I like playing board games, and I want to be an English teacher. I always think that learning English should be fun! Thus, I tried to use many things in my class. I used songs, TV dramas, and movies. One day, one of my Canadian friends introduced this game to me, and this became my favorite. Many of you probably played this game before. It's a pretty simple game. Green cards are adjectives, and red cards are nouns. Each player gets seven red cards at first. First judge draws a green card (The judge changes each turns). Then the other players choose a red card that best describes the adjective. The judge will shuffle the chosen cards and decide which one matches the best. Both processes are subjective, so we can expect very creative decision from this. The judge decides a card, the player who drew the card wins the green card. A player who accumulates pre-designed amount of green card wins the game.I add one more thing to make it more educational. When I play this game with
Korean children, I give my students time to explain why they chose the card after judge's announcement. If the reason is creative or wins sympathy, the students can get one point extra. This game was great to play.What is your favorite board game?
This game "IS" great game. It is not past tense.^^
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great idea. I used to be a high school English teacher and tried to incorporate games, as well. Sometimes the students are just not motivated...no matter what you do or how hard you try to make it fun. But, one game I had success with was Kush ball (sometimes spelled "koosh"). This is a light-weight ball, which is very important when you are dealing with adolescents in an indoor environment. I would start some music (usually music that I felt they would like), then have them lob the ball to each other until I stopped the music. Whoever had the ball in his/her hands when the music stopped had to look at the word on the flash card I was holding up, give me a definition, then use it in a sentence. I would often use homophones (such as capital and capitol, or its and it's, or assent and ascent) because I noticed that they would confuse these words often in the essays they turned in to me. They loved this game and would ask to play it quite often.
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