Author Topic: Funglish (Read 4557 times)

reddyrnot1985 · « **on:** March 04, 2013, 05:29:30 PM »

I played a version of the game Funglish with my Middle school students.

I made large laminated flashcards of all the words you can see on the Ellen Funglish board. I'll attach a document with the word list in a second.

Before class I made a chart on the white board that had three columns labled "definitely, kind of, and not.

I placed all of the cards on the ground in front of the whiteboard.

Then I showed them this Ellen video.

How I played the game was by dividing the class into four teams. Then one student would come to the front of the class. After turning off the overhead projector I would show the one student one slide from a hot seat ppt I found on here. that student would then pick words from the floor and place them in the "definitely, not, kind of " categories to describe the person or thing in the ppt image. They secured the flashcards with one of those white board magnet thingys. The rest of the class had to guess what was being described. The team that guessed first got one point.

It worked well for my class. Let me know if you have any questions or if you can suggest any modifications.

Many thanks to the original hotseat ppt maker!!

Alex Crawford · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2013, 03:32:37 PM »

Brilliant!!!

This is so good! My students will love this, I will let you know if it needs any modifications such as words which should be included. I imagine it can be quite a trial and error game that improves over time.

Thanks for the hot seat PPT.

ohmymyesl · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2013, 04:42:32 PM »

I changed this up a bit and added some more words, but I have been using with my students and they love it. It takes a bit for them to get the concept but, all in all, they are having a blast with it.

I printed out the words and used magnets to stick them to my marker board. This way they could move it around like Ellen did on her show. I had them watch the video after I explained and they really enjoyed it. One thing I also did was I turned off my touch screen tv and had the student come over to my monitor to see the picture; the students were randomly called by student number.

Thanks for sharing this, it's an absolute blast.

Nivea · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2013, 12:57:19 PM »

My MS girls liked it too. Used it in an afterschool class. But I set it up like Ellen and found that some of my shorter kids had a bit of trouble reaching up to put the words under the category at the top.

scottab123 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2013, 06:01:21 PM »

Love this! Thanks!

philby1985 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2013, 12:27:07 AM »

This looks like a great game, but I am curious to know how big your class is?

I can't imagine it working well with my 32 students crammed into my classroom.

tjms · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2013, 11:22:16 PM »

It looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!

jjkim693862 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2013, 04:05:46 PM »

Thank you for sharing. It is very useful to practice speaking.

imoyou · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2013, 06:00:32 PM »

This looks awesome!!!! I'm definitely gonna use this with my kids. Thank you for posting this up!!!

garden112 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2013, 07:53:18 PM »

oh it will be funfun

lauranederhoff · « **Reply #10 on:** July 11, 2013, 03:53:04 PM »

I formatted the list so it just needs to be printed off and laminated. For the categories I did "A lot" "A little" and "Not at all". I thought that would be easier than Ellen's. It's easy enough to change though if you want something else. I added pictures for prickly and stripy in case the students don't know this one.

ValenciaPilgrim · « **Reply #11 on:** July 11, 2013, 04:21:27 PM »

I love love LOVE this idea, especially since it's really hard to get my girls away from using Korean when they play the hotseat game. But I'm wondering, can you really use these few descriptive words and get the kids to guess nouns like "sky diving" or "England" or "Ship" (pictures from the hot seat ppt)?

gilbert.a.h · « **Reply #12 on:** July 11, 2013, 05:21:28 PM »

I've done this with middle and high school students, and so far it has been successful, but you have to make 100% sure that they can read the words you write. My middle school students couldn't read words like "Bear," "Seoul," and "hanbok." A lot of them couldn't read anything I wrote, and I used extremely easy words. Of course, I didn't use any resources provided. I only used my own words and just figured how to make it into a game from the video clip, but it has been a lot of fun.

If you have the option, make sure to color code your cards. I couldn't because my school doesn't have those kinds of supplies.

Give it a try! It was really fun, and you can use it probably twice a semester with the same class. Just make sure to change out the mystery words.

maryellenknob · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2013, 02:19:30 PM »

This will definitely be helpful for those post-exam weeks! Thank you for sharing!!

Teacherwalters · « **Reply #14 on:** September 06, 2013, 03:57:35 PM »

The hot seat power point game is the easiest one I can use. I can use that to engage my students into the game. It is goog for post exam periods as well as the beginning of the 2nd semester, even when palling at the last minute.

fandeath37 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 06, 2013, 05:10:19 PM »

Anyone else think that words like "Funglish" are actually detrimental to those learning English? Why does English HAVE to be fun? I've never seen a Korefun class or a Japfunese class. Games are a great teaching tool, but this notion that English has to be fun is nonsense.

"Not fun" is an excuse used by the lazy and simple-minded.

BloosCorn · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2013, 05:07:23 PM »

Quote from: fandeath37 on September 06, 2013, 05:10:19 PM

Anyone else think that words like "Funglish" are actually detrimental to those learning English? Why does English HAVE to be fun? I've never seen a Korefun class or a Japfunese class. Games are a great teaching tool, but this notion that English has to be fun is nonsense.

"Not fun" is an excuse used by the lazy and simple-minded.

No. Just... no.

TheTromboner · « **Reply #17 on:** September 09, 2013, 05:28:34 PM »

Quote from: fandeath37 on September 06, 2013, 05:10:19 PM

Anyone else think that words like "Funglish" are actually detrimental to those learning English? Why does English HAVE to be fun? I've never seen a Korefun class or a Japfunese class. Games are a great teaching tool, but this notion that English has to be fun is nonsense.

"Not fun" is an excuse used by the lazy and simple-minded.

Learning English doesn't NEED to be fun. However, my job is to get the kids speaking and using English. They do lots of not fun learning English with their Korean teachers. I want them to open their damn mouths, and I want them to realize that speaking in another language can be rewarding. Fun topics and games are a great way to do that. What's the point of learning a language if you can't speak it and hate speaking it because you never enjoy it?

cccosmonaut · « **Reply #18 on:** September 09, 2013, 10:03:41 PM »

Quote from: TheTromboner on September 09, 2013, 05:28:34 PM

Quote from: fandeath37 on September 06, 2013, 05:10:19 PM
Anyone else think that words like "Funglish" are actually detrimental to those learning English? Why does English HAVE to be fun? I've never seen a Korefun class or a Japfunese class. Games are a great teaching tool, but this notion that English has to be fun is nonsense.

"Not fun" is an excuse used by the lazy and simple-minded.

Learning English doesn't NEED to be fun. However, my job is to get the kids speaking and using English. They do lots of not fun learning English with their Korean teachers. I want them to open their damn mouths, and I want them to realize that speaking in another language can be rewarding. Fun topics and games are a great way to do that. What's the point of learning a language if you can't speak it and hate speaking it because you never enjoy it?

agree completely with this. i've taken several foreign language classes, and i remember the most from the ones that incorporated fun activities and helpful, interesting topics. no one ever said english had to be fun in this thread - they provided a classroom game based off of another game named funglish.

Wintermute · « **Reply #19 on:** September 09, 2013, 11:17:22 PM »

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No. Just... no.

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Learning English doesn't NEED to be fun. However, my job is to get the kids speaking and using English. They do lots of not fun learning English with their Korean teachers. I want them to open their damn mouths, and I want them to realize that speaking in another language can be rewarding. Fun topics and games are a great way to do that. What's the point of learning a language if you can't speak it and hate speaking it because you never enjoy it?

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agree completely with this. i've taken several foreign language classes, and i remember the most from the ones that incorporated fun activities and helpful, interesting topics. no one ever said english had to be fun in this thread - they provided a classroom game based off of another game named funglish.

I think the 3 of you mayyy have missed the point of fandeaths post a wee bit. however he did not expand too deeply on the topic so what do I know, but it seems like he agrees with you. his words not mine, sounds like he thinks having english class be fun is great and should happen, but he is opposed to this idea that it has to be fun, and using setup words like "funglish" its counter productive in some regards.

however maybe you guys are right and he hates fun time. I'm basing purely off of 2 of the 3 sentences he wrote.

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Anyone else think that words like "Funglish" are actually detrimental to those learning English?

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Games are a great teaching tool, but this notion that English has to be fun is nonsense.

and then this is interesting

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"Not fun" is an excuse used by the lazy and simple-minded.

I guess he is saying that any student of any age who claims that english class is not fun, are people who don't actually want to study and work and just go for the fun times. And that this is caused by training are kids at a young age that English has to be fun.

aaaanywho, just trying to interpret some guys vague response. I have no idea what he meant, and i have no idea what i'm talking about.

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