China: Fun and Games

Word Parade- THE game of intense and competitive speed spelling.

It's my penultimate week of teaching so I've just been playing games!

Classes are HILARIOUS so I had share some stories.... People think classes of 60 would be a nightmare but it's actually really good as there's a huge crowd mentality, in fact, it's much easier playing games in class of 60 in China than a class of 9 in Fiji.

Guess the Word

Rules: 

• Teacher writes a word on the board, one student stands at the front and has to guess the word some help from everyone else.
• Speak English! (No Chinese.... or Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish etc.)
• No spelling
• No objects

My favourites...

Hu Jintao 

"CHINESE OBAMA!!"

"Wen Jiabao's friend!!"

Students with the family name "Hu" : "ME! My Father! My Uncle!!"

Hate

"dislike dislike!" Student guessing: "....Teachers?"

"We love *English teacher's name* but we really ______ *history teacher's name*

Lady Gaga

"Oh my .......!" ("Oh my Lady Gaga!" is a catchphrase in China)

"Him him him!!" (everyone points at a student who loves Gaga)

*class starts to sing Poker Face*

Mushroom

"YOUR HAIR!!!"

"English" Whispers

Rules:

• Each column is a team. 10 teams of 6.
• Teacher tells the back row the sentence, they must whisper till it gets to the front where the front row have to write what they've heard on the blackboard.
• Most accurate team wins!

They're all MASSIVE (+hilarious) cheaters. By the last round, they're literally screaming across the room to the front row or passing a written note along, It's pretty much anarchy and they're pushing each other off the blackboard.... doing victory dances after finishing writing first and generally a massive laugh!!

Chinese whispers in China.... is definitely not a whisper.

Having so much fun! :) Love love love love love China.

p.s I'm nowhere near the floods in China, but it's still raining a lot!!