Game shows and TV quizzes are a great source of inspiration for classroom activities. Believe it or not, I keep a notepad on the coffee table so I can jot down any teaching ideas I get from watching TV! It’s always good to have a range of different games up your sleeve to mix things up a bit. Here are some activities that appear in shows on the telly. I bet you already use a fair few of them, but you might find something new! Notes: Mini-whiteboards might be handy for a lot of these activities, particularly ones involving guessing.
Consider the process language needed for any of these games. (Show: Supermarket Sweep) Supermarket Sweep is ELT game heaven. My favourite is the pricing game. Display supermarket goods on the board, and give students a list of prices.
They have to match the correct retail price with the item. Good for revising foods/household items, revising numbers/prices. • Rhyming blanks (Show: Supermarket Sweep) Another good one. Dale Winton used to read clues to contestants.
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The clue was a rhyme, which one missing word. This can be a fun review or activation game Good for sounds and rhymes, listening • This is the answer, what’s the question? (Show: Mock the Week) I’ve been using this for years in my introduction lessons. Just board a range of answers to questions about yourself.
31 1984 3 Vietnam Tuna Students guess the questions. How old are you? What’s your favourite food?
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Good for revising question forms • Conveyor belt (show: the Generation Game) This is basically Kim’s game. The final challenge on the Generation Game was where contestants saw loads of objects pass by on a conveyor belt. They then had a set time to recall the objects, winning each one they could remember.
Listening For The Gist Activities For The Elderly
Gist Purpose Michael: The gist of something is the main point or key idea. In the TOEFL iBT ® test, Gist-content questions ask you to identify the main topic or idea of the listening conversation or lecture. This activity encourages learners to listen for clues in what they hear. It demonstrates that you don’t necessarily need all the details of a conversation to be able to understand the gist.
You can do the same game to suit your topic, awarding points for each item/word recalled. The best thing about the actual show was that one prize was always a cuddly toy.
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You can add your own humour by including silly, irrelevant objects like ‘a rubber chicken’. Good for improving memory, revising vocabulary items • The Chase In the TV programme there is a part of the game whether contestants answer questions against ‘the Chaser’, who is a quiz expert. If they get a question right, they move a space closer to safety. An approach to classify software maintenance request templates.
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If the Chaser gets the question right, they move closer to the contestant, in the hope that they catch them. This is easily adaptable to the classroom for review games. You can make a small group of students the Chasers, and the rest of the class the contestants. The ‘final chase’ is also quite fun.
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In this game the Chaser has to answer a certain amount of questions in two minutes. If they answer wrong, the contestant has a chance to answer. If the contestants are right, they peg the Chaser back one space. This activity can be fun, frantic, and importantly EVERYBODY LISTENS TO THE QUESTIONS! Good for active listening • You Bet This was a brilliant show in the 1990s.