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Contents:
1. Can you kick? / Quidditch Game
2. Karaoke Taikai
3. Lego Multi Questions
4. And finally
Hello,
Its nearly the end of term, so this month we have some very nice English
for the playground and a couple of year-end review games. Enjoy...
1. Can you kick? / Quidditch Game
Grade: Elementary 2 to Junior High
Target English: Can you ...? + sport words
Preparation: Sheet of mini cards for each student.
1. Split the class into about 6 or 8 groups.
2. Assign each group a different word (e.g. kick, throw etc. ), this is
the skill that that group wants to collect.
3. Give each child a sheet of mini-cards, if you hand them out as one sheet,
the kids should cut them into individual cards.
4. The students then go round asking as many people as possible "Can
you ...?" + the skill they are looking for. (For example the "shoot"
team asks "Can you shoot?"
5. If the student still has that mini card (s)he says "Yes, I can."
and gives it to the person who asked.
6. If they have already given it away then they say "No, I can't.
I'm sorry." and walk off.
7. The group that is the first to collect as many of their skill as there
are students in the class (e.g. 30 items for a class of 30 kids, 6 items
for a class of 6 kids), sits down and they are the winner.
You can make up your own mini card sheets using clip art. Or if you are
a Genki English CD Owners Club member you can print out the ready made
cards on the site. Colour is always popular with the kids, but black and
white cards allow you to practice some colours as you ask questions like
"What colour shall we make his hair?" or shirt, or shorts etc.
plus black and white is a lot cheaper to print.
This month's game goes very well with CD7's "Can you kick?" song.
The idea is to practise words such as "kick", "throw",
"catch" i.e. words the kids can use with you in the playground.
But you could very easily change it to practise words for any sport, or
even a quick game of Quidditch, just to celebrate the release of the new
Harry Potter movie.
2. Karaoke Taikai
A very simple idea for the end of term is to have a Karaoke Competition
( a "taikai" in Japanese).
1. Put the kids in groups.
2. Let them choose one song you've done over the year.
3. They perform the song in front of the class ( or even the whole school).
If you don't have all the picture cards for every theme with you, get the
kids to make up their own verses with words that they can remember. It's
a great way to see what they've done over the year, let's you see what
needs reviewing and might give you some more ideas for next year.
3. Lego Multi Questions
This is a another very simple review type twist sent in by Stephen.
1. Line the kids up.
2. Ask the front kid in each group a question.
3. The fastest to answer gets a lego brick.
4. The next kid in each line moves forward.
5. Repeat from 2.
6. At the end of the time, see which team has built the best lego model.
Try again, but this time ask the kids what everyone should build, a house?
a car? a monster? The kids can play this game for ages and ages. If you
run out of questions, give them an answer and they have to give you the
question e.g. "Blue" and they have to say "What's your favourite
colour?" or "What colour is this?" etc.
4. And finally ...
I've just finished workshops for 600 teachers in Bangkok, which was great.
The idea is these 600 teachers will now go back to their local areas and
train up the teachers in how to use Genki English. It's amazing to be able
to share all the ideas you have sent in with the teachers over here. In
Thailand it's not just a case of using English to let the kids communicate
with other kids around the world, but economically it's a fantastic chance
for children in the less affluent areas to maybe attend a better high school
and hopefully attain better jobs and lifestyle. The key genki ideas of
confidence, energy and believing in yourself work well whatever the culture,
and coupled with the songs & games are so easy to teach that we can
make a difference in many other countries as well. If you would like to
do the same where you live, please contact your Ministry of Education
and let's try and work something out.
On the site there is now a Lesson Plans Book in Thai to download, just
click the Thai link at the top of the main page. On the "forum"
section of the site there's also a first version of the Lesson Plans Book
in English that you might also want to have a look at.
The Genki English Japan Summer Workshops are just about full up everyday
now, but I think there are maybe still a few slots left for the only Genki
English kids show in Kyoto on July 28th. You can find full details here:
http://www.ecc-tokiwa.com/
Plus keep checking back on the site for lots more new materials over the
Summer.
Be genki,
Richard
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Richard J. Graham
The Genki way to Teach.
Primary School English Games, Songs and Activities
http://www.GenkiEnglish.com
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