This is the same type of activity as Almost Pokemon Battle.
It works best on a tablet connected to the TV or projector.
Introduce the target language.
Go through the story slides telling the students aliens are visiting earth, are they friendly? No they aren't. The police need help. Here comes space force to save the day.
Go to the demo slide and click A to show the first sample question or key words and then click on the question to show the answer and the answer to make it vanish. Tell the students one member of their group comes to a teacher with the answer and if its okay they click on a character Icon. For this don't click on the male space force guy. Tell them they lost this round and get no point.
Do the second example but this time click on the male space force guy. This beats the alien so tell them the team gets a point and they can click the banner to move onto the next screen.
Once the demo is done make groups and hand out the papers, a worksheet for everyone and a question sheet for each group.
Now normally I do this on a tablet so both teachers can check answers and help groups and the students can tap the screen themselves. You may have to tell them to only use one finger. If the alien is clicked on it goes to game over. Click game over to go back into the game.
If you are using a computer then one teacher manages the computer and the other checks answer. Students write their own points on the board.
After a team is finished all 12 questions I end the activity and add up the scores, cheer the winning team.
For the declarative content clause I've added 'Space Fruits' at the beginning. This is also a group game but I avoid writing. The students look at the sentences and the pictures, think about how to complete them then send one member to the front to complete the sentence. It should serve as a fast introduction. It is based on Fruit Ninja you can find in my Race and Speak Games. I'll link it. It's simplified a bit.
Now THAT is how you introduce a game, well done. You put so much more effort than was needed. Great Stuff
It must have been a quiet summer day in the office when I first put it together. Surfing irasutoya for ideas is always a fun way to fill time.
Where are the 12 questions for the worksheet?
They are in the same document as the worksheet. If you scroll down to the second page you'll see them. Labelled 'Group Sheet' and rather than questions they are sentence prompts with blank spaces.
Played this with all my 2nd Grade classes today, it went down a treat, especially the intro. A couple of teachers and the Koucho sensei happened to come in and watch for a bit, and were really happy. So, I thought I'd pass on my thanks to you for a great activity.
We actually played it so they stayed in their desk groups, and once the team had all finished writing their answer, one person would stand up. As a rule, if they stood up before everyone had finished writing, we wiped their points.
I'm glad it went well. I liked making that intro, especially finding a use for the WingDing font.
I see. So the front page is an individual writing activity after the quiz?
@JasonX There are two activities here. The fruit one is a Race and Speak, there other a Write and Race. Generally I use both as group activities. I’ll link to another Race and Speak with more detailed guidelines.
It’s linked. I had meant to do that originally but I forgot.
The first page is the group writing activity. It is where students can write their answers. To save paper you could just have them use their notebooks. The questions are on a separate page that each group gets one copy of. When a student comes with an answer they also bring the group question paper so we can check off the question. I did this with some classes because I didn’t trust them not to bring the same answer over and over.
The fruit quiz game is not meant as a writing activity. I usually get through 8 questions then jump ahead to the next activity. If it is used as a writing activity where you wait for all teams to answer I’d ditch the second activity and either end with some kind of pair talk or individual non-game writing.
I understand now, thanks!