Reading through my blogs that I subscribe to, I came across a blog by Martina Bex where she talked about Movie Talk. I was kind of scanning through it and looking for target vocabulary that I could use for the movie clip she references when I stumbled across an amazing "game" that Martina took from Kristin Duncan who took it from Carmen Andrew-Sanchez. And I tried it yesterday!
So, instead of using a new reading (which would be ideal), I typed up some of the facts we had learned about a student in class through La Personne Spéciale (Bryce Hedstrom's first unit of teaching) and we read through them. Then, students sat in pairs with a pencil between them. I would say a true or false statement about that student (only those facts that were typed up because I wanted them to look and re-read if they got confused). If the statement was true, students raced to grab the pencil and the student with the pencil earned a point. If the statement was false and the student touched the pencil, they lost a point. I had so much fun tricking my students with this. For example, I have a student who can imitate Barry Gibbs (how old are these kids?!). So for one of her phrases, I said, Suzie can imitate Barrrrrrrrack Obama! The groans and investment from the kids was awesome.
Here is a short video I took of one of my classes playing. It wasn't as exciting because I didn't trick them, but you can see how it works. The kids were very happy to be filmed, as you can see :)
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