High School - All Stand Alone Games

[millionsknives]

Here is my take on a question game I've seen floating around on other boards.
It's a question war that is played similar to risk.  Since the Arab spring has been big news this game gives me an excuse to talk about it with my students.  I start by drawing a map of the middle east and north Africa and labeling all of the countries.  When the students arrive I divide the class into two teams, rebels and dictators. To play the game I read an answer to a question, e.g. "I feel fine."  The first team to make a grammatically correct question that would elicit the answer, "I feel fine," can choose which country they would like to take over.  So the first team to make a question like, "How do you feel?" or "Are you okay?"  Can choose which country they take over. 
After a team has taken over its first country it can only expand by going to connected countries.  So a team can't take Saudi Arabia one turn then take Libya in the next turn. 
If one team wants to challenge the other team for a country the defending team has to make a statement that the opposing team must make a question for.  To make this more challenging I only give the opposing team 30 seconds to make their question. 
The goal is to take over all of the countries on the board.  So this game can go on for awhile. 

[Home.Slice]

I don't know if this game has been posted already but its goes like this. I like using this as an Ice breaker game for the very first day of class.

Game name: The Toilet Paper Game

Rules are simple:

Group students in pairs or in trios. Have a roll of toilet paper and tell each student to take any amount of squares (for lower levels I recommend 3-5 squares) they want.  Each square represents one fact they must present to the class about their partner.

I teach greeting phrases (Hi, my name is.... This is my friend...) that everyone must say when they speak infront of the class. After this basic introductory greeting they are to give facts about their friend/partner ( He/she likes... He/she does not like... he/she has....) to the students.

Most students will not understand this at first, so you will have to ask someone to come up to front to demonstrate your concepts. I use words that every student will know like: food, pizza, chocolate, Hello Kitty, chicken, long hair, tall, small, etc... I demonstrate with the amount of squares that the volunteered student has.

After demonstrating, I proceed to write down these basic phrases and get the class to repeat them. From here i give about 10-15 mins to allow the students to be creative and start writing down ideas. Its best to continually check up on every student for idea suggestions and any help they may have.

Once everyone is near complete, I tell the class they have 1 min left. After the minute, I ask for a group to volunteer first. If no one volunteers, then choose one. When they present, help correct phonetics and incorrect grammar. Do not demean the students as they are at a very vulnerable moment. Once the group has finished presenting, I get them to stay up and let them choose the next group who goes next. This makes it very entertaining for all the students as you allow them to have just a little bit of power. This games brings lots of fun and laughs for everyone, teacher included!

Any questions, please ask.

Enjoy!

[Jameskenpo]

I need games. lots of stand alone games. I really prefer the ones where I can tweek the game ot the lesson at hand. I am forced to use the book.

[wpd]

This is a simple PPT of over 200 images. One student sits with his/her back away from the t.v. His/Her teammates describe the images using only English.  Once the student has guessed the image, click to the next image. No gestures or Korean is allowed. Each round is played for 3 minutes and teams can pass on 3 images per round. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Encourage students to give good descriptive clues to help their teammate who is guessing.

[JenniferTeacher]

Speed Quiz!
These are 2 powerpoint presentations which have 1 celebrity or movie title on each slide. 


All you have to do is get them in groups of 6 or so and get them to make team names and write them on the board.  Put 2 chairs at the front of the class facing away from the screen and have them rotate with their group of 6 after each answer.  The team has to use hints like "Korean solo singer"  or "he was in the movie Mission Impossible."  You have to set a timer (on any kids' cell phone) and give each team 2 minutes to play.  One point for each correct answer.

For your 50 minute class, you could tweak it to end up using 1 powerpoint for each class.  I used both in a single class but didn't finish the second ppt.  My setup was 4 groups of 4-6 students in each.

The instructions are on second or third slide of each powerpoint.  These are 2 'separate' files.  In a high school class, I typically had to start the second file as well during 1 class.

I can't remember the teacher's name, but he sent me these Speed Quizzes.  I think he is a teacher trainer, in the EPIK program.

This one takes no prep and it's tons of fun.  It just takes a little bit of practice and thought with the slides and rotation to execute accurately.

Enjoy!

Just played this with my students, they loved it!!!! Thanks a million ^^

[Peadar Bearla]

Not sure if this is up here but I played Taboo with my class and it worked very well. Obviously you can change it in many ways to make it accessible for your students. I have included a lesson plan for it and a brief powerpoint explaining some rules and giving tips for describing.

[Peadar Bearla]

Used the hexagon game in class myself and it worked great. I had students play each other in small teams. Thanks