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[Xaiko]

Ive got a few classes that are an hour long and not too much teaching material. I know that its up to the teacher to add on but im a beginner and clueless.

I grew up shy and was a turtle hermit during my whole childhood. I dont have any experience playing with kids.

I suppose im Timid. Im not too shy anymore now but I have absolutely no idea how to play or joke with kids. What can I do or talk about?
I have tried stuff such as what did you eat this morning? Hows your day? What do you like to do? Lots of students dont even know how to answer so that doesnt work.

Most students english level is phonics/very low and some others can say hello teacher I am happy. I dont want to be too repetitive of the lesson and bore them.

What can I do to kill more time that has some learning in it? I dont want my korean teacher to get on my case for not teaching the material.

I want to teach a bit than talk or play/joke around. But how? T___T

Oh and I tried posting this in the teachers section but everytime I go there it logs me off or says unknown account stuff. Guess I cant post there?

[Xuanzang]

Visit ddeubel`s games repository on EFLclassroom. A good game of BAAM always gets the kids worked up.

[ddeubel]

I can imagine how you feel. Find something that works for them, which offers lots of variation and which they can control.

I'd try Zip Zap I adapted this from a grade 4 class I was teaching years ago - changed it for language teaching.

Kids will play it forever and control themselves. Lower levels, just use letters, verbs - noun.... Really works.

Xuangzang - thanks for the kind mention.

Cheers,

DD
http:eflclassroom.ning.com

[ontheway]

[thoreau]

You can start class with a game to kill time at the start. I use hangman to introduce the day's topic.

Last week I walked into class, drew up the hangman game using the word 'opposite.' Students raised their hands to guess a letter. Whoever got the word got a piece of candy. There is a few minutes killed.

Elaborate on each concept during class by giving an extra example. There is another few minutes by the end of class.

After the lesson is finished use some game to reinforce the topic. For this week's lesson on comparing I printed out some cards that had animals on them. Each card had the animals stats like height, weight, age, etc. The students, working in pairs, then played a game of match. If the student turned over 2 matching cards they got to keep the cards. If the cards didn't match they had to make a compare statement. 'The owl is older than the ant.'

Finally, I keep a bunch of comics on hand. I visit gocomics.com daily and check out the single panel comics. When I find a comic suitable for the classroom I save it and edit out the dialog. For example:

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater

If I have 10 minutes left at the end of class I keep the students in pairs. One student looks and describes the comic while the other one draws. When they are finished drawing they must work together to come up with the caption. I then go around the room making a big deal of each one by showing it to the class.

In short, think of each class as a collection of modules. Introduction, lesson, reinforcement, conclusion. You only have to expand each module by a few minutes to make each class longer.

[Kaypea]

I like the idea of introducing the topic with hangman, and the card-matching game at the end. I almost wish I worked in a kiddie hagwon again, you really can do a lot of fun little things

(I don't miss kindergarten, but young elementary kids are great fun... even if you didn't really like them when YOU were a young elementary kid)

I find a great easy amusement is Barry Fun English. As long as you have a computer with a big projection screen, the kids really get into playing Wheel of Fortune, or the dice game.

I don't understand the scoring procedure for the dice game

I'm hoping that one day the kids will be fluent enough in English to explain it to me!

[Fishead soup]

BLOCKBUSTERS- Draw a 4 by 4 grid on the board. Put ramdom alphabet letters on the board. Divide the class into two teams. Invite students to choose Letter ask questions. The answer begins with the first letter in the box.Once a team has answered a question correctly. They get the square.
First team to get a bingo wins.

Concentration- Can be played with irregular verbs. Questions and answers
Low tech- Prepare 16 cardboard squares. On one side write number on the other side write either one irregular verb. Create 8 pairs. Tape them to the board. Have students randomly call out numbers. When they call out a correct match they claim the two squares. First team to get a bingo wins.
Can also be played as a powerpoint game.

[Illysook]

I would play a simple "point to your friend game" as a warm up, or to reinforce vocabulary, or just have fun.

Example:

Teacher: "Hi, my name is ____, what is your name?" (points to student)

Student: "My name is ___, what is your name?" (points to another student.)

For beginning students, I could sometimes get another teacher to demonstrate with me, so that the kids could get the hang of it, once they catch on, they really enjoy it. It was really fun when I handed out occupational flashcards and they could say "I'm a rock star", or "I'm an astronaut, what are you?" Be sure to pick out some unusual occupations that won't be embarrassing for your pre-teens, and animal flashcards are also fun with this. Just make sure that the fat kid doesn't get the elephant.

[thunderbird]

get the kids to teach u some of there games, it can be fun and a great time waster. but yeah if anyones got more ideas for good tiem wasters i can use all i can get.