One of the funniest things i ever did with the students at my last school was the "Harry Potter Game". I made some wands for the Voldemorts and drew scars (face paint) on the Harrys. I played along too, mainly to make sure they were speaking English. I swapped around who was Voldemort and who was Harry a few times. If i heard the students not speak English or speak Korean they would have to sit out until the following round (unless they were really low level.
I nicked the idea from the Genki English:
"The Harry Potter Game is based on Candlesticks or Stuck in the Mud.
When I did this game with my students, I taught them the question/answer set of "What are you doing?" "I'm dancing/jumping/cooking/playing soccer etc", but other teachers who have played the Harry Potter Game said it worked with animal or action vocab too.
(Perhaps in a previous class) teach the vocab (try the Warm Up Game) . Get them motivated, by saying we're gonna play the Harry Potter Game!
1. On the day, roll newspaper into wands and go outside.
2. Divide the class, give wands to 1/3 and they become Voldemort (sorry for mentioning his name).
3. The remaining wandless 2/3s are Harry Potter.
4. Give the Harry Potters a 10-second head start then let the Voldemorts loose.
5. When a Voldemort catches a Harry Potter, they wave their wand and shout an instruction at Harry eg jump/dance. Harry Potter then has to do that action in the same spot until they are saved.
5. The spell is broken when a FREE Harry Potter comes along and asks "What are you doing?" and the caught Harry Potter replies "I'm jumping/dancing". With that complete, Harry Potter is now free and the world is okay again!
We swapped over the Voldemorts and Harrys several times within a lesson and the kids do get quite tired, but they love it and request it often!
You can extend the target vocab by teaching them wand, wizard etc, plus I also taught the captured Harrys to call out 'Help me Harry' to draw attention to themselves.
But be warned if you play with kids you will become a target for the entire Voldemort population, and will find yourself either jumping or spinning for the entire lesson. But I guess at least you'll burn off lunch that day!"
It was a lot of fun. My school was small last year, and i had a class of 23 or , thus it was pretty easy to convince the teacher to let us use the school hall. This year i have 5 classes of 32 so i might need to work a little harder on the convicing and have just have 16 students playing at one time.