Super Vocabulary

Bagi seorang guru yang masih belajar untuk menjadi guru yang hebat, tentu akan selalu mencari metode yang tepat bagi anak agar tidak jenuh dan membosankan. Saya menemukan game ini asalnya dari situs genki kita bisa mengunjunginya langsung ke situsnya. Tapi untuk lebih memahaminya saya coba untuk menterjemahkannya untuk saya sendiri agar mudah untuk memahami dan menerapkannya ketika di kelas. Dan Alhamdulillah saya sudah mencobanya walaupun sedikit berkeringat tapi mereka senang. Berikut penjelasannya. Target Kompetensi : animals, action verbs, I’m doing Level : Sekolah Dasar Jumlah siswa : 15-20 orang Cara bermain : 1. Gulunglah beberapa lembar kertas Koran menjadi tongkat sihir dan mainkan game ini di luar kelas/lapang. 2. Bagi dua kelompok, 1/3 nya di beri tongkat sihir dan berperan jadi voldemort. 3. Sisanya berperan sebagai Harry Potter. 4. Berikan waktu pada Harry Potter 10 detik untuk menjauhi voldemort. 5. Ketika voldemort berhasil menangkap Harry Potter, ayunkan tongkatny...

Language Focus : Vocabulary Review Usage Level : Level 3 - 6 Notes : This game will teach the children how to use the question Do you have and also to describe the classroom objects. The competition makes it merrier, since it is also challenging. Materials : 1. classroom objects 2. chairs and tables 3. stopwatch Method: Place lots of items that the children will normally have with them for school on a desk (like pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers, English / maths / etc books, bags, pencil cases, etc). Each student who is not a troll (guess we shall call these goats), picks up 5 objects only. Put 5 chairs in a row with plenty of space between them. Next to each chair put 1 student (they will be like the troll in the 3 Billy Goats Gruff story guarding the bridge) All the other students (the goats) line up at the first chair. The first student goes to the first chair, where upon the troll will ask, "Do you have a ???" (for slightly more advanced students add adjectives like blu...

Kosa kata / vocabulary yang kita kuasai sangat mempengaruhi kemampuan kita mempraktekkan bahasa Inggris dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, termasuk dalam hal mendengar / listening. Berikut ini beberapa cara yang sifatnya ringan dan bisa dianggap permainan yang bisa anda praktekkan di kala senggang. 1. Mencari kata yang berhubungan. Buatlah sebuah lingkaran dengan satu kata di dalamnya misalnya "WATER" Buat anak panah di sekeliling lingkaran, misalnya 4 anak panah. Cari 4 kata yang berhubungan dengan water, misal anda menemukan kata Glass, river, sea, dan drink. Dari 4 kata tersebut pilih satu kata, misal anda pilih river, taruh dalam lingkaran dan buat 4 anak panah lagi, cari 4 kata yang berhubungan dengan river. Demikian seterusnya sehingga anda menghasilkan banyak lingkaran. Dan hitung jumlahnya. Anda bisa juga menggunakan kamus apabila anda belum mendapatkan kata yang dicari. 2. Mencari kata yang berhubungan dalam 5 detik. Latihan ini bisa dikerjakan berkelompok atau sen...

Language Focus : Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Listening building Usage Level: All Level Notes : This game will teach the children how to say the names of the English body parts and how to use them.  Materials : 1. List of words in theme of body parts 2. blank sheets of paper 3. pens or pencils 4. Picture of human body parts  Method :  All you need is an empty classroom and an even member of children. The children make couples and they disperse themselves. Now you are going to give orders to the children. For example: Head against arm. Now one child of the couple must put his head against the arm of the other kid. You check if everyone is doing it alright.  Another order could be "feet against shoulder". After a couple of orders you say the line "me against me". Then the children must make another couple. And you have to find a child to make a couple with you. So in this way one child has no couple and then it his turn to give the orders.

Language Focus : All skill Usage Level : Level 4 - 6  Notes: This is the challenging game which has to be played in two teams, the knights and the giants. The knights are in mission to set free the princesses and grab the stars of life played with many modifications as in accordance to the necessity and the students’ level of competence. The students will be able to recognize English vocabulary of things, pronounce and spell them correctly and also say the right password to the giants.  Materials : 1. List of words in several setting and theme (kitchen, bathroom, dining room, fruit, animals, stationary, etc) 2. blank sheets of paper 3. pens or pencils 4. Stars from paper 5. costumes of knights and giants  Method :  The teacher prepares the setting first by putting the chairs in 5 for the posts of giants who guard the princess and await the knights. One team becoming the knights and the other are giants. The knights are equipped by the things which needed by the gia...

Language Focus : Listening, vocabulary & Spelling building Usage Level : All Level  Notes : The game can be played with many modifications as in accordance to the necessity and the students’ level of competence. The students will be able to recognize English sounds through its alphabets. Then for the higher level can be added the vocabulary and spelling skill by asking them to present the words derived from the alphabets and spell them. Materials : 1. List of words in several setting and theme (kitchen, bathroom, dining room, fruit, animals, sports, etc) 2. blank sheets of paper 3. pens or pencils 4. chalk  Method: The teacher prepares the setting first by putting the alphabets (in papers or chalk drawing) in the center of the field in correct order and or for challenging one, can be scrambled.  The game starts by having the students in 5 to 8 to make a long line in front of the alphabets islands. The teacher, then, asks the students to run and make a circle around ...

Language Focus : Vocabulary and Spelling building Usage Level : Level 3 - 5 Notes : This is the combination of three skills in one game that can be introduced at once. The students will explore more on imagining how the words look like, knowing the letters that made up the words and say the correct pronunciation of the words. Plus to have the competition will make it merrier to be the best team. Materials : 1. List of words and or flashcards in several setting and theme (kitchen, bathroom, dining room, fruit, animals, sports, etc) 2. blank sheets of paper 3. whiteboard along with the board marker 4. Colorful flags Method : The teacher may start with dividing the students into 2 groups of whatever number as you can possibly build. The students of each group make 2 lines facing the field. The teacher, then, stands in front, in the middle of the two groups. The game is started right after the teacher say or shows (in flashcards) the word that has to be written by the first member of each...

Language Focus : Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Writing and Structure (verbs) building Usage Level : Level 3 - 5  Notes : This is the combination of three skills in one game that can be introduced at once. The students will explore more on imagining how the words look like, knowing the letters that made up the words and say the correct pronunciation of the words. Plus to have the competition will make it merrier to be the best team.  Materials : 1. List of words and or flashcards in several setting and theme (kitchen, bathroom, dining room, fruit, animals, sports, etc) 2. blank sheets of paper 3. whiteboard along with the board marker  Method :  Step 1 The teacher may start with dividing the students into 2 groups of whatever number as you can possibly build. The students of each group make 2 lines facing the whiteboard. The teacher, then, stands in front, in the middle of the two groups. The game is started right after the teacher say or shows (in flashcards) the word...

English Game for all level ‘Who am I’ you can use this game simulation with any language building purposes. Not only for Vocabulary and Pronunciation but also to enhance students’ speaking and listening skill through asking question on this simulation game. The students need to have the freedom on exploring their own words to enable them using it in the free conversation. Materials: List of words and or flashcards in several written famous names (mixed nationalities) Examples of word list: 1. Soekarno 2. Alber Einstain 3. Mother Teresa 4. Germany Method: Divide the class into two teams, team A and team B or boys and girls. If you like, you might choose them randomly. Tape a name on the forehead of each student. The amount for each team may vary depends on the least number of members in a group. The two groups make a long line facing face by face. The individual student should not see his or her paper, but the others should. Then, like with 20 questions, only yes or no questions s...

Language Focus : Vocabulary Building Usage Level : Level 2 - 6 Notes : This game will teach the children how to answer and respond on any theme. The competition makes it merrier, since it is also challenging. Materials : 1. List of questions in theme of learning 2. pictures of the topical objects 3. stopwatch Method : 1. Split the kids into groups of about 5/6 kids. Move the desks into little islands. 2. Give them a topic (e.g. fruits, sports, foods, animals etc.) 3. The first team says a word from that category (e.g. "Apple " for fruits). If they can do it they get a point. 4. Go to the next group and ask them for another word from the same topic. 5. If they repeat a word that's been already said, or can't think of one, you move onto the next team and they gain no points! 6. Repeat from 4 7. When all the words in the category have been used then change to a different topic. Sometimes saying "any English OK!" is a good topic. Also tr...