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[alljokingaside]

Hey,

I keep on hearing about Golden Bell, the game, but have no idea on how it goes. A quick Wiki search (I'm 5 min. til class) revealed that it was once/is a popular game show.

A) Do you find this popular with your students? (Particularly, the high schoolers)
B) If so, could someone direct me to a faq site?
C) And does it require Powerpoint, or could it be made completely into a listening/speaking activity?


Thanks!

[Big Mac]

I think my school did this last year.

The kids who wanted to participate gathered in the gym. Someone stands at the front and reads a bunch of questions. The kids write the answers on a portable white board and hold them up for review. As students get questions wrong they are eliminated until there is only one student left, who becomes the golden bell winner.

Most of what I watched was completely in Korean, so I'm just going on what I saw. I might not be totally clear on the rules.

[kiwiinkorea]

I have done English golden bell at my school.

Basically each student has a whiteboard (or big piece of paper). You ask a question and then count down and all the students hold up their whiteboard with the answer written on it. If they are right they stay in the game but if they are wrong they are out.

Sometimes it is possible for the students who are out to come back in. On the one tv show I saw this involved the teachers having to do stupid things to decide how many students could come back in. In my class we just asked an easyish question and everyone who got it right got back in.

For my lessons the last 5 students left were the winners and got a prize. I used a powerpoint for some of the questions and many of my questions were multi choice (especially for the 3rd grade elementary) but some of the questions involved writing an answer (in either English or Korean). Depending on the listening level of your students you might not need a ppt.

I don't see how it could easily be made into a speaking activity.

[Whitey Otez]

The winner "rings the golden bell." It might still be a TV game show for kids on Friday nights. It can't cost much to produce, so I can't imagine they took it off.

We did a multi-branch provincial golden bell for our best and brightest. For me, it was pretty lame, but the students were pretty happy about it. They got swag for participating.

[Goon-Yang]

Golden bell was a popular game show a few years ago. The show would travel from high school to high school. They started with 100 students and asked them questions that increased with difficulty. You need to answer 50 questions (which was pretty hard to do) and the winner would get a prize for him/herself and a prize for the school.

If the kids want to play either get small individual whiteboards or sheets of paper. You ask them a question and they write the answer. When times up they have to hold up the answer. Wrong kids are eliminated and the ones with the correct answer go on.

The prize? Flicks to the forehead. (or lack of them for the winner)