Halloween Janken. (Rock, scissors, paper.)

Halloween Janken. (Rock, scissors, paper.)
Subject	Any topic with vocabulary that you can give a recognisable action to.
Richard’s comments.	A popular game if you throw yourself into it. Make sure you get plenty of English into the actual game and importantly, the game play.
Group size:	Any group size as long as you have suitable support.
Team teaching game?	You really need someone to watch while you have your back turned.

 

Materials	Focus cards.
Game set up.	Simply go through the focus cards and identify the actions to be used for each word. Place the focus cards in front of the teacher. Go through the actions.

Playing rules.

Students have to guess the action and the word that is to be chosen by the teacher. The teacher turns around (Students shout ‘Turn around!’) and says a set phrase like “Happy Halloween” and counts down from five.  The students must line up behind the card the teacher will choose. Once the JT has checked that everyone is in place we go through the three actions and repeat: “Happy Halloween 1, 2, 3.”  Now the teacher does an action and shouts a word while turning to face the students. Students who matched win a point.  Review once more and repeat. Changing the vocabulary where possible. Repeat as required.

Variations.

Works for Christmas too. There are a number of other vocabulary sets it would work for. Feelings, colours, transport and animals being some examples.