Form two teams. Write a letter on the board. The first student adds another one to make a new word from these two letters. He/she reads it. The next student adds a third letter etc. You can change the sequence of the letters.
An example:
Player 5: - -
The team of player 4 has won.
Spelling
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Here the student has to solve a task, e.g. translate a word. Two to three students play against each other depending how many of them sit at a bench. Usually, in Germany there are three rows. The teacher or a student asks: What is "today" in German? The student who says "heute" may go on to the next bench. It's the goal to get as far as possible. The person who managed to get to every bench is especially good.
Strengthening, repeating and checking words
Asking for phrases, whole sentence or grammatical structures
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Of course, the original game is altered. You need special cards for it. On the board you draw a square of five fields. In each field you put a letter which stands for five categories of words, e.g. grammatical categories. The class is divided into two groups. After mixing the cards the groups guess words alternately. Each group has three tries. If a word is right, the group gets a field. The winner is the group which has first conquered a line down, across or from one corner to another.
Strengthening, repeating and checking words
Changing the size of the square
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All the players sit in a circle. One person whispers a word to his/her neighbour so that it is very hard for the neighbour to understand the word. The neighbour tries to guess the word and adds another one. He/she whispers these two words to his/her neighbour and so on. Mostly, the result is very funny.
train concentration
the first player could whisper a full sentence
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The teacher sets the structure of the sentence, e.g. subject, verb, object, adverbials. Additionally, the tense of the verb should be set. All the students make a table with the parts of the sentences above. Now everybody starts with the subject, then they fold the sheets so that the word can't be seen and hand it on to the next. Thus the students continue till the last field of the table is filled in. Finally, the certainly funny sentences can be read.
strengthening syntax and tenses
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Every player writes a name of a famous person on a paper slip - for his or her neighbour. It shouldn't be too difficult for the neighbour to guess the name. Of course, you have to be careful that your neighbour can't see the name. Then stick the slip onto your neighbour's forehead with a bit of soft cream. One after the other asks questions about "him" or "herself". If the answer is yes, you can put one more questions. If not, it's the next person's turn. The people play till the last one has found out his or her name.
train concentration
Variation:
instead of a person you can use a thing or trade/profession
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You write on the board as many dots as there are letters in a word. The players guess one after the other. If the letter is right, you can have another one. If not you continue drawing the gallows.
strengthen alphabet
guess sentences, expressions or sayings
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Students in England know the game, but differently. In Germany you don't tell the first letter but the colour. You always start with: Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst, und das ist ...
learn and repeat the colours
you could use letters
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Every player gets a sheet of paper and makes a table with the followings columns - town/city, country, name, river, etc. The first player says go and another counts the alphabet up or downwards in mind till the first player says "Stop". Then the letter is announced and every player has one minute time or one player has found a word for every column. Then you get points for the words you have found. Don't forget to set the number of rounds before you start.
Here is a suggestion for giving points:
for the word that another player has - 10
strengthen spelling
alter the points to your needs
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It is the goal to describe the way out of the maze. You can do that together with the class. The player who can describe the way out correctly may say who is next or he/she can become a leader of a group. Then it can be played in groups. Of course, you need a condiderable pool of mazes.
Educational objective:
Strengthening and using words and phrases describing the way
measure the time or find the fastest writing it down
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The teacher or a player starts like this: Ich packe meinen Koffer und ich nehme folgendes mit ... The next player repeats the sentence and adds a new thing. The player who can't name all the things loses out. The winner is the one who is left.
train concentration and ability to keep things in mind
easier: show things
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The teacher, student or player pretends to be a person. He/she introduces him/herself. The other players must guess who he/she is. You can give hints.
strengthen putting questions
the player who is right can pretend to be a person
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The aim of the game is to make the player laugh. The candidate is questioned. The others ask him wh-questions. The player is only allowed to answer "Spaghetti", whatever the question is. The student whose question made the player laugh is the new candidate. It is a good idea to change the answers in order to practice other words.
An example:
etc.
practice pronounciation of especially difficult words
etc.
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Find two teams in a class. Every player gets a number and thinks of two words whose spelling he/she is sure of. Alternately the players of the opposite teams tell each other words and the other team has to spell the word. If the spelling is right the ball goes forward - maybe a quarter of the field. If the word is wrong the player of the opposite team gets the chance to spell it. If it's right the ball goes forward for his team, if not it stays where it is.
strengthen spelling of certain word
if the player can't spell his/her word the ball can go backward
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Form two groups. Every group thinks of a sentence. The number of words of the sentence must be the same as the number of members of a group. Then every member of the groups says one word. Thus the other group has to find out the whole sentence. (By Martin Jurczok)
practise pronunciation
Form more than two groups
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