Teacher Training Materials of Professor Dr David Ngin Sian Pau

How Long?

· So you should not use up more than 10 minutes to play the game. Games are best at the end of the class period, though
   sometimes you could begin a class with a very few minutes to play a game.

When?

· Games are best at the end of the class period, though sometimes you could begin a class with a very few minutes of the
   game to revise some point; e.g. WHAT’S THE WORD for spelling; PUT YOUR FINGER ON YOUR …! To go over parts
   of the body.

Recapture attention

· Sometimes, especially with children, who have a short span of attention, you might notice that they are not paying close
   attention. To recapture their attention, you can stop what you are teaching for fives minutes and play a quick amusing
   game, then continue with your teaching.

BREAK TIME      BREAK TIME    BREAK TIME   BREAK TIME   BREAK TIME

Split the class into 5 groups. One from each group should try out how to play this game. Discussion time for the groups to choose a person who will lead the class to play the game and how to play the game is 10 minutes.

GAMES

1. You can play this game as soon as your students have learned the numbers up to 100.

               Name of the game: NUMBER BINGO

How to play :

-Write on the blackboard all the numbers 1 to 20 and any five other numbers, e.g. 30, 60, 90, 43, 55.
-Write these numbers on pieces of paper or cards and put them in their exercise books, 4 across and 4 down.
-They must choose any 16 of the numbers you have put on the blackboard and write them in their grid.
-You or a student pick out a number from the box or bag and call it out clearly.
-The students must listen carefully. If they have that number in their grid, they must cross it out.
-The first one to cross out a row of four numbers -across, down or diagonal - must call out BINGO, and is the winner.

2. This is a good game to play when you have taught telling the time.

      Name of the game: TIME BINGO

How to play:

-Write on the blackboard about 20 times of the day -or you can get students to tell you times,
-e.g. 1:30 a.m.                          2 o’clock                        4:45 p.m.                                9:15
         6 o’clock                          9 a.m.                             half past two                           7:10
         8:40                                  a quarter to six              12 noon                                  five to three
         11:20 p.m.                       25 past one                    6:30 p.m.                                10:50
         A quarter to five             half past seven              8:10 a.m.                                 five past two
         11 o’clock                        4:55                                ten to seven                            12:05 p.m.

-Put this times on cards and put them in a box or bag.
-The students must draw a grid of 16 squares in their exercise books, as described in LETTER and
   NUMBER BINGO.

-They must choose 16 of times you have put on the blackboard and write them in their grid.
-You or a student pick out a card and call out the time. If the students have that time in a square,
   they cross it out.
-The first one to cross out a row of four squares calls out BINGO, and is the winner.

3. WORD BINGO

-The students prepare a grid of 16 squares as described in Letter and Number Bingo.
-You write on the blackboard 25 words that the students have learned and that you want them to recognized when they are called out.
-The students choose any 16 of these words and write them in their grid.
-Put those words on pieces of paper or cards and put then in a box or bag.
-You or a student pick out a word and READ it only once.
-If the students have this word in their grid, they cross it out.
-The first student to cross out four words in a row calls out BINGO, and is the winner.

4. FRACTIONS BINGO

When you have taught fractions, you can practice them with this game.

- Get the students 20 fractions to write on a board.
- Here are some suggestions:
   ½ , ¼ , ¾ , 1/3^rd , 2/3^rd, 3/7^th, 5/8^th , 1/20^th, 7/13^th, 4/9^th, 1/5^th, 5/6^th, 7/12^th, 1/8^th, 4/17^th, 3/40^th, 6/19^th.
- the students must draw a grid as in other BINGO games.
- They should then choose 16 fractions from the list on the blackboard to put in the grid.

Play as in other Bingo games.

5. GUESS WHAT’S IN MY BAG!

- This is a good game for children as soon as they know the names of about 10 objects in English.
- You could open the lesson with this or play it when the children need a short break .
- Put an object that the children know into a bag and ask them to guess what it is.
- Say guess in CHINESE and in English until the children know the English. Give them three guesses.
- If they can’t guess, you take the object out of the bag and ask what it is.
- Then put another object in the bag, and so on.