Instruct the students to put their desks in a circle. Works just as well and was less than $2.00 to purchase. Having no pool noodle, I bought a piece of pipe insulation about the same length as the pool noodle. Pool noodles are perfect because they are about 4 feet in length, make a satisfying thwack when they hit a desk but are completely non injurious. The second thing you need is a pool noodle or some other soft instrument a student use to "bop" or "tuxtax" someone's desk. I would suggest making at least five extra. There should be at least one paper with a different phrase for each student. I have not personally tried this but may the next time we play. If moving desks is too difficult, you can place the item in the middle of a desk and have the students stand on either side of the desk instead. To the right is a diagram of how to set up the game. We also had one line move up so that everyone got a new partner every two rounds. I was pretty bored of yelling out verbs long before the class tired of it. Rotate partners and play as long as you can stand it. The winner is the one who grabs the item first. You then yell out "capere" and both partners have to try to grab the ball/ walnut.whatever. To play the game, you yell out the verbs and have the students make the various signals for the verbs. A haki-sac would have been perfect if I had owned 10 of them. (Actually it was some dried walnuts, decorative wooden yams and some other random stuff that I found by turning my house upside down at 10 pm the night before.) The object needs to be durable, not roll around on the floor, and small enough to be grabbed and covered by one person's hand so that the other person can't grab an end and start a tug of war. In between each pair, I placed a small ball. Three can play if you have an odd number. Each person sat directly across from someone else (about a foot apart). "You'll see," I said.) After this, I divided the class in half and had them sit cross-legged on the floor in two rows facing each other. Then I told them that they verb " capere " meant to take and this would be the "signal." ("For what?" they asked. We practiced these signals for a few minutes until everyone seemed to get it. I used the third person singularīecause it was the only form of the verb my students knew at the time we did this game - use imperative forms if your students are familiar with them. Intrare - using your index finger and your middle finger "walk" themĭiscedere - same as before except walk your fingers away from you Lacrimare - rub your eyes like you are cryingĭormire - put your palms together under your head like a pillow and Spectare - put your hand to your brow like you are looking for Legere - put your palms together and then open them up like a book With the class sitting in front of me, I taught them a hand signal for each verb: Four were new and three they had previously learned. To play, choose 7 verbs that can be associated with hand signals to suggest the meaning of the word. In Spanish class, they seem to use it to teach body parts but I adapted it to verbs - more useful for my purposes. I again learned it from a Spanish colleague ( magistra callidissima). This is an excellent game to review or teach targeted vocabulary.
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