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khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

I will be doing my summary classes for the next couple weeks and I am hoping to get some ideas from people for good games that involve running, chasing etc... with some english involvement.

Even free form ideas or STEALing ideas would be great.

for eg:
Play "duck duck goose" with the little kids but change "Duck" and "goose" to related parts of speech: Hello/How are you.... or other vocab.
oh yeah. i'm in public school. And these should be for gr.3-5

And I didn't bother going to eslcafe's "ideacook book" because that thing is like Cream of Sh$$ Chocolate soup and I'm not about to wade through that crap looking for pieces of chocolate.

thanks..

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

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Prepare some easy review questions. Organize the kids into teams. Draw some concentric circles as a target on the chalkboard/whiteboard for 5/4/3/2/1 points. Crumple a piece of paper into a ball. Teams take turns, one member throws the "ball" at the target for point value, & they answer if they can.

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

Write things or have pictures on the board, line them up in two groups and have them race to see who can touch the word you say first.

Or you can make a paper ball and have them throw it at the board and whatever it hits, they have to name or read or make a sentence with or say a word beginning with, or whatever level you're at. For example, divide the board into nine spaces, write a letter in each one, then when they throw the ball and hit "a" they have to say apple or ant or alligator.

RobinH · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:16 am Post subject:

I got this one from a collegue at my last uni. Yeah, it's written for uni kids, but you can modify it for the younger ones, I think. I don't know if this is on Dave's already.

FIRE!: groups of 4

Make a conversation game board with as many squares are appropriate. Print "FIRE!" on several squares. Fill half the remaining squares with conversation questions/topics. Fill the other half with goofy commands, such as "spell your name with your butt," "yell 'I love English' out the window," "kiss someone in another group," etc.

Students move their markers (scraps of paper, coins, or whatever) around the board and must answer the question or do the goofy action. When ANYONE in the group lands on a FIRE! square, they must yell FIRE! and EVERYONE in the room must get up and run to another table. There they continue playing the game from wherever the previous players left their markers.

Play until it's not fun anymore!

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Change chairs game.

The kids will love you if you play this game. Make a circle of chairs, one less than the the total number of students (including you).

Extra person stands in the middle & asks "Are you wearing (article of clothing, or a color)?" If it applies, they have to stand up & quickly find a new chair. Person left over asks the next question.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Pictionary can be good sometimes, if you have the vocabulary or short phrases on picture cards it works OK. It helps keep them on track, if I let them go totally on their own......they always go right into Korean stuff.

If you don't have cards, you can use whatever textbook you are using, pick something at random out of the book and one person has to draw while the rest try and guess what it is. It gets them looking through their books a bit too.......which ain't bad.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

A good way to teach some action verbs is to play Simon Says. You can teach: jump, hop, skip, run, walk, stomp, tiptoe etc.

Of course you can add things like 5 paces, 5 steps, one meter, and so on.

"Simon says hop to the door. Simon says STOP!" Something like that. Good fun.

seoulsista · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

Give each student a peice of paper with vocabulary, sentence, or phrase on it or a picture associated with whatever you are studying at that time.

Example using pictures -
Every student has a picture with a sentence or question associated with it. They must go up to another student and say the sentence associated with that picture and the other student must respond with the sentence associated with his/her picture. If the pictures don't match then they switch pictures and move onto other students. If they match then the student who spoke first gets to take the other students picture. The student with the most pictures wins.

All the students should be walking around a small area at the same time. They move quickly so they can get as many pictures as possible. They are also forced to speak no matter what.