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I have a bit of a problem...

I have to do a bit of a camp next week but as you know they want to be all about excitement and really nothing about learning...

Anyway...I need some learning games for grammar and listening for middle school 1 and 2 students...

The breakdown goes like this:
Listening 1 hour
Grammar 1 hour
Quiz/games 1 hour..

The problem is it will be at a middle school....9am till noon and it is the first week of the school holidays so you just know this will be last place most of the kids will want to be...

I need to put on a good show so any suggestions would be appreciated...

[blunder1983]

For listening I've done the following for the last two weeks

Music

0-15mins learn a song, perhaps go over some vocab
15-30mins listen to other genres rock, classical, rnb, jazz etc etc. I just had then brainstorming words which describe each one, but you could pick songs which have the title in the chorus and tell them to listen out to the words and guess the title
30-45mins interview first with a volunteer u and they go through the different types is it good is it bad and why, THEN i gave that person the cd i'd burnt of the music. The rest of the kids then dissolve in to a frenzy (this is a cd which cost me 300won....) and they all were trying their hardest in the hope i'd notice and give them a similar prize.

Not hugely listening orientated but fun!

Movies

Go over different types of movie, give candy to the first to volunteer a genre, again this really gets them motivated.

Then we watched trailers www.apple.com/trailers I showed them Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Watch the trailers you pick and choose questions related to what is going on in the films. E.g what contest is harry entering in the film.

Let them listen 2/3 times as it is pretty hard.

Then finish with either movie reviews (potential follow on for a grammar lesson?) or just simple I would choose to see Harry Potter instead of Charlie and ......BECAUSE......)

Hope this helps.

First one requires a cd player and a burner
Second one requires a computer with internet so is a bit more tricky. But they got really excited about the trailers.

[just because]

That sounds like a great idea but I don't know if it would go over too well.....

I think they are after a more traditional blackboard type thing

[Ya-ta Boy]

[deessell]

Get yourself a copy of Singing Grammar, Mark Hancock. Cambridge University Press. Chock a block full of catchy songs, grammar and supplementary exercises and games. My students are mad for it. I even find myself singing along in class and even at home.

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