I've used this game at two schools already, and it has been very successful, even among my worst students. The weakest students can participate, yet the strongest ones who are writing on the board will make many mistakes.
Since my level 1 Korean middle schoolers were learning "I like ___." from the textbook, I used that sentence. After the first round, with every class, the students always write sentences like this:
I like apple. I like book. I like house.
I let them make that mistake on the first round, and then let them do it again after having the co-teacher explain that plurals are needed with most countable nouns. Some of my students made the mistake twice with the countable nouns, so if your students are poor listeners, you might have to repeat the activity three or four times.
Submitted by kenneth_bkk on 5 April 2008 - 9:48pm.
Thank you Steve for this game. I am thinking of how I can adapt it to use in my SAT class, to reinforce to my students how multiple words/phrases/clauses can be used to function as a particular fixed/specified part of speech in a deceptively simple sentence. Wow!
Games for Korean Middle School Students
I used this game with my Korean 7th grade class and it woked great!
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I've used this game at two schools already, and it has been very successful, even among my worst students. The weakest students can participate, yet the strongest ones who are writing on the board will make many mistakes.
Since my level 1 Korean middle schoolers were learning "I like ___." from the textbook, I used that sentence. After the first round, with every class, the students always write sentences like this:
I like apple.
I like book.
I like house.
I let them make that mistake on the first round, and then let them do it again after having the co-teacher explain that plurals are needed with most countable nouns. Some of my students made the mistake twice with the countable nouns, so if your students are poor listeners, you might have to repeat the activity three or four times.
Thank you Steve for this
Thank you Steve for this game. I am thinking of how I can adapt it to use in my SAT class, to reinforce to my students how multiple words/phrases/clauses can be used to function as a particular fixed/specified part of speech in a deceptively simple sentence. Wow!