Sunday, January 13, 2013

Vacabulary Building Game 2.0


In my original post for Vocabulary Building Game we used a tic toe style board with vocabulary words in the squares and scored that square by making sentences with those words in the squares.

So far in my classes this has been good game for private lessons and small group lessons (2-3 students).

Recently in one of our textbooks I read a similar idea of this game but instead of one board we use TWO!!

I used this 2.0 version this week in my classes to help with verb tense building. The two board system adds a level of difficulty that helps students with improving problem solving skills as well as English. It has been good with classes of 4 or more students with the students put into teams so they could help each other as they played.

The rules are changed slighly:

  1. From the board each team says the word they want the other team to use. Ex. Team A: "Know." Team B: "Knew."
  2. The team that answers gets the square. Ex. Team B wins. 
  3. Repeat until finished. 
 Of course this style of game has lots of opportunity for variation and once my students become comfortable with it I hope to evolve it into a Grammar Building Game where the students use sentences to win the square.

If you have any ideas on variations or improvements please let me know in the comments.

Chromatic English

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