Another activity I have done is Wordfind but I also made it into a game.
1) Give each pair/group a wordfind using words covered during the year (or on the topic of winter or ....).
2) Teacher chooses a word and calls it out. Then counts down (fairly slowly) from about 10. .
3) Group/pair race to find the word. First one to find it circles it and raises their hand.
4) First correct team to find it gets a bonus point.
5) All correct teams get a point.
Starter Scrabble
Materials - a 'scrabble' board with a list of words used during the year at the bottom for each group
1) Students play in groups of 3-4.
2) Student 1 chooses a word, reads it in English, then Korean meaning, then use it in a sentence. Write it on the board one letter in each square. [Cross out the word you used. Each word can only be used once.]
3) Student 2 chooses a word that will connect (has a letter in common with) the previous word (English, Korean, sentence) and write it on the board.
4) Student 3 chooses a word that has a letter in common with one of the words on the board. (English, Korean, sentence. And write it)
5) Take turns writing a word on the board.
6) Score one point for each letter you use. If you write a letter on the * you get 2 points. [Only 1 point if you use a * that is already on the board.]
OR Giving one point for each letter you write in (2 points if the letter is on an *) gives higher scores and encourages students to use the longer words.
7) Words can be down or across not diagonal. Decide before playing if you will allow words to be spelt backwards (personally I would not do this but I didn't specify when the students played and let them do it)
Traditionally Crosswords and Scrabble (a game) use uppercase letters.
[I didn't worry too much if the words were adjacent to other words. It was quite a slow game but the students seemed to quite enjoy it - looking for the words)
At the end of the time I asked who the winners were. I also collected the sheets and counted how many words (or how many letters) were used to determine the winning team.
The attached files were using a Christmas theme but it is easily adapted to any theme - just change the words.
