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[blunder1983]

Hey guys came across a good idea online, and modified it a bit, doing it for my class next week.

English Baseball

Two teams (ideally around 5 in a team)

Standard baseball rules apply, batters last till 3 outs and then swap over.

The "pitcher" reads a word out depending on the grade this can vary from apple to antidisestablishmentarianism (tho if they get that I don't think they need a ESL teacher )

The batter must then spell the word.

The fielders (sorry I'm from England and new to baseball, are they called fielders?) then must decide (as a group) if the spelling is correct or not.

If it is incorrect, and they say it is incorrect then the batter is out
If it is incorrect, and they say it is correct then the batter goes to first (they fumbled an easy catch)
If it is correct, and they say it is correct then the batter goes to first
(the ball was too good to catch)
If it is correct, and they say it is incorrect then the batter goes to first and any other players can run an additional base (i.e. 3 to 4) [or do u think they should go to second and they all move on a correct word?]
Extra long/difficult words (like whale for a middle schooler) is a "home run word" a correct answer grants them a home run.


I'm thinking after 3/4 rounds the kids get to choose the words themselves but this might cause problems, as a. they arent that creative b. they'll either have easy words they can recall from class or cheat and use a dictionary making it stupidly hard.

I like this idea, will post feedback when I use it next week. One thing I'd like to do is to have the "batters" more active when they are in the dugout, but drawing a blank on that part.

This can be done using loads of things, tenses, question answers, adjectives (describe summer, describe a ball), verbs, etc. etc.

With a decent sized room this can be actually made into a baseball diamond and will engage kinsthetic learners (who dont get much love over here!)

Enjoy.

Oh and neone able to point me to a decent minimal pairs website, resource? Ideally with the kickass battleship game.

[Qinella]

This is a sweet idea. Only thing I don't understand is the part about the batter getting the word correct but the fielders calling it incorrect. You say all people on base get to move, but in baseball, all players automatically move when the person at bat runs to first.

Just curious - they don't have baseball in England?

I was thinking about what to do if there is an uneven number of students in the class. Perhaps the odd person out could be the umpire, and gets to declare correct or incorrect. That would be cool.

You're just full of good ideas, aren't you? I'm still working with an idea that spawned from your CYOA thread. I'll probably make an interactive fantasy/fighting based game where the class controls a character and he has health and other stats.

Cheers,
Q~

[blunder1983]

Well I showed it to my co-teacher.

His words "No, girls don't like baseball"
Me "well its still a fun game"
Him "No girls dont like baseball"

SIGH One of these days i'll throw in the towel for fun lessons....

[some waygug-in]

Hmmmm.

Students don't like English either........ so what?

Sounds like your co-teacher doesn't like anything that might involve "fun".

There's always uno.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Once again, just call it something else, like English Needlepoint. Each team has three needles, etc. Let the winners slap the losers' hands and they'll probably like it so much they'll be playing it after class in their free time.