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defender · 4th August 2006, 11:19

A game I use in big classes, loads of fun but they do get a bit rowdy (which I like). You need to make wipeclean answer cards - stick a piece of card inside a plastic wallet folder and tape the end up. Teams of students get a wipecard, it saves having them run to the whiteboard and if they are shouting answers out they'll copy.

Blankety blank - Works like the old telly game. Read out a sentence with a blank (based on the target language) and the teams each have to decide the best word to fill the blank. I often use it with powerpoint and you can flash up a picture with a sentence too. For example, a picture of Thaksin bounces in on powerpoint with the caption "Thaksin has got a lot of money, he is very _______________." All the teams have to write down an adjective that they think fits (i.e. rich, successful, important etc.), when you say so they must show their answers, if it matches your answer they get a point. It's up to you how difficult or easy you make it - I like to make the answers a little ambiguous with older students so that there is an element of chance to make it more interesting because they can give a correct answer and still not get a point, they have to think like me to get the points! E.g. Yesterday I had a really difficult test, I was really worried. It went OK and I got a decent grade, now I feel _______________." (relieved, happy, proud, delighted, relaxed etc.)

I have played slap with classes of 60 before (and it's really good with 30 or 40). Write a load of vocabulary wordson the whiteboard on any theme you fancy. Divide the class into three teams (seated in their chairs). Each round of the game, nominate a student in each team to play (about equidistant from the whiteboard is fair), call out a question (for which the answer is on the board) and have them run to the whiteboard and slap the correct answer. My greatest achievement was playing this with 55 M6 boys and having a laugh, with younger kids you can stick flashcards on the board instead.

4th August 2006, 11:19	#33 (permalink)
defender defender is not sweaty yet king of ling Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 14,667 vCash: 6225 Rep Power: 502	Re: Games for large unruly classes A game I use in big classes, loads of fun but they do get a bit rowdy (which I like). You need to make wipeclean answer cards - stick a piece of card inside a plastic wallet folder and tape the end up. Teams of students get a wipecard, it saves having them run to the whiteboard and if they are shouting answers out they'll copy. Blankety blank - Works like the old telly game. Read out a sentence with a blank (based on the target language) and the teams each have to decide the best word to fill the blank. I often use it with powerpoint and you can flash up a picture with a sentence too. For example, a picture of Thaksin bounces in on powerpoint with the caption "Thaksin has got a lot of money, he is very _______________." All the teams have to write down an adjective that they think fits (i.e. rich, successful, important etc.), when you say so they must show their answers, if it matches your answer they get a point. It's up to you how difficult or easy you make it - I like to make the answers a little ambiguous with older students so that there is an element of chance to make it more interesting because they can give a correct answer and still not get a point, they have to think like me to get the points! E.g. Yesterday I had a really difficult test, I was really worried. It went OK and I got a decent grade, now I feel _______________." (relieved, happy, proud, delighted, relaxed etc.) I have played slap with classes of 60 before (and it's really good with 30 or 40). Write a load of vocabulary wordson the whiteboard on any theme you fancy. Divide the class into three teams (seated in their chairs). Each round of the game, nominate a student in each team to play (about equidistant from the whiteboard is fair), call out a question (for which the answer is on the board) and have them run to the whiteboard and slap the correct answer. My greatest achievement was playing this with 55 M6 boys and having a laugh, with younger kids you can stick flashcards on the board instead. __________________ Excuse me for not taking this seriously .....