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[I_Am_Wrong]

The students have mid-terms coming up so next week I'm gonna take it pretty easy on them. I'm thinking that, for part of my lesson, we will play a jeopardy style quiz game. I even found a model on the internet with sounds and animation that allows me to input my own questions. I'm having a problem trying to figure out a way to organize the classes so that all the students have a chance. Anyone got any good ideas? This is public school so we're talking between 36-42 students per class.

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Not that I am against incorporating as many students as possible into most activities and exercises, but isn't that against the nature of Jeopardy? Won't it ruin the fun if you try to give everybody a shot when the game is basically competitive in nature?

I foresee a bunch of frustrated and bored more fluent kids getting pissed that they can't answer and a bunch of weaker kids freezing up on the spot as they are shy with their English anyway and that d1ck Jae-Hwan is threatening them with schoolyard consequences if they can't figure out that Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon fast.

I play Jeopoardy or variations more than anything else, but use it as a time for the stronger kids to let go and the weaker kids to step back. However, I always make a point to ask for translations of difficult words, model new phrases and vocabulary and get a weaker kid to use them somehow before moving on to the next question.

Happy teaching...

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[Yu_Bum_suk]

I prefer to use a very simple version of Jeopardy where I just have six categories of questions worth 100-500 points based on difficulty. Then I divide the class into three teams and they just take turns - this prevents an out-of-control free-for-all. Instead of deducting points for a wrong answer I sometimes let a team choose the next team's question if they get theirs right, and have one category like 'I love grammar'.

To answer I try to get make the team to respond in a sentence. 'What is the tallest animal?' ... 'the giraffe is the tallest animal ... now everyone together, the giraffe _____________________'. If you're doing this in a class that has a co-teacher you may have trouble getting him / her to stfu and let the students try to answer the questions themselves. I don't know how some of these morons think that interupting students giving a wrong answer but speaking English is going to help them improve their English speaking abilities.

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[crazylemongirl]

Here's what I do...

I leave the kids in their rows and the rows are the team. Each student gets a turn to answer on behalf of their team and only they can answer. However anyone on the team can help them.

That way everyone gets a turn. The bright kids have a reason to help out the slower ones. I've had kids feeding the answer to another student, but that's ok as long as they are using english I don't care.

Also if things are getting lopsided I insert my own 'daily doubles' and give a team who is really behind an easy question to answer... or a team that is too far ahead a really hard question to answer.

Also you don't need anything whiz bang. I just laminate some sheets with the categories which I stick up with magnets on the board. I then draw up a grid on the board. I then have my own call sheet.

I also have a 'random' catergory. Where i put things in like 'sing a song in english' ... 'count backwards from 20.' ... make me a dance... How old is CLG teacher? (answer: it's a secret) they love that one because one team always tries to guess when everyone knows it's a secret... tell me five yellow/orange/pink things... tell me two homophone sets... when is CLG teacher's birhday (always a candy queston). These are heaps of fun.

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[the_beaver]

I laid-out an oversized jeopardy board (about 1.5 X 1.5 meters with pockets to hold the questions) that I put up at the front of the class. I also have circuits with 4 buttons (which I can join with another to make 8, although I haven't done that yet) and I give each team a button -- no arguments because the light only comes on for the first response.

In a large class I have mini-jeopardy boards and I break the class into groups and give each group a circuit, a board, and question sheet and I assign one person to be the host.

Probably my favorite class activity.

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