Description
The game plays similar to the standard map game with a few changes. Please refer to the attached pdf for rules and how to prepare the slides.
Materials: File
Jeopardy
Description
Students are divided into groups and given a whiteboard. The first group chooses a category and value to reveal a question. All groups then write their answer to the question within a given time limit (more time for difficult questions) and hold up their boards. Groups that give a correct answer receive points for that question. Each group then changes their writer and the next group selects a question.
Notes
If your class could struggle with the numbers, use simple points like 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 instead of the dollar values. Credit to Johanna Liang for the original template.
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Self-Introduction Teacher Quiz
Description
Students use their picture dictionary and an eraser to participate in the game.
Teachers show a page from the picture dictionary. In the example file, we used only what ~ do you like? questions. Teachers take turns asking students to guess which color, animal, food, etc. the teacher likes. Students can discuss in pairs briefly, and then put their eraser on their guess. If they are correct, they can get 1 point.
Notes
In the included example file, there are only 3 different questions to be asked to each teacher. But, it was not intended to use all of them for both teachers. The intention was to use this file for 10-15 minutes in the 1st lesson as a review of previous English while getting to know their new teacher and a reminder about what their ALT likes. It’s easy to adjust and add more questions to match the time limit you have.
For questions which have multiple answers, students can get 1 point if their eraser is on any of the correct answers. They do not need to correctly guess all answers or use multiple erasers.
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.