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[I_Am_Wrong]

Hey,
I have the last lesson of a mixed level class tomorrow that ranges from beginner to fluent and I need a 10-15 minute game that will be fun for everyone to participate in. Got any good ones? If I don't get any good ideas we'll just play "heads down, thumbs up" but I would prefer something with a little more language in it. Thanks.

[the_beaver]

[d503]

Telephone.
It's fun because most kids can parrot even if they can't enderstand. I also like to let the kids make up the sentences, I am usually pleasantly surprised.

[the_beaver]

Sorry. Kids. I was thinking older.

[lookingtoteach]

I used this game for all of my classes from mid-kindergarten to late elementary. I made flash cards of vocabulary words we had done that month. I then divided the students into two teams and had them stand in a line. One student from each team stood an equal distance from an object (I used a chair, an eraser, or just about anything I could find in the classroom) and when I said "Go!" they would run for the object. The first student to get the object got a chance to tell me the picture on the flashcard was. If s/he got it right, his/her team got a point, if s/he got it wrong then the other team would get it. I ususally gave told them the day before if we were going to play this so they could study their vocabulary. It worked well in telling me who understood the vocabulary and who didn't.

[I_Am_Wrong]

What's telephone pray tell?

[some waygug-in]

Typhoon has always been a hit in my kids classes. It takes a bit of prep as you have to prepare a bunch of questions at levels that will be appropriate for your students. If you haven't seen the class, my guess is to make the questions easy.

You can find this in the idea cookbook/games section.

Here's a short description:

Before class, draw a small grid on a card or piece of paper.

5 X 5 or 10 X 10 or whatever size you want.

In some of the squares mark a "t" (typhoon)
In the remaining squares mark random numbers from 1 - 10.

Then you have to have questions ready for each point value;
1 point questions - very easy.
5 point questions - a bit harder.
10 point questions - harder still, but not too hard.

For the easy level questions I use things like, "What color is a banana?"
or , "What is your name?"

Mid level - spell Octopus or alligator.

Higher level - How many days in one week?
- How many students in this class?
- How many legs do 2 chickens and a zebra have?

You need about 5 questions at each point level (depending on how big your grid is)

When class starts, you write "Typhoon" on the top of the board.
Draw a cloud with lightning coming out of it around the word.

Below the cloud draw an empty grid on the board (same size as the one on your card)
Mark the top of the grid with numbers and the side with letters or visa versa.

Divide the class into 2 teams (it is possible with more teams, but confusing)

Rock- scissors-paper to see who goes first.

The first team must choose a square.
Whatever square they choose, mark that point value in the square and ask them the appropriate question.

The teams take turns. If they can answer the question correctly, they get the points from the square they chose. If they can't answer, the other team gets to try. If nobody can get it, give hints etc.
If still nobody gets it, the square becomes invalid and you move on.

If a team chooses a square that has a "t", yell out "Typhoon!" and that team loses all their points. I like to draw a lightning coming from the cloud over to their score and then "fry it" . The kids get into this as they never know who will chose the next typhoon.

important: Never show them your card!


This takes a bit of work and you will probably have to show them how it works before you play. Give them a "practice question" as an example.
The kids always seem to love this game, but the hard part is coming up with questions that a suitable for your class.

Hope this helps

[d503]

sorry Telephone is a secret game

You start with one kid and tell them a sentence, sentence difficulty depends on kids--in the US they used to be tongue twisters, here they are things like Billy has 18 giraffes. You start with one kid and they whisper it to the next until you reach the last kid who shouts it out. If its right hurrah if its wrong its damn funny usually.

[I_Am_Wrong]

oh ok....I know what game you're talking about. I think my elementary school teachers called it "pass the message." Actually I ended up using a pretty cool game that worked itself into a fun conversation exercise that took up most of the class:

A)Each student writes the answer to 6 questions on a secret piece of paper
1)Name a fruit
2)What's your favourite flavour of ice cream
3)pick any number between 1 and 200
4)Do you like soccer?
5)How many pens and pencils do you have?
6)What's the first thing you do when you wake up?

B)
1 becomes "their first name"
2 becomes "their last name"
3 becomes "their age"
4 becomes "Are you married?"
5 becomes "How many children do you have?"
6 becomes "their job"


--They really enjoyed it.

[jay-shi]

[jajdude]

I get a good bit of mileage from "Let's Go" flashcards, the small ones. I just give definitions and have them guess what is on the card. Or if they can speak, they can try it. Or you could say or write defintions and have them say or write answers. Also could try the old 20 questions game. Use a bunch of categories like places around town, clothes, jobs, food, etc..
Crosswords are Ok sometimes too. If they groan about them you could make it a kind of listening/reading activity. "Five across says..." and add more hints if needed.

[tomato]

Hello, I Am Wrong!

I hope this helps you:

http://eslideas.hypermart.net/games.html

[waggo]

[ajuma]

"Connect-the-word" game.

Students are in 2, 3 or however many teams are appropriate for your class.

Choose a random word.

Say you choose "house". Team 1 must come up with the longest/shortest word beginning with the last letter of the previous word.

Example: house-elevator-refridgerator-recreation-nightengale-...

Or: house-egg-go-on-no-of

1 point for each letter....highest/lowest total wins.

[mindmetoo]

Classroom Olympics. This was kind of fun. First I started with some photos of strange sports, or sports a Korean child might find strange: snowmobiling, ringette, canoe polo, camel racing, etc. Then I gave them a random list of the actual names and got them to figure out what the sports were called. "This is ringette." "Yes, why?" "She has a ring." (see footnote 1)

After that I handed out paper and got them to invent and draw their own sport. All the boys created sports that involved fire and spikes. The girls all seemed to create sports that required you to walk in a fancy way in uncomfortable shoes. I'm not making this up.

I got them to then explain the sports.

Okay now the fun part. I put a bunch of classroom objects and other random crap on the desk like an eraser, a ball of scrunched up paper, some Dixie cups, a Badtz Maru fan, a ball, chalk, a marker. I invited one student up and told him to use one or more items on the desk to invent a sport and then asked him to explain the rules to the class. Then it was girls vs the boys. One girl champion vs one boy champion. Determine the winner. Pick a girl now and get her to invent her own sport with the objects.

They did manage to come up with some cute enough games, although one boy basically recreated his own three card monty game.

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footnote 2 Oh I wish dialogs actually transpire like I write. Here would be a better approximation

- What sport is this, Shelly?

- Teacher teacher play game.

- In a bit. What sport?

- Teacher teacher give sticker.

- If you're good. What sport?

- Hard teacher! Bad teacher! Sport. Ringu.

- Ringette. Say 'the sport is ringette'.

- Sport is the ringette.

- Close enough. Why do you think it is ringette?

- Ring. Teacher teacher take off the glasses.

- Why do you think it is ringette?

- Ring.

- Full sentence, please.

- Is ring.

- You're missing some words.

- The is ring.

- There is a ring. Da ra he! There is a ring.

- There is a ring.

- Good. Where?

- Ring picture.

- Full sentence.

- Ring picture there is. Give sticker.

- Say 'There is a ring in the picture.'

- Yes I know.