Asleep/Awake

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Students make groups and pick a number (1-5). They each get a worksheet. All students go to ‘sleep’ – i.e. they close their eyes and put their heads on their desks.

One student at a time in each group is called by their number to be ‘awake’ – i.e. they can open their eyes and look at the board. A word or two from a mixed up sentence is written on it and they need to remember it without saying it out loud or writing it down.

The student then goes back to ‘sleep’ and the next group member ‘wakes up’ and reads the next part of the sentence. All students in the group then wake up and work together to put together the sentence. At this point they can write each other’s words on the worksheet and put the sentence in order.

Posted byPaul on August 25, 2022

One comment on “Asleep/Awake”

  1. Chris says:
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    (Copied from the other version of this game) I played a somewhat different variation of this yesterday. I used whiteboards instead of worksheets. Each student woke up and saw a word and then wrote it on the white board. At the end of the words, Ts then called out what number should be the scribe to write the sentence after the group unscrambled it. If the scrambled sentence was a question, then students needed to answer the question. I then awarded points for the fastest group, 5 for the first to finish, then 4, 3, 2, 1, 1 (I had 6 groups). There was no time limit, and, each group always got points. I was hesitant to award points this way, but aside from the one class that had groups made with the top 4 students in the entire grade, and then all the other groups had the lower 15-16 students in the grade, the point spread was only 3-4 points between the top and lowest scores. This particular class was JHSG3, and, it was a review of all the English they've studied this year and some of previous years, like 3rd person singular needing an -S on the end of verbs which is a common mistake. At the end of each question, after we'd read the unscrambled sentence together, I pointed out common mistakes students make with each grammar. Many students told me after the lesson that it was helpful to share all the answers like that so that they could all see that they all make the same mistakes regardless of English ability and also remember the things they need to be careful of.

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