Contents:I'm sure you've been in class and have forgotten a game rule or target
word from the lesson. Although the Genki English lesson plans are all online,
printing them is a bit of a hassle.
So now each lesson has a complete summary on one sheet of A4 paper. There
are also versions in Thai and Japanese for easy team teaching.
These will be made into a "for sale" book in the future, but
for now they're online for you to download, enjoy and hopefully give me
some feedback on how to improve them.
This game was sent in by Genki English reader Beth. Here it's described
for feelings, but you can easily use it for any of the themes that have
gestures e.g. CD3's "transport", CD4's "occupations"
or CD 6's "pets" etc.
1. Divide the class evenly into groups and assign each group an emotion
(angry, happy, sad, etc.).
2. When the game starts, students find a partner and do "Rock, paper,
scissors" ( the song is on CD4).
3. Since the partner needs to be from a different emotion group, students
should let their emotions show while searching (happy group students should
be smiling, for example).
4. Let's say you have an Angry student and a Sad student doing "Rock,
paper, scissors", let's say the Sad student loses. The loser (sad)
asks the winner (angry) "How are you?" The winner replies,
"I'm angry." The loser (who was formerly sad) replies,
"Me too!". And now they are both angry! When the
time is up, the group with the most students are the champions.
This also works great with the new Do you like animals? theme. The kids
"rock, paper, scissors" then the winner asks the loser "Do
you like...?" plus whatever animal the winner is. The loser has to
answer "Yes, I do!" and becomes that animal. It's amazing to
see the different animals spread across the class in waves!
Speaking of animals, before the game you'll want to make sure the kids
know them all, so for that we have a super "easy to teach" remix......
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