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Home Run Derby
Author = Brian Shepherd
Level = Elementary
Target_English = vocabulary review
Big_small = Small Groups
What you'll need: a box, lots of flash cards, a minimum of 10 students
Preparation:
Clear out the
desks. Using four chairs, make a baseball diamond the size of the classroom. It
works best if the front of the classroom serves as home plate. Move the podium
to the middle of the classroom. This is the pitchers' mound. Divide the
students into two teams (Yankees and Mariners or something fun like that).
Uneven teams mean that students will not continually go up against the same
person, a plus in this game. Take a box, preferably wider and longer than A4
paper, and fold the bottom flaps in. The box now serves as a blind to hide your
flash cards from the students on first and third base. Ready your stack of
flash cards on your pitcher's mound (podium). You are the pitcher. Put a
student from each team on each base.
The game:
As the pitcher, you will show the students at home plate a card through
the hole you have created in the box. Once the students at home plate
see the card, they dash to first, whisper the word from the card to their
teammates. Then the students at first run to second and whisper the
word to the second base students. The second base students run to
third and whisper the word to the third base students, and then finally
the third base students run to home where they shout the word out to you
(or the home room teacher, who may serve as the umpire). The team
to cross home first and say the word correctly scores one home run.
If the word is incorrect, the student can return to third to recheck their
answer with their teammate. If the students cross home at the same
time, have them janken (in English) to see who gets to give the answer
first. The students continue to rotate around the bases, serving
one turn at each base until they reach home. The main pressure in
this game lies on the student who is at home plate. They will be
the only student to see the card. If they don't know the English
word they may hesitate or give up. For this reason, I tell them that
if they don't know the English they may use the Japanese word, hoping that
one of their teammates at first, second, or third base know the word in
English. Of course, if the word goes all the way around the bases
and the third basemen crosses home plate and shouts the Japanese word,
no points are given. But usually someone on the team will know the
word in English before the word travels around the bases. And even
if they don't, the fun of the game for the students is racing around the
bases. Before starting the game, decide how many you want to go until.
Batter up!
Brian Shepherd
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