SMALL NOTE
I've found with this activity. It is good for that first week back but only that week. If you use it any later in January you just get wierd looks for teachers and students. Seems the New Year's window is shorter than the Christmas window.
UPDATED 12/21/2023
These are the versions I'll be using next year. If you have a chance please look through them and let me know if there are any mistakes or if you've got some suggestions. Note I combined the two versions of the 2nd year one into one presentation. You can use hyperlinks to go to sharing time, writing time or the friends without borders reading. There is now a standard quiz for the first years as well. If you are using the Friends without Borders Reading you might want to stop the quiz after 8 questions. There is a hyperlink on the 7th answer to jump ahead to the last question.
UPDATED 1/7/2022
I made these way too difficult for 1st lesson back. Especially the 1st year questions for the 2nd and 3rd year classes. Not much for building confidence when the students struggled with them. I added more of the hints we added on the whiteboard when we did it in class. Should go better.
Just updated the 3rd year version as well. Question eleven was too difficult.
This is what I'll be using in many of my classes over the next week or so. If you spot any mistakes please let me know.
Works best on a tablet so students can click the shapes themselves and manage to points themselves. Can be done on a computer with one teacher checking answers then the other controlling the computer. Students can still write the points on the board themselves.
TEMPLATE and HOW TO USE
Pretty much the same as all my Race and Speak Activities. The students are put into groups, works best in groups of 3 to 5 students sitting together so they can help each other. They pick their order and take turns coming up to answer the questions. After each team has sent somebody to answer a question you do the answer check and move onto the next question with a new member answering it. If there is a worksheet I usually give them to the students but tell them not to write first. Come answer the question and then if they have time while waiting for other groups to finish they can write their answers.
How to use the game slides. At the top will be the question or the keywords or hint words. If you click on that banner once it will show a tiger. The tiger has the hyperlink to go to the next screen. Students come to either teacher and answer the question and then click on one of the new years items to get points for their team. They then record the points on the board and return to their group. Once every group has had a chance or a time limit is reached you can do an answer check and move onto the next question.
NOTE
I generally do the demonstration screen before making groups.
SMALL TALK
Some of my classes start with a minute of small talk in pairs. The small talk screen will show a model question they can use to start their conversations. You can add it if you like.
THE GAME OVER SCREEN
The template has an animated game over screen with music. I cut this from the other versions to reduce size. You can cut and paste it back on if you like. Click on game over to make the music stop. If you click on the tiger a different song plays.
SHARING TIME
Show two questions and have the students in their group ask each other and answer the questions for a few minutes.
WRITING TIME
After sharing information about themselves they can write about their friends or themselves.
3rd Year, 2nd Year and 1st Year Review Versions
These are for my classes studying with Sunshine Two and Three 2021. In these versions the screen has keywords and the students listen to me ask the question. In some cases there is a picture hint. In this case the tiger has been replaced with a picture. After asking the question click on the keywords banner to show the picture. The picture still has the hyperlink to the next screen. With the keywords the blanks need to be filled in and the red words need to be corrected.
2nd Year A Friendship Beyond Time and Borders
The game is the same as the 2nd the 3rd year review but shorter to give more time for the reading. The students will read the story they were assigned as homework and answer the questions. After their group answers one question they can have a teacher check it. If they finish half they can get a sticker. I didn't bother with a game because I find the kids struggle so much with the readings they don't need the distraction. Hopefully the questions are easy enough. Probably not though.
Small update: I added a bit of an example to show the students shouldn't over answer the questions.
Also note with 16 questions working in groups it would take a full lesson just to do this. In my classes they did the quiz game, got the explanation for the reading and questions then all groups managed to finish the first 5 questions. They continued in a later lesson without me.