Friday, June 6, 2014

I-Phone Pass Game

This is a game I learned at my company's training and it is very very easy to demo and implement as a regular activity in your class room. Kids, possibly everywhere, really like i-phones. I printed two of them out and I believe they are actual size (though I have no idea because I don't personally have an I-Phone). After I printed them I laminated them so that I can use them again and again. This is another question and answer game that can be played in a couple of versions. First demo the game. I walk around and make some music up as I walk and pretend that I am passing the phone through the row of students. Then I say, "Stop!" and pretend to have a conversation with myself. This is a question and answer game and I use grammar points that we already used so that it is more of a review. Then I play the actual game with them. I like using fun songs like Daft Punk's "Around the World", whatever is upbeat and fun works. The students really enjoy seeing who will get the phone, and laugh a lot. Here is an example dialog:

Me: Hello, how are you?
Student: I'm fine thank you, and you? (some of the more advanced students will say they are sleepy or hungry, but most have the former memorised).
Me: I'm OK! Do you like baseball?
Student: Yes, I do

And then I play the music again. The second version of this game is that both phones are being passed around the room. One has a Q for question and the other has an A for answer. When the music stops the students have to create their own dialog. I really only recommend this for later on in the year with 3rd year students and after you have played the game several times so there is little explanation needed.

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