You snooze, You loose
Presenter: Scottie Fredrickson from Concordia Programs

Presentation Description:
Welcome to the latest presentation of fun-filled activities dor the active language classroom. Scottuie will share ideas for creating a lively yet productive educational atmosphere. Don’t miss this opportunity to replenish your own bags of tricks with ideas for effective language learning. Designed for teachers of all languages, this sesson’s requirements include a sense of humor and a positive attitude.

Ideas on how to make playing games a controlled situation and there is learning going on.

Games:
Proverbial Hangman.
Pie: Have a picture under a pie . After each team that answers correctly picks a piece of a pie another picture reveals itself from underneath. After each piece is removed that team gets a chance to guess what picture it is. Could be country outlines or vocabulary pictures.
Flags
o Can teach colors
o Culture
o Say countries in target language
o How many stripes are
o Make comparisons/ how many stripes together
o Vocabulary on the flags; volcano/animals/lamas/frutas
o Spanish Flag is the only independent country that has a French symbol on it. Fleur de Lis. History of the Barbons as monarchs of Spain. Castillo/Aragon/Leon. Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and ?. End of the empire.
o Incorporate flags into games; Change teams into countries.
o Toss the inflatable globe to someone. Hold up a flag and student has to find it on the map and say the capital. Count backwards in Spanish until the student answer
Bingo
Change the rules a little.
Sentence Bingo. Homework is for students is to cut and glue boxes of clipart onto a bingo grid. Give extra credit to the ones who colored the clipart in.
On a separate sheet of paper write sentences that includes a picture of the clipart.
Cannot be the same sentences for all words
Cannot use more than one vocabulary word in one sentence.
Collect their papers. And read one sentence from each paper (make a little note next to each sentence that you read to check when someone yelled Bingo. Students cross off words that appear in the sentences you read.
After a few rounds have students swap boards after a few rounds.
Country bingo.
Have a grid with countries written on them.
Show flags and ask students to cross off if that country is on their grid.
Silent Bingo
Write words on an empty grid from previously taught vocabulary list. Then silently show pictures on overhead. Quietly they stand up to show Bingo.

Points while playing games:
Let teams pick from playing cards how many points (value of card) they get if they answer correctly. Or put certain value cards into different pockets and hand out sometimes from one pocket and some from the other.

Give each team two points out start out with. Classroom management: If some kids don’t corporate just take away some points, just walk over to their table and take away a point.
Pull in vocabulary: make a student the banker for example. Repetition and substitution drills.

Don’t want to have the smart kids on the team know all the answers. Only one person on the team is allowed to speak to answer. If you don’t know it you can ask a team mate.

Give team names. Let them touch a representation of their name. Give them beanie Babies or flags to hold. Let each team member hold the mascot for a while.

Songs:
Use songs to wake students up. Turn lights off when you are singing. Breaks the ice and helps the shy students.
A mi me gusta cantar to the melody of “the more we get together”.

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