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[ajgeddes]

Well, I was just told that later today, I have to play games with my grade 6 students. (Kill me now!) Anyways, anybody know some good games for a group of 40 kids? Any help is appreciated.

[ddeubel]

Do you have a monitor and computer hook up??? I've plenty of quick stuff for that.....

Using powerpoint games which the kids in two teams play. Do the national anthems and all that for whiteboard soccer. Canadian anthem available on karaoke free at www.karafun.com

Do the coin toss etc too. Draw a field on the board and put a magnet in the center. Have a yellow/red card ready. Players don't raise their hands or are noisy, protest - yellow card. two yellow = red card. Sit in a special place + other team gets a penalty kick. Yellow card means the ball moves back, they lose possession.

Ball moves from center to 35 yard line to the area line and then GOAL!!!!
If they answer correctly they move the ball, keep position. Incorrect, change possession and the other team can answer.

Have a student be scorekeeper.

Great powerpoint games at
http://www.graves.k12.ky.us/powerpoints/elementary/ Especially try the Hoops games and math games

Also at http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html for lower level students.

I also have made tons of jeopardy, whowantstobeamillionaire, goldenbell, hollywoodstars, deal no deal powerpoint games which work well too...

have fun.

DD

[some waygug-in]

My boss doesn't want me to play games, except for the younger classes.

He doesn't realize though, that games are about the only way I can get these kids to pay attention. Try teaching anything from the textbook and you might as well be speaking Swahili. I have to disguise my jeopardy game as a worksheet and sneak it in to the upper levels. It's a bit hard to come up with new and interesting questions each week, but it's well worth the effort. The trick is finding questions that are well suited to your students' level. If they are too easy, the game is boring, if they are too hard, the students lose interest and ..... the game is boring.

There are some good ideas in the idea cookbook here on Dave's.

There were some good ideas posted in a couple of threads here not too long ago, sorry I don't remember when.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I have trouble coming up with enough questions, too. Anyone have a good solution?

[tomato]

Hello, Ajgeddes!

My first suggestion is to make bingo games for nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and singular and plural.
It is time-consuming, but that time spent will pay off very generously.
Whether you use Let's Go, Side by Side, or whatever series you use, most of your lesson units will be about one of these topics.
The verb bingo set will be especially useful. You can use that same bingo set for the question format, the negative form, and all of the verb tenses.
Moreover, the cards you make will be useful for flash cards and other activities.

I took Some Waygug-in's last paragraph as a challenge.
I dug through the archives and found many other teachers who asked questions similar to the question that you asked.
Let's pay those teachers a visit:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=59061&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=44734&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=35952&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=11702&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=29397&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=26197&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=15983&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=3307&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=22267&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=9097&highlight=
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=8102&highlight=

[Jeju Rocks]

With 40 kids, I would have them play British Bulldog or have piggy back fights.
Ah those childhood memories.

[ddeubel]

[Hotpants]

40 kids is a lot of students to keep focused during a 'game'. I think sport style games could get a bit hazardous unless you have scope to take them outside.

If your school doesn't have any English board game facilities such as Scrabble, Word Up, Trivial Pursuit... you may want to try and encourage the kids to design some board games of their own. They can even design question cards on a level that's suitable for them. They seem to get more excited if they have input into the production process and can sometimes come up with very creative ideas. You can then reuse the games at a later date.

I would also consider the idea of karaoke/norae. Could be fun to link the kids up into singing teams. You could run a version of the Eurovision Song Contest, and there are endless variations you can do with using songs.

For computer based games, check my link below under the 'games' category.

[ddeubel]

[Peter Jackson]

Ddeubel, good links. Do you know of any powpoint game sites for high school students?

Thanks.

[ddeubel]

[SirFink]

[tomato]

Sir Fink, do you go for deductive logic?
Then how about Jotto?



Ask one of the students to write down a three-letter word, to show that word to all the other students, but keep it secret from you.
(That's a little complicated. I usually have to cheat by giving these directions in Korean.)

Next, write a three-letter word on the board.
The students will tell you how many of the letters in your word are in the secret word, but they will not tell you which letters it has in common.
(Here again, I usually have to take the quick-and-dirty route.)

In the example, the first word which you give the class is FOR.
The class gives you 1 point.
You don't know which letter that point is for, but you are determined to find out.
So you change one letter.

Your next word is FAR.
You gain a point this time.
So you know that the 1 point on the first line was not for the O, so you cross out the O.
However, you still don't know whether you got the first point for the F or the R.
As I said before, though, you are determined to find out.
So you change one of those letters.

Your next word is FAT.
You lose a point.
So it must have been the R and not the F.
So you circle all the R's and cross out all the F's.
While you're at it, cross out the T in FAT.

Now, let's think of some possibilities for the secret word.
BAR, CAR, JAR, MAR, PAR, and WAR all end with the two letters which you have circled.
RAG, RAM, RAN, RAP, RAW, and RAY all begin with those two letters.
That means that the missing letter could be B, C, G, J, M, N, P, W, or Y.
Unless you're efficient, it could take you up to 9 more tries to find the missing letter.
But you want to be efficient.

So you try two of those letters in the word CAB.
You're lucky, because you got 2 points.
That means that one of those letters is the missing letter.
So you change one of the letters to a letter which you have already crossed out.

Your next word is CAT.
You lose a point.
That can only mean that the missing letter is B.
So now you have all three letters.

Yes, I know, it could also be BRA.
The object is to get all three letters.

[Oilers Fan]

Cut up some short jokes or sentences and tape them on a wall (outside the class is better). Have the students form teams of two. One student has to find their assigned taped piece of paper, go read and come back and dictate to the other students. They can't use notes or take pictures with the cel phones or anything silly like that. The student who is writing has to write down everything perfectly (you may have to preteach vocablulary for punctuation). It ends up with all the students running around. You could add to it by having the cut up pieces of paper be part of a jumbled story and after everthing has been correctly dictated, teams have to put the story together.