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Drawful – Drawing game for lexical chunks – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. July 23, 2015. August 15, 2015. Drawful – Drawing game for lexical chunks. Adapting games – Drawful. This is an adaptation of a fun and inventive game that was released just last year. While the original game is played on a computer, this adaptation for the classroom is played on paper. This is a perfect game for revising chunks of language. In this example my class are revising phrasal verbs. One of the sentences containing the target language. The girl gave up on music.

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Wits and wagers – Error correction game – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. August 10, 2015. August 15, 2015. Wits and wagers – Error correction game. Adapting games – Wits and Wagers. In this example I have written four sentences based on errors my students made in the previous lesson:. I’m just yawned I’m so tiring. I’m not used to do parties every night like this. They went for the pub to try a new menu. I don’t know how it tasted like but they told it was different than the old menu. My four groups have written:. Once everything is clear and th...

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Adapting games – Apples to apples – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. March 11, 2015. June 7, 2015. Adapting games – Apples to apples. Is a word association game in which players match nouns and verb phrases to adjectives. Its popularity can be attributed to the funny combinations that come up and the simplicity of its design. I’ll be showing you how the game is played and how it can be improved and adapted for the TEFL classroom using custom made cards. There is a template to follow at the end so that you can make your own. It’s a quic...

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Adapting games – Dobble – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. March 4, 2015. September 14, 2015. Adapting games – Dobble. This post is looking at Dobble (or Spot It in America) and the application of its basic features as a teaching device, both for revising vocabulary and grammar. I’ll be showing you a simple, two page template so that you can adapt the game to your needs and syllabus. These other versions still have the games biggest flaw however, as they still have too many items of vocabulary at once. Dobble includes over 50 words...

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Comparatives with animals game – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. April 15, 2015. March 4, 2016. Comparatives with animals game. This is a quick and simple game to practice comparatives using animals. It was made for students aged 8-10 in a mixed ability class. Students play the game in pairs, sitting next to each other, and make sentences cooperatively. Click here to download the powerpoint document. Some of the comparatives, like ‘friendlier’ or ‘sadder’ don’t have obvious answers, but I think that children...If your students are famili...

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Prepositions of place game – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. April 29, 2015. August 15, 2015. Prepositions of place game. This is a game for revising prepositions of place with an elementary level class. The game is available for download at the bottom of the page and includes everything needed to print and play. Working in pairs, students are given the aquarium picture cards and asked to spread them out on the desk in front of them. They are then given the stack of description cards face down. When the students have finished they wi...

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Adaptable vocabulary revision game – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. Adaptable vocabulary revision game. Adapting games – Celebrities. The game is played over several rounds and the game changes for each round. This is an important part of the revision process as it ensures the vocabulary is considered multiple times in different contexts, which in turn helps the vocabulary become memorable. While the students are playing ensure you monitor carefully to check their understanding. This game is really a combin...

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E-moderating Reflections Week 5 | The VAKman cometh – Immersivities

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Ideas for creating immersive learning experiences. E-moderating Reflections Week 5 The VAKman cometh. Early on in this week’s module was a section on Learning Styles. This segment starts off with an exercise where you have to decide whether a statement is Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic (you know where this is going! Or would VAK proponents explain my preference away with the easy escape route that ‘you’re a mix of styles’ provides? Affordance 1: Ubiquitous learning. Provide shareable podcasts and vodca...

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Pictionary for lexical chunks – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games

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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. May 29, 2015. August 15, 2015. Pictionary for lexical chunks. Pictionary is a great game for some quick revision of vocabulary, and I’m sure most teachers use it in the classroom. However this adaptation seeks to go further, and allows for freer practice of lexical chunks in an extended form of the game. It aims to create memorable sentences and images to help students remember and accurately use new phrases. It can be used with groups of any level or age. Care to …? Casual...