Each student must choose a theme song which sums up their life. They may choose a song with lyrics which describes their personality/hobbies/interests/ambitions/appearance etc. The student must then write their chosen song onto a post-it note (without mentioning their name) and stick it at the front of the classroom. You select random post-its and read them out and the class must guess whose theme song it is.
Tag: post-it
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Theme song to my life..
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Guess who?
Simple game using post-it notes. In pairs, students take it in turns to guess who they are. One student writes a key person’s name onto a post-it note and sticks it onto their partner’s forehead without them seeing what it says. Their partner must then ask questions which can only be answered with yes or no. They can have upto 10 questions in order to guess who they are. Then students swap roles. Useful for revising facts about key people in a topic.
Tags: key people, post-it, questions
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Question time
Allow ten minutes at the end of the lesson for students to write down one aspect of the lesson they did not understand onto a post-it note. The post-it note is then stuck onto the whiteboard. You pick randomly from the notes and read out the question. Class members volunteer to answer the question demonstrating their understanding of the topic. Peer explanations can often add clarity to a topic for students. If lots of students produce the same question, this flags up to you that this area may need clarification next lesson.
Tags: peer teaching, post-it, students' questions
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Post it!
Give each student a post-it note and ask them to write down one question they would like answering based upon the content of the previous lesson. They then stick their note on the whiteboard and take away another person’s note. Each student must then attempt to answer the question from the post-it note they have chosen. If anyone gets stuck, it can be thrown open to the rest of the class (or the teacher!)