Catalogue Game
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Catalogue GameAuthor: Dan
level: Elementary
Target_English: Clothes
Here's a game I kinda invented (it is basically just a rip off of Karuta) that seems to work really well in about grade 3-6 elementary school.
See what you think I call it The Catalogue Game.
1) Teach clothing vocab. Things like pants,
shirt, shoes, swimsuit, pajamas and underwear (they love that one).
2)
Then divide the class into a couple of groups of whatever size you like (I
usually make them like 5-7) and place a catalogue in front of them. Call out a
piece of clothing and stand back.
3) First one to fine what you asked
for yells it out shows you and gets a point. All in all very, very simple game
that the kids like.
This game will begin with all the students lined up
in single file, but very shortly you will have all the kids surrounding the
table you are playing at and yelling out all kinds of things.
This game can get a little dry after a while, so then stick adjectives
in there too. Just ask them for: a red shirt, black pants, tall boots,
a girlfs pajamas, running shoes, baseball hat, ugly socks, sunglasses,
winter coat or anything else that they might know. In every class I teach
like 25 different pieces of clothing including slightly more obscure stuff
like umbrella, glasses, scarf, uniform, sandals, suit, neck tie, dress
shirt, blouse, skirt, and dress. Many of the names they already know
even in the lower grades and if you try to only go with about 10-12 the
game gets boring real soon.
Generally most towns and villages have a dump spot for
magazines and catalogues. Find out where it is and pay it a visit. Get enough
catalogues for whatever the number of groups that you will use. I like to use
all different catalogues for all the different groups and then switch them after
a while so that they donft spend too much time memorizing where everything is in
one catalogue. When choosing catalogues, the bigger the better, so that there
is more to look through, also if you can get a catalogue with the four seasons
that will be best as a winter catalogue will have no shorts or swimsuits etc...
and a summer catalogue will have no coats, or gloves.
The only hard rule
I stick to is that only one person can touch the catalogue per round and only
one person per team can yell at me that they found it. If you donft use this
one there will be the same kids doing all the work. Or you can use the rule
that everyone must be quite and no Japanese can be spoken, but what I like best
is just letting all hell break loose.
You can do variations on this with
other subject and different types of magazines or catalogues. You can use it to
find vehicles, sports, foods or letters (make sure there is lots of English in
it). In grade six I play a game where I make teams and they have to find cut
out and glue down the alphabet in order (or spell words if they are really
good). It takes time for them to find Xfs, Qfs and Zfs, and if they glue it
down in the wrong order they have to start over (that part is fun for me), but
they seem to enjoy it too.
Anyways I have used too much of your time so
I will say goodbye and take care.
Dan
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