I played this game with my elementary school students in Korea and also with high school students who I taught for a short time. It worked really well in both cases. I'm about to try it out on my adult students in Australia.
The game was really popular. I was concerned for the health of my students at one point though. I had written a particularly long sentence and one student was huffing and puffing as he ran from my table back to his group, dictating the sentence. I could almost hear his heart beating and thought he was going to get so excited he would have a heart attack. Next time there will be no marathon sentences.
The students were running around screaming like kids. I did my favourite adaptation to the rules- moving around while they were intent upon the work, so when they come to find me to check the sentences they're not sure where I've gone. Two students thought I'd taken the lift to another floor at one point. It's difficult to keep an eye on everybody and make sure they're playing by the rules and do this stunt, but I like to disappear down the corridor or something in the middle of the game so my students have to chase after me to give me the answer and complete the game. I used to go down the corridor outside my classroom in Korea and reappear through the other door, which would frustrate my students there, although they loved it.
Whilst I have been a teacher of other subjects I am not a trained school teaching and I have never taught English as a second language. This game is great, it is working well with the High School students I have. After they have checked the sentence with me they go to the co-teacher who checks they fully understand what the sentence means and then the team can come and get a new sentence. It works really well.
I played this game with my
I played this game with my elementary school students in Korea and also with high school students who I taught for a short time. It worked really well in both cases. I'm about to try it out on my adult students in Australia.
Adult ESL Students
Let us know how it goes. Do adults also enjoy running around the classroom?
They sure do. The game
They sure do.
The game was really popular. I was concerned for the health of my students at one point though. I had written a particularly long sentence and one student was huffing and puffing as he ran from my table back to his group, dictating the sentence. I could almost hear his heart beating and thought he was going to get so excited he would have a heart attack. Next time there will be no marathon sentences.
The students were running around screaming like kids. I did my favourite adaptation to the rules- moving around while they were intent upon the work, so when they come to find me to check the sentences they're not sure where I've gone. Two students thought I'd taken the lift to another floor at one point. It's difficult to keep an eye on everybody and make sure they're playing by the rules and do this stunt, but I like to disappear down the corridor or something in the middle of the game so my students have to chase after me to give me the answer and complete the game. I used to go down the corridor outside my classroom in Korea and reappear through the other door, which would frustrate my students there, although they loved it.
this game rocks
Whilst I have been a teacher of other subjects I am not a trained school teaching and I have never taught English as a second language. This game is great, it is working well with the High School students I have. After they have checked the sentence with me they go to the co-teacher who checks they fully understand what the sentence means and then the team can come and get a new sentence. It works really well.
Thanks heaps!
English Game Comments
Thanks for your feeback Jaine!