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I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

My Middle School originally told me that I would have no class May 1st because midterms were starting may 2nd. Midterms have given me the opportunit to get all my classes to the same point in lessons so I really don't want to do the next lesson with my classes on Monday and then with the other classes after midterms. I don't want the Monday classes to get ahead a week. I already played review jeopardy with them this past Monday because I thought that I wouldn't see them again until after midterms. Got any good ideas?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

A pop song and a trivia game should work. Showing them photos from home is always a good way to kill time while keeping everyone's attention.

Yo!Chingo · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul Korea

My kids are absolutely wild about BINGO. Whatever subject or subjects you're teaching use the vocabulary words and create bingo. Bring candy and just have a blast!
Check out this website for the gameboards and calling cards: www.dltk-kids.com You can do all kinds of stuff with this site BTW. If you don't want to spend the time printing out the cards however play HANGMAN. Gets them up and happy everytime.

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Jeonnam Jinx · Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Location: Jeonnam

Yo!chingo,

That site for the bingo game is the best one I've seen. Thanks so much for the link.

You rock!

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

You can play the "connect the word" game.

housE-ElephanT-TiE-E....

Make it more fun by dividing the class into several groups. One person (a different one each time) is the "speaker". The rest of his/her teammates can help, but the speaker MUST say the word. Each letter equals 1 point. You can give candy to the team with the highest score. Decide beforehand if you're going to let them use their books/dictionaries.

seoulsista · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

I take any topic that we are working on that day and I write a big grid on the board and number each box. I break the kids up into teams or individually and give them each a symbol (star, question mark, smiley face etc.) and ask them a question on the topic.

Example:
Me: I walk to school. Change to the "now" tense.
Student: I am walking to school.

Then I draw their symbol in the box they choose. The first student or team to get four in a row in any direction win. Of course another student can block them. This is where they have fun.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

There is a game called Monster Bingo on the activities page here at Dave's. It works like gangbusters with high school kids. The monster part refers to being able to take points away from another team.

I use parts of speech--verbs in different tenses, adjectives, whatever...to fill in a grid of 25 squares. Teams have to make sentences to win the square. I vary the required sentence length depending on the level of the class. I hide 5 monsters in the grid: each monster is able to take a different number of points away from another team: one monster can take 2 points, another 3, 4, 5 and all points.

It would also work with trivia questions.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

My altered version of boggle. Draw up a 4 square by 4 square grid and put random letters in it (sometimes I'll put in hidden words like my name, or english)... they have to make words using just the letters in the grid. Give them between 3 to 5 minutes. The champion is the one with the most words. I usually play it in teams and can get 3 rounds in during a 45 minute class.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

My middle schoolers absolutely love writing "one line stories". Basically I start off writing one sentence on a piece of paper, and it gets passed around to each student, and they add a sentence to the story. Usually it ends up being about one of the teachers being "in love" with another, but it's middle schoolers, and it's in English so I go with it. Usually it's quite funny, and they all whip out their dictionary's to get the sentence they want to write exactly how they want it. It passes the time well and the students love hearing the end result of their story.
They've never paid so much attention.
Give it a shot!
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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I like giving them a drawing assignment. Draw a food you don't like, but make it funny: cat sausage, bundaegi ice cream. Take two animals and make them one animal: a bird + a snake. Give your animal a name "snird". What does it eat?

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006