Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i14HbMI01283; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:37:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:37:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200402041732.i14HWu7Y059409@mail3.mx.voyager.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barb Linek" <eslmax@voyager.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9859] Re: Classroom games for Adults X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: CoreCommMail Status: O Content-Length: 5531 Lines: 166 Another good game to teach practical vocabulary is LIFE. Insurance, savings, paychecks, stocks, mortgage, and marriage are topics every adult needs to know more about. What about a non-competitive game like Four Corners, where each corner is a different option, like fast-food restaurants or free places to visit (library, museum)? The students choose their favorite and then stand in that corner. Then they have to discuss it and explain to the class why they like that one. For prizes, I go to Wal-mart and buy literacy-related things, like magnetic grocery lists, small memo pads or notebooks, Post-its, word search books, magazines. They appreciate things that will also encourage their children to write and read. The kids love those fat spiral notebooks because they are small enough to fit in a pocket. > Hello again everybody! > I love playing games in my ESL class, too. BINGO was already mentioned > but I play it every week to review the vocabulary words. The students > get practice writing because they make their own BINGO cards. They have > to listen to my pronunciation of the word and read the word on their > card. I usually play until we have three winners. Then I write each > winner's name on a card and have students draw until there is only one > card left. This person gets a prize. > > Other games that we play in class are Go Fish and Memory (or > Concentration). These are also good review games. The students compete > against each other but it is always friendly. > > One of my favorite websites for games is http://www.agameaday.com There > is literally a calendar with a game a day. I have never used it in > class but my colleagues and I play a lot. > > This brings up an interesting point that I think could spark some good > conversation. Each week, I offer prizes for BINGO. The prizes are > fairly inexpensive (stuff from the Dollar Store or things I have around > the house.) I think it is appropriate because it makes the game more > real and exposes students to American products. My prizes are always > adult such as soap, lotion, writing tablets, laundry detergent, etc. > How does everyone else feel about this? I have a co-worker who rewards > her students with stickers. She thinks it motivates them, I think it is > insulting. Do any of you give prizes? What do you think is an > appropriate prize? > > > Jennifer Morrow > Johnson County Public Library > Adult Learning Center > (317) 738-4677 > jmorrow@jcplin.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ra_duffy@comcast.net [mailto:ra_duffy@comcast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 5:16 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9854] Re: Classroom games for Adults > > One game that I have done many times in my ESL classes is tic-tac-toe. > This game is great for any type of review -- vocabulary, grammar, etc. > -- and can be easily adapted for all levels. My students love it! > > -- > Ruthann Duffy > ESL Tech Coordinator > Essential Skills Program > Shoreline Community College > 16101 Greenwood Ave N. > Seattle, WA 98133 > > Telephone: 206-533-6624 > email: ra_duffy@comcast.net > http://success.shore.ctc.edu/callab > > > > In a message dated 2/3/04 3:32:27 PM, leenhd78@yahoo.com writes: > > > > << the wealth of knowledge about > > games to play with adult literacy learners. >> > > > > Last year, our beginning students gave 'awards' to the teachers: > framed > > certificates citing each teacher's forte. I won the 'Queen of Games' > award, so > > I > > feel 'highly qualified' to provide some suggestions. > > > > Many TV/commercial games can be adapted to ESL classes. Using a > chalk/dry > > erase board, you can play modified Hangman or Wheel of Fortune, using > the > > words/expressions students have already studied. After the teacher > models these > > activities a few times, students can play the 'teacher' role. > > > > Elizabeth Claire at eceardley@aol.com sells a very inexpensive game > modeled > > on the old Password game: Just a Minute. Whoever is 'it' has a list > of 7-8 > > related words and tries to the elicit the right words from his/her > team. > > Teachers can of course make their own lists, but Elizabeth makes it > cheap and > > easy. > > > > Pictionary Junior is another commercial game easily adapted for ESOL. > And if > > students need work on listening to/pronouncing numbers it's Bingo > time. > > > > It seems to me, Colleen, that you have really tuned in to your > students' > > needs, realizing that when it's fun, learning English becomes easier. > Good > > games > > should be fun, competitive and challenging, but never, ever, ever > beyond the > > student's reach. The idea of these games is to leave students with a > sense of > > accomplishment, a feeling of success, so that they go home smiling. > > > > We find that games are useful at the beginning of a class - especially > if you > > usually have stragglers. They'll be so so sorry to have missed the > fun. > > > > And at the end of the class, the last 5-15 minutes of a 3-hour class, > games > > are sometimes so successful that we are begging the students to > please, please > > go home! > > > > There are lots and lots of other ideas in this area, but I hope these > will > > set you on your way. > > > > Sue Sandeen > > ESOL, Gainesville, FL > > sandees > > > > > > > > > > > Barb Linek Adult Education Coordinator Illinois Migrant Education Even Start (815) 609-9935
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