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[lowpo]

I have a class tomorrow and I want to teach outside. Does anyone has some cool ideas.

[buster brown]

kids or adults? what kind of space do you have available? give us some constraints to work with.

[lowpo]

[ajuma]

Kickball for girls or mixed, a soccer game if boys.

If you really want to keep it educational, have them bring pen and paper and write down as many words they can about what they see.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Really getting them deep into that English education, I see.

Maybe you can review your soccer class the next time you see them and teach them the word "kick". One or two of them might not know that one. Maybe.

Ha, ha. Do they call you "Mister"?

[patongpanda]

Has anyone got any ideas?

Just for fun I have taken them outside and shown them various English playground games.

On camps I've taken them on walks where I give them an activity sheet to complete as they go.

Another one is a treasure hunt but that takes a lot of preparation.

These were elementary students btw.

[Scott in Incheon]

One game I have used in the past is "minefield". I got it from a camp activity site.

Rope off an area, if you can, and place within the area some pylons or other obstacles. These are the mines. Then place some treasure, bean bags or balls...something to be picked up.

Blindfold one student and have the others tell them where to go. If they hit a mine they are out...object is to get as many of the treasures in a certain time. You can rope off different areas and have different groups playing.

We did up the curriculum for a summer camp last year at my uni and we found that a lot of camp acitvities and trust building group activities can easily be adapted to esl.

[OiGirl]

This is a little bit hard for 25, but....

To practice vocabulary or questions and answers, I use this tag game.

Each student has stuck to their shirt with scotch tape (or on nametags, if I have actually prepared) a picture or a word of a targeted vocabulary item.

Let's say we are studying a unit on weather...

The first "it" (A) says to the teacher (B), "what's the weather like?"

B says, "it's windy!"

A has to tag a kid with "windy." (C)

C asks A, "What's the weather like?"

A says, "It's sunny!"

C has to tag a kid with "sunny."

It's really complicated to explain, but if you can get it started, you'll have a field full of kids working off their excess energy, enjoying the good weather, and speaking English!

For your group, after modeling, you might want to try it with two smaller groups.