Katie went through more of the book yesterday with the students. They also had a review game with vocabulary they had been learning. Katie divided them into two teams and had one person from each side face his or her team, with his or her back to the board. The teacher wrote one word at a time on the board. Each team had to explain or define that word to the person who couldn't see the board. We had some "policing" issues with students speaking Arabic or turning around accidentally. We let them look in their books and use ESL (not bilingual) dictionaries. The students were really engaged! Arab culture is very competitive, Katie told me, so it was easy to get the class into this game. I've had students play games like charades and pictionary before, but this game really worked for a speaking class. I might replace parts of the book with games the next time I teach this class, so this one was a good model for me.
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