It's a simple idea to spice up lessons involving teams and competitions.
Many teachers use team competitions as a way of motivating students and making lessons more fun.This can be especially useful for things like exam practice, reading activities or listening tasks that students might otherwise find boring.
So how do we make the students care about the competition?
Sometimes just being the best group will be enough to create that competitive spirit and high energy atmosphere in the classroom, but we might want to add an incentive to really give some extra edge. Something like chocolate will certainly spice things up but we don't want to be spending our own money by bribing them.
Why not create fun forfeits like agreeing that the losing team must sing a song for 1 minute, tidy the classroom or even perform a forfeit designed by the other teams!
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Give them a fun free certificate from the internet! Just type 'make your own certificates' into google. It will take you 1 minute it's free and the students get a prize!
Don't think this just applies to young learners. Here are some of my my adult CPE class after winning their 'BEST REVISION GAMES TEAM' certificate before their upcoming CPE exam.
Have fun!
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