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 #2 (permalink) Wed Dec 17, 2008 0:10 am Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Dec 19, 2008 21:55 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| Try this out: the students must pay a princely sum of money whenever they make mistakes. Then, when you collect a tidy sum of money, you buy something for the classroom. This game creates a funny, competitive atmosphere in the classroom. |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 19, 2008 22:02 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| that aint cool, who would WANT to pay for makeing mistakes, its a HORIBLE idea, besides, some of these ppl ALSO have no cash |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Dec 19, 2008 22:14 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| Omar Wahdan wrote: |
| that aint cool, who would WANT to pay for makeing mistakes, its a HORIBLE idea, besides, some of these ppl ALSO have no cash |
My point exactly. Who would want to pay, in other words, who would want to make mistakes. The students will focus of what they are doing and what they are saying more. Also, I am not talking about cash, just about coins. |
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:25 am Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| what about the few who HAVE no cash??? |
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Dec 22, 2008 14:15 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| Omar Wahdan wrote: |
| what about the few who HAVE no cash??? |
I am talking about coins. Cash always sounds like a lot of money. However, I do not think that those who take English classes are strapped for cash/cash-strapped. |
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Jan 05, 2009 23:09 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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i dont even have coins
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:50 am Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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| A world of difference. |
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| #10 (permalink) Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:15 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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Hello Torsten,
I have just remembered some activities we used to do at the American Language School. When one of the students says a word, the one next to him/her must say another word that starts with the final letter of the word said by his/her classmate. It was a real fun! It also helped us with spelling. We were not allowed to write the words. We had to imagine the spelling in next to no time. The teacher used to give us tongue twisters and asked us to practice them to improve our pronunciation, too. He also used to give us some letters and asked us to form as much words as possible using them. The reason behind this activity was to teach us that using a method always helps. Because we did not follow any method and we were doing it at random. I hope these activities will help you.
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| #11 (permalink) Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:54 pm game for students... |
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Hi Torsten..
Word games are of many kinds.
You can give your students a rather long word telling them to find the maximum number of small words which can be formed from that long word using the letters only once.
For example if the long word is 'magnificent' they can make some of the following words : man, age, get, nice, mat, fat, fit, gate, cent etc.,
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| #12 (permalink) Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:57 pm game for students... |
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| Sahid59 wrote: |
Hi Torsten..
Word games are of many kinds.
You can give your students a rather long word telling them to find the maximum number of small words which can be formed from that long word using the letters only once.
For example if the long word is 'magnificent' they can make some of the following words : man, age, get, nice, mat, fat, fit, gate, cent etc.,
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We did something like that at the A.L.S. |
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| #13 (permalink) Sun Jan 18, 2009 14:39 pm Interesting and fun classroom activities? |
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hi Torsten
Check out Black Stories, a development of the old 20 questions idea (yes/no questions to discover sth);
http://www.moses-verlag.de/black-stories/
It is available in German or English.
Another very simple game is to put something small in a sealed tin, the group has to guess by handling it what is in the tin.
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