Octopus game
Vocabulary: octopus, fish, freeze, "swim across".
Materials: fish flashcard, octopus flashcard.
This is a game I found while browsing the internet. I find it works especially well with rowdy classes as they really get into the game. This game does not require kids to use a great deal of English nor does it even require every child to speak. The focus with this game is to get the kids to enjoy their English time.
At the start of the lesson I show the class the flashcards and drill the words fish and octopus. Then I draw a picture of one of the gym's basketball courts, specifically the outside lines and the center circle.
One student is chosen as the octopus and the rest are fish. The fish line up on one end of the court. The octopus stands in the center circle. When the octopus shouts "swim across", the group attempts to pass to the other end of the court. The octopus has a soft volleyball and attempts to tag or throw and hit the fish with the ball. Once a fish has been hit by the ball, they are frozen to the spot and become an octopus tentacle. On future rounds, the tentacles try to touch fish as they run past. If touched they too become octopus tentacles. The game ends when there is only one fish left. This fish becomes the octopus for the next round.
The octopus is the only one who is allowed to throw the ball.
To speed things up we sometimes also make the slowest fish to cross also become an octopus tentacle.
This game can last for a whole 45 minute lesson.
30.11.2009. 18:34
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