Interesting and fun classroom activities?

[Torsten]

Hi, does anyone know some fun activities for an English class? For example, word game questions, riddles, jokes, etc?

Many thanks,
Torsten
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[Omar Wahdan]

errr.... anagrams might work

[Happytofita]

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.

[Omar Wahdan]

that aint cool, who would WANT to pay for makeing mistakes, its a HORIBLE idea, besides, some of these ppl ALSO have no cash

[Happytofita]

[Omar Wahdan]

what about the few who HAVE no cash???

[Happytofita]

[Omar Wahdan]

i dont even have coins
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[Happytofita]

A world of difference.

[Happytofita]

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.

Take care,

Mouhcine

[Sahid59]

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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[Happytofita]

[Stew.t.]

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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