This “game” is based upon my first successful game “Who Is Speaking” which used the speech accent archive.
In it, you listen to the 1st Article of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man spoken in a foreign language. Then you guess and see how you did. It’s quite the challenge! There are different versions based on length.
Give it a try or challenge your students.
Read all the “gems of EFL Classroom 2.0″ series, highlighted all this month.
A short post about a very BIG topic – Guessing. Along with prediction, it is a very important skill in any English teachers arsenal and one that can be used with great effectiveness.
Last night, was visiting this amazing site – Children’s Books Online: The Rosetta Project (to make a literary book I’m working on) I couldn’t help putting some things from it together to make the Riddle Book more presentable.
Students read and guess. You can even take the ppt and print out the pages and give to students who can do this in pairs/small groups. A nice activity and appealing for the “retro” photos!
Other ideas for guessing games? Just a few brief ones off the top of my head….
1. I’ve use the green board a lot with flashcards stuck on it. But just a big series of photos will do. Describe and students guess. Try these online photos of musicians!
2. Pictionary / Charades are BIG! Try Draw My Thing online…
3. Online. Why not reverse things and let students see if the computer can guess? Try AKINATOR! Also, for young learners – What’s In The Bag is great! Or how about, Where’s The Bell for phonics?
This picture puzzle maker is really simple! Just go to the webpage, upload a photo and then choose how small you want the pieces to be. (I recommend choosing the largest size, that is difficult enough).
I think this might be useful for “jigsaw” type activities with text. Get the text as a picture (take a pic with your camera). I’ve posted up an example below. It might also be fun to do this with pictures of students. A hat tip to member Ruth Ferris – I got this site off her Teacher Tools page.
You can also do the same thing in a powerpoint! Go to our resources and find the puzzle makers HERE and HERE. Photo2Text is also a cool tool. Example here.
I spent some time making a new word game. You could make your own too! I’m just testing this out and would like comments. Further editions will be “lower” in level and much easier. Just want to see how this might work as a concept. I got the idea from this blog I visited awhile back , Guess the wordle wiki – where they post one 3 wordles each week. Scroll down to hit “Today’s Wordle”
You can get a lot more Wordle games on EFL Classroom’s wordle page!
It’s called What’s the Wordle? Much like Guess the Google on our Games page. Students are shown a wordle [ a great place for you or your students to make word pictures!). They must guess the title or category/reference. they can make guesses then correct together. A correct guess gets a point or score as you see fit… Also points for adding to the vocabulary / wordle lists….Here is a worksheet but get the powerpoints with the “thinking song” to stimulate brainstorming and create atmosphere. Also , you can print the ppt slides as handouts (File – Print Preview – Print – page #- enter).
Here’s a large screen version.
Let me know what you think, comments appreciated. Now get What the Wordling!
