Games

Games to use in the classroom.

__**Avalanche** (mit verben)__ Avalanche is a fun verb race game. Have multiple students stand at the board (not too many because you have to keep your eye on all of them at once!). Write a verb for each of them and when you say "Los!" they will race to write all six forms, in order, without any mistakes. z.B. you give the student "spielen" and he/she must write spiele, spielst, spielt, spielen, spielt, spielen. In the interest of saving time, I do not require them to write pronouns. They must write them in order (no writing all the stems and then going back to add e/st/t/en/t/en!) and if they write any form wrong (spiele, spielst, spiel**en**) or out of order, you erase everything they have and they start over! The first student to finish wins! I give bon bons, but sometimes just winning the race is enough =)

__**Kategorien** (review)__ This review game can be altered to any topic or chapter. The only planning required is to figure out what categories you will have the kids review. It's very similar to the board game "Scattegories", except you do not limit the answers to one letter. So, say you're reviewing Deutsch Aktuell level 1, Kapitel 7. The categories would be Kleidungsstücke, Farben, Stem-changing verbs, and then you could review some stuff from previous chapters. Divide the class into teams. For each category, the students get 3 minutes to recall as many words as possible. When the time is up, one person from each time will write their list of words on the board. Once all the lists are up, then the erasing begins! First, you erase anything that is spelled wrong or does not apply to the category. Then, you erase any words that are in more than one list - only unique answers get points. Once you are done the teams get one point per word that is 'left standing'!