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Offline whitleybug

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Need help with a personality game idea
« on: March 07, 2014, 11:34:24 AM »
The topic for the next few classes is "personality." So far I've taught them the vocabulary and basic grammar (I am honest. You are a very kind person. He is funny and outgoing. She is smart but vain... etc.) and now I'd like to do some sort of activity with them.  My students are very low level and mostly boys.  I have an idea floating around in my head but I'm struggling with whether or not  it will be fun for my students.  I would appreciate some input.
The idea:
Since all of the students have seen Frozen and the characters have some interesting personalities, I'm thinking of dividing the students into groups and giving each group a character.  They have to describe that character on a piece of paper and then return it to me.  Then I'll mix up the descriptions and read them aloud and have the students try to match the personality with the correct character.  The teams that get it correct each get a point.  The team that made the description gets an extra point for each other team that guesses correctly.

What do you guys think?

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Re: Need help with a personality game idea
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2014, 11:45:07 AM »
Sounds good to me! You could probably flip it around and do it the other way around. Give the groups a few sentences and they have to narrow down which character it is describing.

You could also possibly make it into a listening activity by speaking out loud the sentences one at a time and the groups try to match them to the right characters

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Re: Need help with a personality game idea
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2014, 12:04:41 PM »
I have some personality tests posted under the title "4 personality lessons". They have gone over pretty well at my school.
http://www.waygook.org/index.php/topic,64208.0.html

I’m also interested in what you come up with.
I’ve thought about using those, “what character are you" quizzes that are always floating around on Facebook.
« Last Edit: March 07, 2014, 12:12:22 PM by tsarotu »

Offline aklimkewicz

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Re: Need help with a personality game idea
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2014, 12:23:28 PM »
I'm about to run the Pig Personality Test in my very next class. I'll let you know how it goes!
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Offline bird212

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Re: Need help with a personality game idea
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2014, 12:33:53 PM »
Yea, try some personality quizzes.  There are plenty of simple ones that involve giving them instructions and drawing something.
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Offline johnny russian

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Re: Need help with a personality game idea
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2014, 12:53:41 PM »
The characters idea sounds good. But how about getting the students to describe the personality of someone they know in class. then collect the descriptions, read them out, and the other students must try and guess who it is. if you have whiteboards in class get them to write down the name of who they think it is, in their teams. each team gets 1 point if they guess correctly. or to make it more exciting give them 3 guesses. if they get it right on the first try - 3 points - second try, they get 2 points, 3rd try they get 1 point.

to increase student speaking time what you could also do is instead of reading out the descriptions yourself, get 1 student from each team to read them. this means that that team won't get a point that round as they'll know who the student is since their name will be on it, but since 1 person from each team is reading it means that each team will go 1 round without a chance at points so it'll even out at the end. just make sure that you do as many rounds as there are teams, e.g., if you have 5 teams do 5 rounds, 6 teams means that the descriptions for 6 students get read out, etc.

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