Jenga for revision

Jenga is a fun game which students like playing so I jumped onto eBay and bought five minisets at a couple of pounds each. I numbered each block and made a revision sheet with questions to match each number. The idea is that when they push the block out, they check the number on the sheet and answer the question, talk for 1 minute on the topic, list 10 things you can buy in that shop, list 10 colours etc. When I didn't have much time, I displayed this powerpoint instead of making up questions. Students could also write questions for the other team to answer.

Read and toss

This was posted on Twitter which I thought would be a great starter. I'm going to use it this week by asking students to write their own sentences on strips of paper that they then screw up and throw. Maybe a word limit for each sentence so all teams have similar length sentences. The activity could then be a competition. 

Wordle

I really like wordle for displaying text. Here are 10 examples of how I've used it in the past. 

1. View for 30 secs - how many words can you remember? 

2. How many adjectives can you spot? 

3. Introduce new vocabulary. Find the 10 items of food etc. 

4. Speaking task where your partner ticks off words as you use them. How many can you use in 1 minute? Same for writing. How many can you include? 

5. I say the English and students shout out the colour of the French, German word.  

6. Introduce the vocab test words. Students could guess the words they need to learn for homework as a plenary.

7. Copy an article from a newspaper/ song lyrics and see the most common words used.

8. Give students a wordle in black and white and ask them to colour all nouns one colour, past verbs another etc.

9. Displays or labels

10. I can't remember who but someone on twitter kindly produced the wordle attached to this post which contains all the words from the GCSE listening papers. Students highlight the ones they know and learn the ones they don't. 

Lingo Bingo

Thanks to @langwitch for the idea! Students fold a piece of paper in half and cut into two. Draw a grid or fold both bits so you have a grid of 6 or 8 squares depending on how big you want it on both pieces of paper. Number each box 1-6 or 1-8 on both and put one of the grids to one side. On one grid write phrases practising vocabulary or a grammar point. Cut the grid into 6 or 8 little squares.

Now students work in pairs where one partner will say a number and the other asks 'Comment dit-on... en anglais?' If they get it right they can place the card onto the corresponding number on their grid. The aim is to get a row or a full house. They can then swap or move around the classroom playing other grids.