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Games that I practically used in my classes

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Tahsina:
In this thread I have planned to give details about some games I play/played/will play in my classes. As these are tried and will be tried, you can adopt a few in your classes too.  :D
Do comment if you have any suggestions or add if you have any games. But please do not copy a game from any source which you didn't practice.

Tahsina:
The first one involves the use of adjectives and adverbs. In this guessing game the students need to think of a noun (an object/fruit/animal/person...the list goes on) and give clues to the class by describing it. The class try to locate the noun.
For example, 'I am thinking of an animal which is huge in size. Thus it walks slowly but when in danger it can run fast. It can live both in water and on land. It has small eyes and a tail. ... ...'
I noticed that this game instigates curiosity and fun among the students and they use adjectives and adverbs in context.

Tahsina:
I used the hangman game for different cases. For example, the teacher can write a sentence (Desert is the _ _ _ _ _ _ place on earth) on the board with a blank space for a word. For the example in the parenthesis the clue is it's an adjective. The students guess the word by uttering the letters which they think will fit in the word. The teacher draws the hangman if the students' guesses are wrong. The students win if they can get the word.  :D

Tahsina:
I used this game for preposition classes. This gets the whole class excited. You have to be prepared that there will be shouts, laughter etc in the class while playing this game. You can declare a few rules in the beginning - like how one team should raise their hands to be given permission to tell the answer, how you'll select if there are more hands from one team, after getting negative marking which team gets the next chance etc.

For the first part of the game the teacher needs to divide the whole class into groups. You can decide the number of members for each group. You can name the group and these names will appear on the board. The groups will prepare preposition exercises and hand the list of sentences over to the teacher. You should tell how many sentences with blanks for preposition you are expecting. During preparation time the teacher needs to move around so that same kind of sentences don't get repeated.

After getting the 5 exercises (considering that you have 5 groups), the teacher will start the game. When the teacher utters the sentences loud, the group which prepared that particular exercise will keep mum, and the other 4 groups will get the chance to answer by raising their hands. For each correct answer the groups will get points and the teacher will write down the points in the columns for the groups. For wrong answer there will be - 1 (minus one) for the group.

At the end the points are counted and a winner is declared.  :D

A.S. Rafi:
first one is an elephant  8)

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