Brain Box

In our focus on countries, I have found a game that helps us learn more about the country as well as practicing memory techniques.  Each box has a set of cards about the different English speaking countries.  On one side there are pictures and facts about the place.  For example, in the United States box, each card is a state.  Each card has information about the state.  On the back of each card are 8 questions that pertain to the information on the front of the card.  They are given a certain amount of time to look at the cards, then they have to turn them over so only the questions are visible.  Then they roll the dice to pick a question and answer without looking at the front of the cards. It is an excellent game for refining memory techniques.  The information about the countries is also very well organized, in small chunks, so that the students are not overwhelmed with too many facts at one time.  We will also use the cards as information sources for our country projects.
 

Story Dice

Hello all!  I thought I would post a couple of the different things we have been doing.  We are still working on the countries for the most part, but I do like to include games that practice vocabulary, story telling, and that encourage the children to use more than their everyday English.  One of these games uses a series of dice, 9 of them, that have pictures on each side.  You throw the dice and then make up a story using the pictures that come up.  We do this in several different combinations so that the students do not get too comfortable with any one combination.  Sometimes they do the story themselves, or we take turns, so that they are forced to The stories can be very interesting!