Materials: File

Typhoon (PowerPoint version)

Description

The students make groups. Each groups take turns to pick a number, which leads to a question. There’s then a certain amount of talking time where the groups can discuss the answer with each other.

After the thinking time is over, the students can volunteer. The class asks the question to the volunteer. Once they get the right answer, they win or lose points, or cause another group to lose points.

Notes

  • In the PowerPoint file, click the numbers in the grid to go to each question. Click the icon in the bottom right hand side of the question slide to show the reward. Then, click on the bottom right icon again to return to the question selection slide.
  • When adding your own questions, you can copy the content of the first question slide to keep a consistent format, but please note not to copy the bottom right icon – otherwise every question will link to the same reward!
  • Asking for a single volunteer creates quite a high pressure environment. It may help to have the students make groups. Then, the group can be picked to volunteer together.
  • Alternatively, again in groups, each student can assign themselves a number. Then, after the thinking time, the teacher calls one number and every student who matches that number from each group can volunteer. For example, if the teacher calls ‘2’, every student who is number 2 can volunteer. This means students can’t know who will be picked beforehand, and encourages peer support.

What’s This? Quiz

Description

The students make groups. Taking turns, each group picks a space on a grid shown on the TV (for example, red 3, green 2 etc). The matching space is then removed and part of a picture underneath is revealed.

The class asks: ‘What’s this?’. The group either replies with ‘It’s a ___’ or ‘I don’t know’. If they get it wrong or don’t know, the next group has a turn. When a group guesses the right answer, the whole picture is revealed and they start on the next hidden picture.

Fruit Hunt

Description

Students make groups. Using a PowerPoint file, they see a series of pictures with a certain number of fruit on them. After the students have had some time to look at the picture, the question is shown. The students then repeat the question ‘how many [fruit]?’.

After some thinking time, a student can volunteer. They get one point for each correct answer.

Notes

  • Asking for a single volunteer creates quite a high pressure environment. It may help to have the students make groups. Then, the group can be picked to volunteer together.
  • Alternatively, again in groups, students can assign themselves a number. Then, after the thinking time, the teacher calls one number and every student who matches that number can volunteer. For example, if the teacher calls ‘2’, every student who is number 2 from each group can volunteer. This means students can’t know who will be picked beforehand, and encourages peer support.