Today I'm giving you a fun drilling game called Wobble. Hi my name is Jema Perry
and welcome to Mooncake, ESL teaching made easy. If you're new here you need to
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the world you're teaching. Vocab review, something that's really important to
incorporate into our ESL lessons. Without review, words literally go in one ear and
out the other and all that hard work we do during class goes out the window. So
we need to review and we need to find fun ways to do it. Because let's face it
drilling is boring. So today I'm going to explain a fun and easy drilling game
that you can try in your class tomorrow. So without further ado let's get
straight into it with today's game, Wobble. For this game all you gonna need
are some flashcards of the vocabulary you'd like to practice. To get started your
going to position the class in a semi-circle with you the teacher in the
middle. Next, you're going to split the class into two teams and give each team
a fun team name. Now depending on students level you can actually practice
some reading here by writing the team name on the board and having students
read it out loud. For example I might name one team team bus and one team team
sun and have them read those words out loud. Next you're going to ask one student from
Team A to come to the middle. You're going to tell that student to stand nice
and tall and very, very still no matter what they can't wobble. In fact we're
gonna have the whole class chant together. Stand nice and tall but don't
wobble. Stand nice and tall but don't wobble. This helps to keep everybody
engaged and it's part of our classroom management strategy. If you want more
information or classroom management you can check out my video on classroom
management linked below. Next you're going to introduce a flashcard to the
whole class and have them tell you what it is using a sentence if
appropriate. The whole class are going to repeat that word or sentence three times
and then you're going to take that flashcard and balance it on the head of
the student in the middle. Next, you can introduce another flashcard the whole
class are going to repeat that word or sentence three times any once again
you're going to take that flashcard and balance it on the head of the student
in the middle. Keep going again and again until that student in the middle starts to
wobble and those cards fall off. The number of cards the student was able to
balance before they wobbled and they fell off is the number of points they
score for their team. Next you're gonna ask one student from Team B to come to
the middle and go again. Keep going until everyone has had a turn. Add up the
points at the end and see which team is the winner. Now as I mentioned you can
adjust this game and make it more challenging by having students use
sentences instead of just repeating back the words. However, if your students are
at that stage where they need word repetition it's really important that
we're using TPR and chants to help them remember. So make sure that you're
putting an action and some rhythm to each of the new words. If you're not sure
how to use TPR in the classroom you can check out my video on TPR linked below. So
there you have it, wobbles a fun and easy drilling game that will have your
students speaking English quickly. If you like this video let me know by
commenting with the word helpful in the comments below and by sharing with your
fellow teachers. If you're looking for more fun ESL games you can check out
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