in today's video I'm gonna show you five interactive Google oh wow I love Google
slides how do you always end up in my videos Oh dr. hem pill I'm everywhere
these five interactive Google slide games can be used in an online meeting
or you can send them directly to your students and it really take your lessons
up a notch and get your students practicing those essential English
language skills the first game that I'm gonna show you how to play is called
guess what if you have ever played the game guess who then you are very
familiar with guess what and guess what is basically a game where you are trying
to guess your opponents mystery word by asking them a series of yes-or-no
questions and the beauty of guess what is that you can edit it so you don't
have to use the vocabulary words and you can it's also linked with Quizlet so
that you can have your students practicing the words so they were
familiar with with it before actually playing the game and once your students
are ready to play the game they are going to choose whichever Oh cowboy word
as you can see here so let's pretend that I'm one of the opponent so for
example I have set aside this word and my opponent has to guess that word and
as I'm asking them questions based on the word that they have set aside I can
the students can literally drag those words off of there so that they can
eliminate those and know that that is not their secret word and they're doing
the same thing when they're trying to guess my word so that's the beauty of it
and you can have to just work in teams or you can have students play one-on-one
however which way you would like to set up the game is completely up to you I am
going to link in the cards above as well as in the description below a video that
I did in the past on how to play this really fun
interactive game game number two is called mystery reveal joy reveal is a
really fun template that you can edit it and it can be used as the beginning of
your lesson to get students excited about the topic you can use it for a
practice on there or you can have it in the middle of the
class as a game to record you can have it at the end of the class to review
answers but essentially what it is is that when you use the magnifying glass
and you move it over the square it reveals whatever is it's hiding so in
order for this to work when you're setting it up for your students you can
go in and you can edit it as you can see I'm doing here so that it can reveal a
particular answer and everything on the box everything within each box is can be
changed you don't have it's not set to be a specific way and what's really nice
is that you or your students can move the magnifying glass I really suggest
that you have the students do that if you're using a program like zoom you can
actually share green with your students and then you can also give them the
ability to be able to move the magnifying glass even though you're in a
zoom session just by sharing and allowing them to share their screen with
you game number three and probably my most favorite game out of all of these
is called Google scavenger hunt the first thing you do when you open up this
document is you're going to make a copy of it and send it to your students and
then what your students our mission is going to be is to change each of these
slides to whatever or add to whatever it's asking you to do slide number one
is asking them to change that particular slide to a beach scene and all they have
to do is change the background and once they go into the background option it's
gonna give them the ability to search for different images on there already
saved on their computer hard drive or they can actually do a Google search
which I usually do very many times when I'm trying to add certain images in my
presentations and every single slide ask them to do something different but the
beauty of this particular game or activity is that you can connect it to
whatever you are teaching and since each slide is editable you can change the
directions you can change the theme you can make the slide shorter and longer
maybe you just want to have them fine things or four things or whatever so
they get to also express their creativity because in this particular
slide they get to choose the PowerPoint background or Google slide background
design that they desire and they have to give a reason why they chose that so
it's really nice because it just adds that ability to express themselves the
third slide ask them to use a Venn diagram where they're comparing
contrasting the Atlantic Ocean versus the Pacific Ocean and once again
embedded within Google slides they have the ability to use the web to search for
additional information if they need to if they're stumped and don't know
offhand what are the differences between and the similarities between the Pacific
and the Atlantic Ocean game number four if the classic game of boggle this
classic game of boggle comes with instructions on the very first page and
what I like about I said it does have an example on the first page and once they
go to the second page they can start playing the game and you as the teacher
you can actually change the game around and edit every single letter so that if
you are connecting the letters to a particular topic that you're teaching
your students you can do that as well then you're going to instruct your
students that they can create lines by going into the menu option and they have
a number of different options that they can choose from but I always tell them
to use the squiggly line only because it seems to be the one that's less
frustrating they don't have to worry about making those perfect lines and
going back in they can make one line in one straight shot and then turn it into
you and then you can correct it to make sure they have found all the appropriate
letters which is your favorite game to share digitally with your students make
sure to comment in the comment section below and I might feature your comment
in a future video and last but certainly not least is game number five for all of
you gameshow fans is the game of Jeopardy if you have played jeopardy
with your students you know how much it can be a lot of fun and in this version
of jeopardy it has specific editing instructions so that you know exactly
what to do for each page this particular version of Jeopardy is
set up to have five different topics and as you're preparing this game for your
students who will go into every single heading and edit it for the specific
topic that you're covering with your students I noticed that when I went into
edit it would default to black so I'm pretty sure that there are some settings
that you can default it so that it goes to white so that it pops out and
students can see it but I just did the quickest route and I just highlighted it
and changed it to white as you go through each page it does go in order so
for example it would do topic 1 and the 100 dollar question there you would
right type in the question that is the answer that your student will be giving
as in jeopardy is a styled game where the answer is actually a question so you
can type that in once you type that in you can go on to your next page and put
in the actual answer which is what you actually give to your students and you
don't have to worry about the order in which the game will flow because it will
automatically link it to the correct pages so in other words as you're typing
and you'll notice it on the bottom pan right of the screen it will say like
click to see answer for example so you would click there and then if you want
to go back to the Jeopardy board you can and it keeps track of what answers your
students got correct and incorrect and a really nice feature of this particular
Jeopardy game that I haven't seen in others is that they have a final
Jeopardy round so that you can find who is going to be the final winner of the
game which is really a great feature if you're looking for more ways to make
your games interactive with your students I highly recommend that you
check out these dice cubes and you will keep your students guessing as to what
you're going to ask them next I really hope that today's video has helped you
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strategies and resources for English language learners