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Classroom Activities:
Language Games for English
Classrooms:
23-Vacation
Cards
Level:
Medium to Difficult
For this
activity you will need a deck of cards, and an imaginative
theme that could be crafted into some sort of story. For
example, I choose "send the teacher on a vacation". On the
board or overhead projector make a list like the following.
(You could ask your student for input.)
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A-exciting
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2-depressing
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3-expensive
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4-heroic
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5-romantic
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6-fantastic
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7-sad
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8-almost fatal
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9-cheap
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10-dramatic
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J-happy
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Q-weird
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K-change one option
Prompt the
students a little to get them started; perhaps offer a
beginning to the story. They then must continue making an
oral story by drawing one card and continuing the story
along those lines. For example, if they get 4, then the
teacher/protagonist must do something heroic or some kind of
heroic event must occur. If the students draw a K (or
whatever card you stipulate), then they can change one
option. This seems to help keep the momentum in the game.
Continue through all cards, with the stipulation that the
story must be concluded by the end of the deck. Obviously
there is a lot of room for variation here. Your word list
and theme could be related to your unit of study.
Many students
really enjoy this game; it is most interesting if you
personalize it and insert yourself or a student (assuming
he/she wouldn't mind).
24-Headmaster Game
Level:
Medium to Difficult
Have each
student take out a piece of paper and their dictionary.
Write on the board:
You are the
new headmaster of this school. You have two years to make
this the perfect school. You can have as much money as you
want, but you must spend it all in 2 years.
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What changes would you make immediately?
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What changes must be gradual?
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What would you do to make it a better school?
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What changes would you make?
Be
specific. For example, don't say hire better teachers. You
must say how you would find better teachers or what kind of
teachers you would hire. Also, remember you must think like
a headmaster, not like a student! Making school easy and
letting the students do no exams or homework will not make
parents happy!
Give the
students 15 minutes to work alone. Then put them in groups
of 3-5 with a leader to organize their thoughts. Each
group's leader will give its "report" to the other students
during the following class period.
If your
students have a small vocabulary you can help them out by
listing on the blackboard areas of discussion: teachers,
buildings, classrooms, activities, dorms, lunchrooms,
curriculum, sports, playground, library, bathrooms,
schedules, music, art, etc.
This is a
great activity for all ages. We always run out of time!
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