The 5 Seconds Game to revise Vocabulary

 

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I have thought of two different activities to implement two of the ideas exposed by Paul Seligson: The 5 Seconds Game to revise Vocabulary Good lessons begin with revision. Revising what was learnt in the previous lesson takes five minutes, but honestly it makes a big difference. The little game below takes exactly that: 5 minutes to prepare. This is a fun little activity to revise vocabulary, collocations…etc about any topic and it is called “The 5 seconds game”. Before the class: Prepare a set of 7-10 small questions for each pair. They need to be quick questions. Have a look at my questions below. They are all dealing with “Education”. Team A questions

1. What do you call the school where you study and sleep? 2. What preposition does “committed” collocate with? 3. How do you pronounce “native”? 4. Can you give me a synonym for “ obligatory? 5. What’s the opposite of a “state school”? 6. Which is correct “do your homework” or “make your homework”? 7. Another way of saying “ to relax” 8. “to assign” is a verb, what’s the noun? Team B questions

1. What do you call the school which trains students for employment? 2. Which is correct “do an exam” or “make an exam”? 3. When you pass an exam with high marks, you can say that you pass it with flying….? 4. What do you call the money that you pay to attend a school? 5. How do you pronounce the word “machine”? 6. What preposition do you use with the verb ”keep” to mean “to go as fast as”? 7. “To rehearse” is a verb, what’s the noun? 8. What preposition does “ hopeless” collocate with? In class: - Ask students to choose a partner. After pairing up, each pair become a team and play against another team. So, we will have Team A and Team B ( 4 students) - Tell teams you will ask each team X questions. After each question, they will have 5 seconds to think and when the bell rings, they will have to give the answer to the question at the same time. If the answer is the same and it is correct and they have answered at exactly the same time, they will score 1 point - Say Team A starts. Ask them to sit facing each other and in clear view of Team B who will be listening to their answers very attentively and keeping score of the points they get. - Ask the first question, mentally count 5 seconds, ring a bell or use any other device that makes noise and ask the two members of Team A to give the answer at exactly the same time. Team B will be in charge of making sure the rules are followed to the letter. - Continue in the same way until the X questions have been answered. - To reinforce, ask the questions again, but this time to the whole class. - Repeat procedure for Team B with X new questions VARIATION: In another group, ask students to work in pairs, competing against each other and not against another pair. It also works very well, probably better.