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[matthews_world]

Here's what I got so far for 'competition' day at my summer camp. Feel free to use them.


Balloon Walk/Hop: Place balloon between legs. Have students walk to the other side of the room, touching the wall, and going back.

Lifesaver Pass: Find Lifesaver-type candies at the supermarket along with toothpicks. Participants pass the candy from each toothpick to another.

Orange or Boiled Egg Walk: Take plastic spoons and put a tangerine or boiled egg on the end. Students put the spoons in their mouth and must balance the object while walking to the other side of the room and return.

Rock/Paper/Scissors Tourney:

3-Legged Race:


If you guys have any more suggestions, please add them here.

[ddeubel]

Play Octopus! I used to teach some phys. ed and when I was hung over (or even not) , this game just would run itself.

Two in the middle. Students just run back and forth while the octopi try and tag others. If tagged, you sit down where tagged and try to touch others too. Last two surviving the runs from end to end, get to be in the middle....

But I'd also try some English stuff

DD
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[tob55]

Use a scavenger hunt that incorporates a worksheet requiring the teams to collect information about their members using English information. I have done this at our school using the Google Map image of our school and using that as the treasure map. We had three routes for each of the three teams we put together, and each team had 10 clues in English they had to navigate in oder to find the requirements for the worksheet. It takes about an hour if it is done right, and you can expand the teams to as many as you want, but this means you have to create additional clues and worksheets.

It is a fun activity and it gets even the lowest level speakers involved with relatively little effort on your part.

[meangradin]

tob55, love the scavenger hunt idea; could easily be used in a variety of ways

[Bibbitybop]

Hiding different nouns, verbs, articles, adjectives, conjunctions, etc. and making kids find them in a scavenger hunt is good. The team that creates the most correct sentences with their words wins.


I've also played "beer me." Whenever I say "beer me," each team has to find me a cold beer. This is challenging as they often won't be sold the beers and have to steal them. The team that brings me a cold beer first wins, but there are other factors: Certain beers are not allowed (Cass Lemon is a new one on the list), if the beer is in a bottle they have to open it for me and beers that explode upon opening do not count, so they have to run carefully.

[matthews_world]

I'm having a hard time finding scavenger hunt questions. What do you guys use?

Also, any team relay type games are still appreciated.

[BS.Dos.]

I've just been thinking of a few games for my BHS myself although most are purely fun rather than English driven. Here's what I've come up with so far:

1. Balloon race ~ In teams, students must race to a point and back points with an inflated (water?) balloon between their heads. When they get back, without touching the balloon with their hands, they must try and switch the balloon to another team member.

2. Wheel-barrow race ~ Teams race in pairs and then relay with a different partners until all team members have finished.

3. Body-lift race ~ In teams of 5, four of the team carry the fifth member on their shoulders before then changing and repeating

4. Body-lift (individual teams) ~ As above but this time each team must negotiate an obstacle course with the one being carried giving directions to the others who are blind-folded.

5. Football vocabulary game ~ each team forms a circle and must pass a football to each other. When they kick the ball the must shout out a vocabulary item in English (food, vegetables, fruit, countries, animals, musical instruments, colours etc). 1 point for each vocabulary item named. Lose 1 point for repeats. Each team has 2-minutes each.

6. Five Pin Soccer ~ Place teams at opposite ends of a gym or field. Place five 2-liter plastic soda bottles in the center of the field. A little gravel in the bottle helps it to stand up and creates more noise and excitement when hit. At the start signal, players kick balls from behind their line trying to knock down a pin. The player who knocks down a pin must run out and set the pin back up. Score 1 point for each pin knocked down. First to five wins.

[matthews_world]

[xtchr]

[nobbyken]

Do you have English books for them to read?

When outside is too hot for running about or it's raining, how about trying a hunt for words and phrases in books.
This works OK and keeps them quiet, practising scanning and reading.
You could hide about 10 words or phrases and give a little candy when they find one.

Beforehand you need to pick 10 books and pluck a sentence out.
Write the sentence, book and page number down.
With all 10 on a page, you can hide the book title and page by changing the text to white and print out a page for each group of kids.

If you have a big screen, you can show this page on there too. As they find phrases, you can change the text back to a colour so they stop looking for it.

[matthews_world]

What do you all use for scavenger hunt questions? I'm struggling for ideas.

[buster brown]

One of my (university) colleagues does a form of scavenger hunt where the students find letters to spell words, it goes something like this: 1)Put students into small groups with a team name. He uses animals for the team names because it's easier. So, for example, you'll have the Alligators, Dolphins, Cats, and Tigers. 2)Each team gets a set of directions to different locations on campus. It's better if you put the directions in a different order for each group so that they all go in different directions but visit the same locations. 3)At each location there's a page with the all of the different team names/pictures and a letter next to it. 4)The groups follow the directions and collect the letters in order. 5)When they get back to the meeting place, they should have the letters to correctly spell the word.

I hope that's fairly clear...I've seen it done and it works well. The only difficult part of this is getting it organized.

[lowpo]

[BS.Dos.]

I've bought some of those long balloons from Kyobo and am going to get them making animals out of them.

[matthews_world]

I'm just gonna give them clues and then they use their handphones to take pictures of their answers. Ex, take a picture of something you'd find in the desert: sand (from the sandpit next to the soccer pitch) or a palm tree (we've actually got dwarf palms in front of our school).