I have a class that only has 2 students and the lesson plan is short so I usually have about 20 mins left. They are both 13 but the boy is shy and quiet and the girl is active.
Whats a good game I can play to suit them? Ive played ABC game so far and its good but I cant play that everytime.
Thanks~!
Fun game for 2 students?
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I don't know where you are so it is hard to know what is available to you.
There is a good game of talking about people's facial characteristic - black hair, blue eyes, glasses, long nose and so on called "Who Is It?". You could make your own from magazines if you can't get the game.
Have you checked out Dave's cookbook of ideas?
I used to use a small squishy ball to throw back and forth or in this case around the three of you to practice things like days of the week, months of the year, numbers (you can count by ones, twos, fives, tens, hundreds) or lists of anything.
Review the lesson with picture cards of the words and play matching games, or memory. Do cards come with your lesson plans or flash cards?
Tape sounds that they have to recognize related to your lesson plans - closing the door, car sounds, motorcycle sounds, walking in an empty hall, water running and so on.
If they were younger, I might suggest "Slap". You spread out about 9 to 12 flash card and when you call out the name of one of the flash card, they have to slap it. The person who slaps it first gets to keep it. As they are too big and might slap each others hands so it hurts, you could use fly swatters or chopsticks.
You can put some of the sentences they are learning on little cards, one word to a card and they have to put them in order. Or you can put a whole sentence on a card of a story they have to put in order.
You can make up path games with words they have to learn on the path, they roll the dice and say the words as they move along the path until they reach the end.
I used to make a road game with the main road of the town and the picture of the stores on each side. I just took my camera to the main road and took pictures of each store on both sides for about two blocks. You get these developed in thumb print size and put them on a piece of cardboard and divide the road into small squares. They roll the dice and move along the road. You can add obstacles of course and have them go back 2 spaces when they get to a certain store because they forgot their package or say that they have to wait a turn because there is a red light at the corner. They have to go into each store they land on and buy something in that the store has by saying the name of a product in English. You can add money if you are teaching money and prices to the products. I used to save flyers from the stores to give them ideas of the prices and what products they might have.
You can play memory games with a tray full of items that you want to teach the vocabulary - I tried to keep it on a theme - school items like pens, pencils, erases. You make sure they know the names and then cover over the tray but take one thing out so they can't see it and they have to guess what is missing when you show it to them again.
You can do it with fruit, small squares of colour, different types of material, small toys, and so on.
After they know the names well, you can have them list what is on the tray so they get the spelling. Just show them the tray for 10 seconds and cover it and then they write the list. You can have them talk about it together or make it a competition.
There is a good game of talking about people's facial characteristic - black hair, blue eyes, glasses, long nose and so on called "Who Is It?". You could make your own from magazines if you can't get the game.
Have you checked out Dave's cookbook of ideas?
I used to use a small squishy ball to throw back and forth or in this case around the three of you to practice things like days of the week, months of the year, numbers (you can count by ones, twos, fives, tens, hundreds) or lists of anything.
Review the lesson with picture cards of the words and play matching games, or memory. Do cards come with your lesson plans or flash cards?
Tape sounds that they have to recognize related to your lesson plans - closing the door, car sounds, motorcycle sounds, walking in an empty hall, water running and so on.
If they were younger, I might suggest "Slap". You spread out about 9 to 12 flash card and when you call out the name of one of the flash card, they have to slap it. The person who slaps it first gets to keep it. As they are too big and might slap each others hands so it hurts, you could use fly swatters or chopsticks.
You can put some of the sentences they are learning on little cards, one word to a card and they have to put them in order. Or you can put a whole sentence on a card of a story they have to put in order.
You can make up path games with words they have to learn on the path, they roll the dice and say the words as they move along the path until they reach the end.
I used to make a road game with the main road of the town and the picture of the stores on each side. I just took my camera to the main road and took pictures of each store on both sides for about two blocks. You get these developed in thumb print size and put them on a piece of cardboard and divide the road into small squares. They roll the dice and move along the road. You can add obstacles of course and have them go back 2 spaces when they get to a certain store because they forgot their package or say that they have to wait a turn because there is a red light at the corner. They have to go into each store they land on and buy something in that the store has by saying the name of a product in English. You can add money if you are teaching money and prices to the products. I used to save flyers from the stores to give them ideas of the prices and what products they might have.
You can play memory games with a tray full of items that you want to teach the vocabulary - I tried to keep it on a theme - school items like pens, pencils, erases. You make sure they know the names and then cover over the tray but take one thing out so they can't see it and they have to guess what is missing when you show it to them again.
You can do it with fruit, small squares of colour, different types of material, small toys, and so on.
After they know the names well, you can have them list what is on the tray so they get the spelling. Just show them the tray for 10 seconds and cover it and then they write the list. You can have them talk about it together or make it a competition.
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Hello,
I've had situations like you are talking about before. I was teaching a junior high ESL class that had only two students. One was a boy from China and the other was a girl from Mexico. Let's just say they were not overly excited about engaging each other.
I would do games like hangman and pictionary to get them to interact and work with the vocabulary we were covering. Since they were both so reluctant to speak, I did have to be right there with them to keep things moving. You can even do a game of concentration and have them compete. Even if your teenage students don't act like they are having fun, I would bet that they prefer the "games" to worksheets! Good luck
Andrew Lawton
http://drewseslfluencylessons.com
I've had situations like you are talking about before. I was teaching a junior high ESL class that had only two students. One was a boy from China and the other was a girl from Mexico. Let's just say they were not overly excited about engaging each other.
I would do games like hangman and pictionary to get them to interact and work with the vocabulary we were covering. Since they were both so reluctant to speak, I did have to be right there with them to keep things moving. You can even do a game of concentration and have them compete. Even if your teenage students don't act like they are having fun, I would bet that they prefer the "games" to worksheets! Good luck
Andrew Lawton
http://drewseslfluencylessons.com
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Re: Only 2 students
First of all, what a luxurious problem to have! Secondly, I have a class with only 12 students and we are able to have a more intimate lesson with fewer students, so it's nice. Again as another poster said, I don't know what you have access to, but it's nice to sit at a computer or television and observe a video or movie to interpret or discuss in the L2. Also, you can use the native language to ask questions, but it's great practice for the second language. Good luck!