Hey guys!
Today
I am going to talk about another very interesting game that the teachers of the
University of Arkansas applied to us on the first day and I think it will be
very nice and useful to my students in Brazil.
The
first option was like this: in a big circle, the teacher put a post it on the
floor in front of each person in the circle. The person in the middle asked the
others a question with have you ever. If the answer was yes, you had to move
around and find another spot, but you couldn’t be just next to your previous
spot, the objective was to move around the room.
The
second part was more communicative: the teachers reduced the post its to half
and separate the students in pairs, the pair in the middle had to talk about an
experience that both of them have already done. After that they asked the
others, if the answer was yes, both had to move around, but before that had to discuss the option with
each other. They could only move if both have already done.
As
I said, both games were very fun. As an active person, I love to move around,
but specially the second one, where the students have to talk and decide
together if they have to move, it was a very short opportunity to promote
interaction with a topic so abstract to Brazilians, because we do not have a similar
tense like present perfect in Portuguese.
We
used the game to practice have you ever but we can apply it for other
topics too, this was another reason why I liked the game and will try to use it
with my students in Brazil.
I
will let you know when I do it back to Brazil.
See ya!
