Teaching Tips

The Race is on!

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This is a great idea which I found in the book “50 Quick and Brilliant Teaching Games” by Mike Gershon It is called the question race.  I was trying to prepare Year 9 (many of whom are not carrying on with German to GCSE) for a speaking assessment and wanted to really practise the key questions.  I explained we were doing a question race.  I wrote the first question on the board.  In their groups, they had to write an answer to the question, then bring it to me.  If there was anything wrong with it, e.g. spelling error, they were sent back to their group to improve.  If it was correct, they got the next question.  The winners were the first to complete all the questions.  To make it feel like more of a race, I played “The Race” by Yello which created an exciting atmosphere.  Afterwards, the groups looked back at their mistakes and discussed which would make a difference in speaking.

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