GAME OF THE WEEK: RPS Challenge
In 5 minutes practice any target language with students aged 5-100. All you need are some markers and students. It’s a great warm-up activity or review activity.
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February 5th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I tried the RPS Challenge yesterday with my preschool/kindergarten class (5-6 year olds) and it was FABULOUS!! The kids loved being able to play their favorite game in the middle of a lesson.
I started with letting them just play RPS, using “Ready, Set, 1,2 3″, and they really got into it. Then I brought in the pattern we’ve been practicing, “How are you?” and “I’m …” I gave each kid a few flashcards of feelings, and they had to answer with one of their cards. I was really impressed that they all remembered their expressions (tired, sad, good, ok, hungry etc). The ‘loser’ had to pass over one of his cards.
In the end we practiced counting as we counted how many cards each kid had left when we stopped. It was really great because my shiest girl, who is usually in tears at the end of a lesson because she can’t keep up with the others, had the second highest number of cards and was really happy!
Thanks!!