Hangman Revisited

Are you ready!? This is my usual shout everytime I get to play games with my early learner students. They are super energetic little girls and so cute with their witty tongues. Though they are speaking in their native language every now and then, I understand coz they are still learning. Their favorite game is the so-called Hangman Revisited or should we say 'Kill the Teacher' as what we call it at school. The kids love it so much that they would just play it the entire session. Playing Hangman Revisited is easy just like the tradtional Hangman but instead of the the stick drawn on the board like a man, we're using the shark's face at the bottom with a long stick with ladders at both sides of it which represents the numbers of mistakes/tries the students or the teachers could get before being swallowed comopletely by the shark, hahah. And this thought would keep them more awake and competetitive in playing this game. My little girls love this and so does my little boys in another early learner class on Sunday mornings. Smiles. Try this if it works.

Place Your Bets Best?

Today is quite different for me. I only have one class actually not really a class but an adult fun activity. We played a game of placing one's bets. After teaching them the basic words they were ready to play a game in which they need money to place their bets if the words [on a worksheet] I dictated to them sounds the same [homophone], spelt the same, and meant the same. They’ve got to make each bet higher than any other to win this betting game. We had lots of fun for in reality they just love money per se. In fact, we ended the fun game activity late as expected not until the monitor knocked the door and informed us that the time is over for us and we needed to go home. Well, I really enjoyed this night with them and I just hope I’d get the same people on my upcoming activity next week. There were so much fun and I am glad everybody spoke in English which is my main aim – speak in English as much as you can. Smiles.