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English powerpoint: VOCABULARY GUESSING GAME VOCABULARY GUESSING GAME

tHIS GAME IS CALLED HOTSEAT. ITīS A SPEAKING GAME AND ONE WHICH MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO OVERCOME THEIR SHYNESS AND JUST TALK. RULES: CREATE TEAMS OF 3 TO 5 STUDENTS. EACH TEAM HAS A TURN SEAT ONE STUDENT FROM ONE TEAM IN A CHAIR (KNOWN AS THE HOTSEAT) WITH HIS BACK TO THE POWERPOINT SCREEN. ITīS BETTER TO BLINDFOLD THE STUDENT IN THE HOTSEAT SO THAT HE CANNOT GUESS THE WORDS WHICH WILL APPEAR ON THE PPT SCREEN FROM VISUAL CLUES. THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE HOTSEAT STUDENTīS TEAM SIT IN CHAIRS FACING THE HOTSEAT STUDENT AND ALLOWING THEM TO SEE THE PPT SCREEN. THE REMAINING MEMBERS THEN CHOOSE A LETTER FROM A TO R (THE LETTERS FROM T TO Y ARE FOR TEACHERS IF THEY ARE PLAYING THE GAME TOO). CLICK ON THE SELECTED LETTER AND 8 WORDS WILL APPEAR ON THE PPT SCREEN. (IT SHOULD BE WORDS THE STUDENTS ARE FAMILIAR WITH). GIVE THE STUDENTS 10-20 SECONDS TO REVIEW THE EIGHT WORDS AND TRY TO THINK OF SOME CLUES AND THEN YELL "START" FROM THE TIME "START" IS YELLED THE TEAM HAS TWO MINUTES TO GIVE CLUES TO THEIR BLINDFOLDED TEAMMATE IN THE HOTSEAT SO THAT HE CAN GUESS WHAT THE WORDS ARE. THE CLUES MUST BE IN ENGLISH ONLY! NO PART OF THE CLUE GIVEN CAN INCLUDE ANY PART OF THE WORD THAT HAS TO BE GUESSED. (FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE WORD TO BE GUESSED IS SUPERMAN...THE TEAM MEMBERS CANNOT SAY "HE IS LIKE BATMAN.", BECAUSE THE WORD MAN IS FOUND IN SUPERMAN AND ALSO IN BATMAN. THEY CANNOT SAY THE WORD BEGINS WITH AN S. THEY CANNOT SAY THAT THE WORD HAS 8 LETTERS. iF THE WORD IS DUCK....THEY CANNOT QUACK LIKE A DUCK OR MAKE DUCK NOISES tHEY HAVE TO SPEAK eNGLISH AND DESCRIBE THE WORD SO THE HOTSEAT STUDENT CAN GUESS THE WORD. ONE POINT (OR YOU DECIDE HOW MANY POINTS) FOR EACH CORRECTLY GUESSED WORD.

 Level:intermediate
 Age: 11-17
 Format: PowerPoint
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Yaowaporn
Thailand

Thanks for sharing!!          posted by Yaowaporn 0


emulator
Egypt

Great Job! thanks          posted by emulator 0