A-mazing! My kids loved it! P.s this is a warmer game, so you do it at the very beginning of the class to get the students ready for the actual class (learning) Not all games are for learning the targeted language or vocabulary, sometimes you just need to have fun! Thanks for sharing, cheers 🍻
It is a very nice game but to really practice the language, i suggest that the one who looses should say something in Englush or Spanish, whatever the language they are learning. Ex. The teacher shows a flash card and the student makes a sentences, instead of saying he or she is out.
yes I can't understand the paedagogic reason behind this either. Warm ups should be fun but also about English not wasting time. Parents pay a fortune for their children to learn
Leeza Silverman So long as it prepares the students for the lesson then it's a warm up. There is always a lot more these kids have to grasp during the course of the lesson and therefore there is a need to get them refresh their minds.
I agree with you, I teach, I always think of those parents who put their child to language school to study and learn English. Each and every game in the class should be related to the topic or lesson
Suggestions for improvements are nice and can always help, but insisting on such improvements, in this case, would only betray an ignorance of childrens' cognitive development. This is a brilliant way to help children with transitions in the classroom. It develops an intrinsic desire of the student to transition from talkative modes needed to support games towards silent modes needed to support intellectual work in class. He is helping the students develop a natural desire to tune in to each other and to the teacher as well as to see that there are times when it is rewarding to be quiet and focused. To demand a pedagogical explication of all the other benefits of this activity is the laziness of an arm-chair general. This is the reason schools are so soul-numbing and crushingly dry for so many students; a teacher comes up with an engaging way to help students transition, tune in, experience the vocabulary and the pedants want the teacher to document, explicate and prove the pedagogical points of everything being done. I know this is how it works, I spent hours typing up proofs of how my mathematical activities benefited students to please pedantic administrators. I know the documentation itself did nothing to help students.
Sakura Sake i think his objective is to talk in english when giving instructions before the game and during the game. And also he is making the lesson enjoyable.
Sorry for the late respond. My intention is to keep the kids focused by walking around the class.. I have two main aims here. The first one is Lowering the Affective Filter and the second one is using this small warm up during the year as an attention grabber.
I use this activity mainly as an attention grabber. Whenever they are a bit distracted, I start doing it and one or two students catch it and in 30 seconds after the "brain break" we can go back to what we are supposed to do . I hope this helps. 👍😊
I think this would be a great exercise to help their concentration. You can see at the beginning of the class they are more subdued then at the end...When the kids come to my class they can be a bit lethargic and i need to wake them up...I
Sınıfın sayısı çok önemli değil aslında. Bu "attention grabber" olarak yıl içinde kullanılıyor. Bir öğrenci farkedip diğerleri de başlayınca çok güzel olabiliyor.
You really need to move away from that "English-only" mentality!!! It's 2018! You need to build on your students' already-existing linguistic resource rather than prohibiting them to use their first language in class!
Maybe you're right in some specific pedagogy. But I only have good results teaching my students English if they don't use their mother language in class. "If you want to learn how to dance, you need to dance, even if it's awkward at the beginning."
