Rainboow

3 nice ideas :)

Hello everyone  holidays are coming and my students are really tired and they don �t want to learn English, I told them even not to bring books for the lessons. I can understand them that �s why I have 3 great ideas which work with my students. Here are they: 1) This is well known game, but I changed it a little bit . Students have 2 minutes to fill one column, then we chack, when we check all the letters and words students have to write funny story using these words. My story is: Ben comes from Belgium and he always brings with him his brown boots in which brilliant bugs hide from time to time. The funniest story wins. 2) Scrabble, my example 3) and the last The psychiatrist ;) (that �s my name for this game, you can use different) Every student gets a sheet of paper (white), they cannot write anything. I play music, they listen for 30 seconds and they have to draw sth that somes to their mind, then they exchange the sheets with sb else to listen the music and draw again (up to 6 or 8 times - depends on the group), the pictures cannot be repeated, and one person can have one sheet only once. After everybody finishes i tell the student: "You are a psychiatrist and you see the photo of sb �s dream". And they have to do 2 exercises: 1. CHARACTER (write 3 adjectives of this person �s character): - - - 2. What does the dream men? (they have to interpret it in 2 or 3 sentences). When they finish everyone has to show the picture and read what he/she thinks about the photo, others can agree or not. I hope this exercises will be usefull. Cheers, Monika

10 Jun 2010      

martinasvabova

10 Jun 2010     

magneto

10 Jun 2010     

Mabdel

10 Jun 2010     

ELOJOLIE274

10 Jun 2010     

stexstme

Thx!! I - too - love n�1. I �ll have my students make up their own stories!  Sylvie

10 Jun 2010     

frenchfrog

Yes, we play the first game a lot in France (we call it �baccalaureat �). But I �ve never thought of using all the words in just one sentence. It is a great idea!   We have another game which we call "cadavre exquis" (Exquisite corpse) You can find more about it here. Basically, players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal what they have written, and pass it to the next player. At the end, you unfold the paper and read the sentence (sometimes some modifications are necessary). You can decide that player 1 will write about when?, player 2 about who?, player 3 about the action (you can impose a tense), etc ... Then you can end up with sentences like: "Yesterday a blue hen was singing in my bathroom..."

10 Jun 2010     

stefania.r

10 Jun 2010     

stexstme

Do you know the Picnic game ? Tell your students you are going to take them on a picnic, & they must tell you what they �re going to bring. If the student brings something starting with the same letter as his.her name, he can come:  ( Don �t tell them of course!)ie = Cyril : � I �m going to bring chocolate! � Ok! You can come! Nicholas : � I �m going to bring apples! � Ooops! Sorry Love, you can �t come with us! It �s fun because the students have to guess why they can �t come.   Another one ( Intermediate ) : Have a student out of the classroom, & tell him we are all making up a story, you �ll have to ask us questions to find out, but we �ll only answer Yes or No. When the student is away, tell the class you won �t make up a story, but just answer yes if the last word of his question ends with a vowel, & No if it ends with a consonnant! ie = � Is it happening at school ? � Class : Noooooooooo! � Is it in space ? Class : Yessssssssss!! Is there an animal ? -No! � a human? - No! .... Errr ... �A snake ? - Yes!!! ( But you said there are no animals!!! Class : It �s great fun, but you can only play it once! We usually end up with fantastic stories! Sylvie Ps : I also play Chinese whispers, but you all probably know it! As I�m naughty....I usually pass a sentence such as : � The wicked witch watched the walrus wash�...:o)

10 Jun 2010     

aliciapc

Thank you rainbow, frenchfrog and stexstme2 for such good ideas !

10 Jun 2010