Tug of War

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Split the board into two halves, one half is the students’ side and one is the teacher’s side. Draw a horizontal line between these two sections, with 5 dots either side. Place a circle magnet in the centre of the line. The students repeat the target English with the teacher until time runs out. The teacher and one random student janken. Move the circle magnet one circle towards the winner’s side. When the rounds are finished, the winning team is whichever team has the circle magnet in their half of the board.

Posted byPaul on September 2, 2024

One comment on “Tug of War”

  1. Chris says:
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    I played this today for the first time with ESG4. They loved it quite a lot. I changed it to using dice instead of RPS, and, I tried a second variation using two students each rolling a die vs the teacher rolling. It was pretty fun for the students, and in the end, we finished in a draw, which made it even better for the students. I also drew stick figures of a few students pulling a hastily drawn rope vs two hastily drawn stick figures of the teachers. It worked incredibly well, and the students asked to play this again next week. I think if you have a bigger class, starting off with one die per row of students or and one each for the teacher could be a fun way to let all the students have a turn rolling the dice and also help finish up the game quickly. I only have 10 students in that class, so, I can experiment with many different variations easily.

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