Forthnight Game. Clue!

Happy Wednesday!

To start off the month I bring you some mistery, it's the classic game: Clue.                                     

Of course, I haven't invented the game but I've gathered all the essential for you. In addition to a new way of playing, to make it more 'classroom friendly'. First step: Get ride of the dide. 

Second step:  DownloadGame_Clue

I normally use this game as a way to practice the right questions/answer dynamic because sometimes students don't go further than the yes o no answer and as teachers we know the importance of a full short answer. 

So, I don't use a dide, I simply give to the students at least one card of each, until there are none left. And one of the brown long papers where they take notes. 

When I'm playinh with A2/low B1, each student need to think of a question  when it's their turn and if someone has a card which proves them wrong, he or she shows the card ONLY to the student who have done the premise.

If I am playing with higher leves, we add could/should + present perfect. As every two rounds of questions, they need to elaborate a theory of who, with what and where.

Also, I enjoy a bit of theatre and before we start I play the theme song of Murder She wrote haha. 

Hope you enjoy the game as much as my students do, 

Lots of icing, 

B.P. 

Back to work!

Hello again my fellow Puddings!

I really hope you have had a relaxed summer and that you have a whale of a time. My summer has gone way too fast in between canvas, oil paintins, English grammar books and of course some 'tapas' and lots of ice-cream.

So, let's get down to business and start this school year full of beans and with out batteries charged.

To start the month I decided to go with a fun idiom: Have a whale of a time. 

The idiom has been created with a little help of the student slang at the end of the nineteenth century, as 'whale' was used in reference to someone exceptionally strong or brilliant. 'He's a whale at soccer.' 'She's a whale in English.' And so, a whale of a time, means a great time in large quantities (let's not forget whales are rather big animals). Of course, you might have curiosity about how whale got to mean great, there's more info here, but the recent meaning of the idiom is certainly not too old.

Also, I've learnt that sometimes my students are more keen on knowning differents uses for the same expression, so this year we will be doing a bit of both: origin and usage. 

Have a nice beginning of the course! 

See you around, 

B.P