Making Teaching Fun Ideas1

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Review generally involves answering questions.

1) Random questions - Standard procedure:

Make teams with names and use money to score.

Use numbered lottery for each student/team to select the questions => they pick a number and that refers to a question.

If Correct answer => give $. If incorrect, give Q to other team.

Can modify so that all teams put in an ante before each q, the jackpot goes to the first team to answer correctly. Really just takes $ from the other team. Dont know if this would work without betting.

Can make them come up and write the answer on the board or just sit and speak.

Penalties for helping and speaking in thai and being naughty.

Twist on this is to get the teams to make the questions, then they give them to the other teams, the other teams have to work out the answer for points.

2) Board Game - Standard procedure:

Make teams with names and use money to score.

Use board and role dice in order to pick questions.

Need board, dice and pieces to do this and they never seem so keen o it => I wouldnt bother really.

3) Card Game snap - Standard procedure:

Play individual, use money to score.

Use cards with different words/clauses/gap_fills etc on them, you put cards down in the center, they look for a match, whoeve r puts their card down first wins.

Match can be a function like a suitable prep or something.

Need custom cards for this => but could just print and cut, so not so hard.

Can modify to get them to run up to the front or something.

What other games can we play to do review????

Card games? Board games? Drawing games? Dunno


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Vocab generally involves spelling words, describing meaning, giving opposites, words that mean the same or different meanings for the same word => answering questions.

A) Random questions same as for review, just have a list of words and several tasks around each one for your questions:

Spell it,

unscramble it with clue,

guess the word from clue,

give opposite,

give another word with same meaning,

give all the different meanings (if it has more than 1),

what type of word is it (parts of speech),

hangman to guess word,

give plurals

B) Word Scramble make a word scramble game for the vocab in question. Can just chop words in 2 or scramble all letters, print, cut up and give. Set a time limit or just give money to the winner.

C) Word search use the program on your pc to generate and paste in PwrPnt. Cash prize, set time limit. Instead of giving words to look for, can show pictures of words (ok if they are nouns or verbs).

d) word matching give pictures/drawings/descriptions of words and a list of the words. Task is to match them. Vary this many ways, tell a story but hold up pictures of certain words instead of saying them.

e) Categorising words, do matching first, then put words into g roups.

f) Give lists of words, have to pick the odd 1 out.

look in english games for other vocab games


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Study activities generally involve using grammar in structured examples like:

1. gap fills,

2. sentence unscramble,

3. sentence creation from basics,4. answering questions,

5. determining quest ions from the answer,

6. changing sentence style (+,- ,Q),

7. Determining correct tense,

8. determining correct verb forms with tenses and pronouns,

9. changing pronouns and effect on verbs,

10. Reading and identifying vocab/grammar,

11. identifying errors.

12. Writing sentences In correct form about a picture.

Study ideas ca be gotten from course books aswell as my cutting edge books.

A study exercise works on the grammar point being taught.

These are similar to review really, except review has new vocab in it too. Here I am treating vocab as separate from the grammar study.

It is hard to make this into games, but you can do it by the same random question game and offer cash prizes. Seeing as though you are teaching this, I would rather just get them to focus on it

in pairs, play games for vocab and activate.

Remember before each study exercise, you should write the 1stexample on the board ad do it clearly, then ask them to do the rest. Noise factor and explanation. Dont let them know it is

from the book.


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Activate involves using the language with minimal structure help.

Try to avoid having the language to be used o the board during the mai part of this as they will just read it.

It is very important with kids to make this into a game/competition with scoring and teams. They will not like simple role plays or activates, they just turn off.

Activate ideas are found in books, so look for relevant ideas. But use the same ideas, teams (mix them up too), scoring ($ is best), randomising things (numbers from a box).

Thus there is no point listing them all, just be able to find them when you need them.


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Bingo:

You have numbers or words on paper in a cup, you draw the out 1 at a time.

The students have cards with a jumble of some of the items (or derivitives of) you are pulling out

Each match they get, they cross it out until they complete their sheet and they yell bingo and win. They can ask you what you are pulling out, to practice language too.

Bingo can be used for almost anything, note winning is determined by both the luck of the draw and your listening comprehension.

Could offer cash prizes and have teams.

Vocab, irregular verbs, preps, conjctns, nouns, plurals, tenses, time, anything

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Find someone who:

Good for practicing Q&A, need to modify for kids to make it competitive.

Use with can/cant, like/dislike, pres simple, pres perfect, past simple, future simple, opinions

Write list of things that people must look for and ask other people about, using the grammar point in question.

The student must go around and form questions from these and find someone who.

For kids, need to prep well on required language, then monitor them individually => say let one person walk around and ask other people things. Give points for every correctly formed

and pronounced Q. Also for the answers.


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Job interview:

__________________________________________________________________________Guess my job:


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