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GRAMMAR REVISION made FUN              – no prep activity

22/5/2015

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By the far the best and most versatile grammar revision game I have ever used is probably not new to many of you, but while many ‘tried and tested’ games I have borrowed from others have not always had the desired results, this one has had a 98% success rate* in my classes of all ages from children to adults.  NO PREPARATION is required, which for my extensive range of teaching (toddlers to adults – I know it’s crazy but I love the variety it brings in teaching methods despite the heavy preparation workload) is very welcome, but it is a MOST EFFECTIVE, HIGHLY FOCUSED form of FUN GRAMMAR REVISION.

It’s the

                                GRAMMAR AUCTION

1. Divide the class into groups of 2 – 3 students.

2. Write a column on the board listing the GROUPS and next to it a column assigning each of them a BUDGET of 1000 Euro.

3.Two more columns are for POINTS and C.P. (Correction Points)

4. Explain that the objective is spending money to buy correct sentences and thus win a point.  The group with the most points wins at the end of the lesson or time allocated to it.

5. Minimum bid is 50 euro, then 100, 150, 200, 250 to a max bid of 300 euro.  They are not allowed to jump to a higher sum without having bid the previous sum (no 300 euro directly!!).  THEY MUST SAY THE SUM OF THE BID THEMSELVES (you would be surprised and how much difficulty some students have in saying these numbers!).

6. Write a sentence on the board, have them bid and then write the remaining budget next to the group that bought the sentence.

7. Now ask, “Did they spend their money well or badly?”

8. Those who reply “badly” should motivate the mistake they see and try to correct it.  If they do they get a correction point.  If the sentence is correct the group that bought the sentence eventually gets their point.

9. I like to make the “simmer” before letting them know if the sentence is right or wrong so they end up making lots of hypotheses even when the sentence is right.

10. If the group that bought it suddenly realises there is a mistake I give them first option to correct it.

11.*The only time it gets out of hand is when the students bid just for the sake of it without even reading the sentence and not caring if it’s right or wrong.  I’ve very rarely had the situation, in which case the game stops as the objective has been defeated.

12. All in all it’s a very fun game with lots of useful revision without them even noticing it!        

Hope you have fun with it!
Susan
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patience okwechime link
22/5/2015 11:17:47 pm

I don't understand this game, I would like to know how is done. Do you write sentence on d boraed for the pupilS to read or what do you real do?

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Susan Brodar link
22/5/2015 11:30:34 pm

You write a sentence on the board with a grammar point you would like to revise (in the photograph I was revising GO TO) and the students decide if the sentence is correct or not. If it is correct they win a point when they buy it but if it is wrong they spend their money to buy it but they do not win a point. Any group which corrects the mistake wins a Correction Point.

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    My name is Susan Brodar, born in London into a multilingual family and brought up bilingual English / Italian.

    I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

    I continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year I married my Italian globetrotting companion in 1983 and we set up our home near Venice, Italy where we continue to live with our two teenaged children.

    Having taken my British High School-leaving ‘A’ Level exams in English, Italian, French & German I am completely fluent in all four languages and am taking a DELE certification in Spanish to complement them.

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