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Games that I practically used in my classes
A.S. Rafi:
Tahsina Apu, you poured cold water on my answer (literally/metaphorically), otherwise, hell ya! I am right 8)
Tahsina:
Dear Shah-Al-Mamun Vai,
Please share a few games that you practiced. Use this thread, then we might access and use your ideas in our class.
Thank you for taking the time to go through the posts. This is an inspiration!
R B Habib:
Great work Tahsina Apu. I used to practice kind of similar games in teaching parts of speech with my students. For adjectives, I used to divide the class in boys and girls and made them giving compliments or even complaints to each other using adjectives . The complaints part would be interesting as a boy would say to a girl in the class " I am afraid of her because she is too organized/ beautiful/ sweet/ complaining" or a girl would say "I don't like him because he is always late/ too tall that I need to have my eyes up to forehead/similar to that". The whole class would roll on laughing.
Games, Songs, Puzzles give learning grammar an all-new shape to learner. I remember, I used to teach conditionals with the song 'If I were a millionaire' and my students loved the video of the original song dated back 50 years or so. The comic making of the video had an interesting impression in their minds and they would pick up rules of conditionals without giving conscious effort. The next thing I used to make them do is write your own song in today's perspective.
Antara11:
Dear Madam,
It truly sounds interesting. I have liked all the ideas you have shared. Hope to use some of them in my class.
Tahsina:
I have done another game called 'chain story' in my class. In this game students need to sit in a circle. Each student gets a white paper. Everyone starts together by writing the first sentence of a story. Then they pass their papers to the person sitting next to him/her in clockwise or anti clockwise turn. Then everyone adds the second sentence to the sentence written by their peer before. This goes on until the teacher stops the turn. But the teacher monitoring should declare that after 2/3 turns they should stop so that students can draw a conclusion to the stories. So there will be 10 stories if there are 10 students. Finally the students will give a title for each story.
This activity keeps everyone involved. The students need to read whatever was written by their peers before and then creatively think and add sentences.
Here are two examples from my class:
1. Meditation is very useful to mankind. (student 1 didn't have any idea, this isn't usually a story sentence, but notice how the next student turns it into a story)
Thus a hermit lived in a jungle for 10 years in meditation. (student 2)
After 10 years he saw an angel in front of him. (student 3 used repetition which could be avoided but he took it to a different direction)
He was so much excited to see an angel in front of him. (student 4 couldn't elaborate much but rather repeated)
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2. I am a student of Daffodil International University. (student 1 didn't know what to write!)
I am doing BA in English here. (student 2 couldn't turn it into a story)
When I first came to this university, I fell in love with its beautiful campus and a beautiful girl in the BBA Department. (student 3 turned it!)
Then I went near the girl and asked her name. (student 4 had some development)
At first she looked at me, smiled and then told her name. (student 5 is adding up)
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