This is a great game sent in by Kawther:
The prep….
1. Before the lesson get several different colored balls. They should be around baseball size and soft. Or you could go crazy and do beachballs if you wish! 🙂
2. Write one question on each ball.
The game ….
1. Sit the kids in a circle.
2. Throw one ball into the circle, the kid who catches it has to answer and then throw it to someone else. (You could even give a bonus point to the first person to guess what question is on the ball just by hearing the answer!)
3. Whilst the first ball is being thrown to someone new and answered, add in another ball.
4. Keep going until all the balls are flying around all the time and being answered by everyone!
This is a souped up version of the Koala Game and of course you can do many, many more questions.
If your kids can’t read yet, either write the question in their native language ( and they have to answer in English of course) or put a number on the ball and give a hint to the question using flashcards on the board.
Enjoy and do let us know what you think in the comments!
Be genki,
Richard
Earn More From Your Passion For Teaching English!
Great game!!! Thanks!!! I was thinking about a new question game myself and really like this one. My problem is, however, that the kids can’t read yet, so I’d have to read the question to them. I will prepare the balls anyway for the older groups and I had another idea for the little ones: I thought they could sing the questions from the songs: e.g. What’s your name?, How old are you?, Do you speak English?, What’s this?, How did you get here?, Where are you going?, Where is the toilet/ TV/CD player/piano/teacher/ teacher’s room? etc. and the kid who gets the ball answers it. I think that will be fun! I’m going to try it out this and next week before the Easter break. Happy Easter everyone!
I had a small soccer ball that I decorated with pictures to represent the different questions. The word ‘Name’ was easy to recognize enough, but the other prompts were drawn in the white spaces of the ball, like numbers, for ‘How old are you?’, ‘When’s your birthday?’, ‘What’s the date today?’ a picture of a sun for ‘What’s the weather like today?’ , a picture of a cat or dog would elicit, ‘Do you have any pets?’, ‘Which do you like, cats or dogs?’ The ball also had pictures of fruits, food, airline pilot (‘What do you want to be?’), etc. We’d toss the ball, and whatever picture your right thumb was on, you’d ask that question to anyone in the circle. When they would answer, the student asking the question would throw the ball to the one who answered, saying ‘Ok, your turn.’