Dennis_TP#9

I met once again with my Brazilian tutees. There were 3 of them so we played the game heads up for the iphone. This game is an app on the iphone that is sort of like charades. One player must hold the phone to their forehead, the phone displays a word and all the students must act out without speaking the word that is being displayed. This dramaticaly increased the students vocabulary. We would skip words that students didn't know and at the end of their turn we would define each word that was unknown. Then I'd ask each student to use it correctly in a sentence.

This game was a lot of fun however it was too difficult for students to use so I switched the game to cards against humanity. This game was much more fun because the answers were hilarious, the students were laughing at every round. I would once in a while need to explain terms to them to understand what the subject card was asking for.

The students were discouraged by the difficulty in the heads up game. To encourage the students again  we played cards against humanity which the students really liked. They really liked my modeling examples and thought they were very funny and it encouraged them to play. It made the students more relaxed and wanting to actually play the game.