Sometimes a teacher, by necessity a flexible person, has to adapt to the existing circumstances, and so I found myself last week with only half a class (the others, all middle school students, were absent for exams).
So I decided to try something new, a card/whiteboard story game (mention the word "game" and you get everyone's attention; let's not forget that I teach after students have been through a full day of public school).
Each of the four students were given (or chose) two vocabulary cards and then they, as a group, had to create a story using all of the vocabulary words. To save time, I wrote the story on the whiteboard.
(Teachers: caution: I had a problem with Korean being spoken during the story-planning stage.)
The students (6th-8th grades) loved the activity. Here is what they came up with:
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