EVERY paper must have the same set of answers in the group.

This exercise helps with spelling and develops team work as well as being fun.

I have used this exercise with both advance kindergarten classes and more recently, my university classes. These guys love it.

The more excited I get in the calling of results, the more the students respond. Hope this helps Very Happy


I use the same site. If it's a smaller one you can add the kids' names, which they really like
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redd



Joined: 08 Nov 2004

PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been playing I-spy lately. I started out with colours (I spy something blue) but they quickly gave up saying the word in order to be the first one right and would just grunt and point. I've changed it to "I spy something that starts with S" which forces them the say the word. Sometimes the things they guess are even better than your original word and give you ideas for next time.

Another no planning game is the memory game. Say a word and the next says yours and his own. I usually give two categories to choose from.

I made "go fish" cards out of the flashcard pics at the back of the book. They have the picture and the word at the bottom. Made 4 copies of each one to make the deck. They have to say "do you have..." and although they're tailored for the levels, they usually find a new word in there. Our flashcard for "handsome" is an old cartoon pic of Brad Pitt circa "Meet Joe Black". Laughed out loud when I saw it and the kids get a kick out of it too.

None of these are original, but they're working.
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hari seldon



Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon

PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I frequently use Jeopardy. Here's the grid:
http://www.lingolex.com/jeopardy.htm
A few flash cards and a picture dictionary would be helpful, but I basically make up all the categories and questions in my head on the fly. The kids love it.
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chest rockwell



Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Sanbon

PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just wanna say excellent thread

that is all
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2005 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with Chest. Thanks for the ideas, everyone. I've got plenty of stuff to keep my students occupied for quire some time, I think.
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stumptown



Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea

PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2005 4:05 am    Post subject: Re: What are your students' favorite games? Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Qinella wrote:

- Slowly exposing a flash card from behind some type of barrier. Whoever calls it correctly first gets a point.


I do that too with my 8 year olds. But I then hum the instrumental piece "Tequila" while I slowly reveal the cards. The kids seem to love the sound track addition.


Nice. I usually try to incite some subversion and hum the opening of Black Sabbaths 'War Pigs'. I've also taught color chants using one of The Stooges' tunes, but at the moment I can't remember the song because all I can think of is P-I-N-K clap clap B-L-U-E clap clap.
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