Space Invaders Feud

Do the two demonstrations before putting the students into groups.

After the mother ship has arrived click the START button to show the question or the keywords.

Students or in demo the teacher raise their hand to try and answer. You can require speaking the answer as a sentence if the model is on the screen. If its a good answer (for example 'Sushi is a food eaten in Japan') then the student picks a number between 1 and 6. For the demo don't pick red. This will destroy one of the small guard ships which you say gets the team 2 points. Then demonstrate the teacher or ALT being a different group and giving another correct answer. Finally do a last demonstration and this time click on the green number. This destroys the mother ship ending the round. That team gets 4 points and then either click on the START button again to see an example answer and the arrow to go to the next screen. This is either the end of the round or you can optionally say remaining teams can give an answer for 1 point.

On the next demo screen the green number causes the track beam to appear. This means the team gets -4 points and the round is over. Although again remaining teams that want to answer can answer for 1 point. If they don't want to answer they can just down. Its not a test.

Then make teams and have the teams select their order. They should switch which student answers each question but other members can help with ideas. For the most part I use rows as groups. Question one has the first student in each row stand. Second question has the second student and so on.

There are 12 screens and after the quiz the team with the most points wins.

Talking Time

This is something I do with most of my classes. The students have a one minute conversation with their partner. For this one I'd give an example with the JT to give ideas about follow up questions 'Where did you buy it?' 'How long have you had it?' etc. The green circle is a timer. This activity has two talking times. I'd skip one or the other or both if you don't do talking time.

Review

Just a quick check of how to use 'by, in, for, etc'. I do this quickly and I don't make groups.

Combine the Sentences

This is a writing activity. The students can work in groups although I usually do it solo. Demonstrate on the powerpoint. I reward stickers if they can complete a certain number depending on the time.

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3-04B Space Invaders Combine the Sentences Worksheet.docx (81.2 KB)

3-04B Space Invaders with SIMPLE WRITING.docx (81.3 KB)

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3-04B Space Invaders Feud with Combine the Sentences Example.pptx (14.1 MB)

3-04B Space Invaders Feud with SIMPLE WRITING.pptx (10.2 MB)