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Subido el 27 de marzo de 2026 por Loida G.

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At some point, you guys may have felt a little overwhelmed when teachers ask you to organize some activity at the last minute and it turns out you did not prepare anything. Well, Minna, Colette & Ryan will give you some suggestions to muddle through and engage students. Welcome!

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good morning elmola today i'm here with our beloved blonde colette hello and ryan the lion 00:00:01
hey meow how are you both doing today great how are you not too bad a little bit sick 00:00:37
oh sorry about my voice we're keeping our distance oh boy six feet rule colette how 00:00:45
are you feeling i know you're sick yesterday i know um a bit better i mean i've kind of lost 00:00:51
my voice you might be able to hear it a little but yeah yeah we definitely yes right watch out 00:00:55
but good other than that awesome are you excited to talk about our teaching experiences you guys 00:01:00
of course awesome we love teaching yeah so thanks for tuning in you guys we're hoping to discuss 00:01:08
today a bit of those activities that we rely on maybe when we didn't have time to prepare at home 00:01:16
um and then hopefully we'll get a chance to wrap up with i don't know maybe some general 00:01:22
classroom reflections now that we're coming to the end of our our year here oh my gosh dave 00:01:27
it's terrifying who can i ask to start what's what are one of those activities you guys really 00:01:32
rely on maybe when when you're just rolling off that ulsa 193 and and your eyes are still a little 00:01:39
glued shut what are you having the class do what gets them awake at eight in the morning okay well 00:01:46
one thing which I always use which is really good to test vocabulary is a game called hot seat um 00:01:52
so I don't know if you're familiar with hot seat at all no I'm not shaking his head okay um so 00:01:59
basically what it is is on the board I would write a word so I don't know for example school could be 00:02:04
the word there's a student with their back facing the board the rest of the class can see the board 00:02:11
with the word on it then it's the responsibility of the students to explain without saying the word 00:02:17
the word to the students so it's a good way to practice vocabulary because they have to 00:02:22
think of a definition so that's what I my go-to if I don't know what else to do amazing I find 00:02:27
another great one for vocab is just doing like charades or pictionary or whatever making one 00:02:33
student come up secretly showing them the word and then yeah give it I tend to give them the 00:02:40
choice whether they want to do charades or charades I guess you might say I say charades 00:02:46
and they like they like having the choice I find so that one works well as well yeah whoa I used 00:02:51
to do Pictionary probably twice a week last year okay um and I don't know your setup it sounds like 00:03:00
you do it as a whole class we did two teams and one of my early teaching experiences horrifying 00:03:06
was having to ban Pictionary for an entire class because they got so mad desks were being thrown 00:03:14
the iPad pencil that they used to draw on the board got thrown to the other side of the room 00:03:24
they quit um it was really uh a spectacle you could say because they were super passionate 00:03:29
about that that unit's vocab you know of course about extreme sports yeah nothing to do with the 00:03:37
competitiveness at all i think anything to do with like competitiveness though is gonna be 00:03:43
gonna be a hoot in class to be fair but then like you said it can go the other way and people can go 00:03:48
a bit crazy normally i like to play off that energy to get them awake and engaged um and i 00:03:53
guess some groups just prefer a quiet a quiet morning um yeah respect they don't need the 00:04:00
competition they have enough um one of my go-to activities i actually just did it the 00:04:05
the other day um is song trivia when we're when we're looking for like a quiet maybe less 00:04:11
competitive morning but you still want them in groups kind of collaborating competing i like 00:04:17
make a playlist ahead of time sometimes with their own song tastes i like like to know what 00:04:23
artists they listen to and i find songs where the title is repeated often within the lyrics so if 00:04:29
they're listening closely they can guess the title based on what's repeated the most i like it and in 00:04:36
their groups we do rounds of five songs they try to guess the title if they know the artist it's 00:04:42
an extra point and we go through like that until we have a winner and it's a good excuse to listen 00:04:47
to music early in the morning I think it brightens everyone's day but they also have to really pay a 00:04:54
lot of attention to pull those I like that out yeah I did something kind of similar at Christmas 00:04:58
um where I did like a Christmas music quiz and it had like the lyrics and then the they had to like 00:05:04
finish the lyrics so I had like a snippet of the song um at the like back end of that so even if 00:05:11
they didn't know the song and weren't familiar like obviously everyone knows all I want for 00:05:18
Christmas is you so they kind of need the lyrics anyway but um when it was like very like British 00:05:22
Christmas songs for example which they didn't know um it they had to like listen to the lyrics and 00:05:29
um tell me what they were and that was really fun but I suppose you could kind of like integrate 00:05:35
that into like halloween thanksgiving other thanksgiving songs no no okay my bad uh saint 00:05:40
patrick's day though like valentine's what songs are there for saint patrick's day yeah any irish 00:05:47
song oh any irish song and so yeah valentine's day any love song any love song ah you see you see 00:05:54
summer any summer song got it so yeah finishing the lyrics that was quite good because like you 00:06:01
say I think music is quite a powerful tool when it comes to language learning off the back of that 00:06:06
I have a couple of times asked them for songs like Spanish Christmas songs or whatever which 00:06:13
I also think is quite nice because I don't know them at all so sometimes and they have to spell 00:06:19
the songs if they want me to search them on YouTube if they don't know them then they have 00:06:25
to spell it so that's also good spelling practice and I feel like yeah they get excited when they 00:06:30
can be teaching you something but if you have them do it in english they don't even know that 00:06:35
yes them practicing i think that's them teaching we like to fool the little trick 00:06:39
sorry kids 00:06:45
well playing off this idea of storytelling or like completing the the song or whatever it is 00:07:06
i started this idea with like starting maybe a short film like a three minute short film or a 00:07:21
video or like a common meme video and just cutting it halfway through and then having to complete the 00:07:27
story at first it was like to try to guess but then i'm like wait it's more fun when they can 00:07:33
get creative and just invent it and from that idea was born my favorite activity I love that 00:07:38
I get to do it with every group at least once a year um there have you guys seen Rick and Morty 00:07:46
no sorry to say well there's an episode of Rick and Morty where they're watching like intergalactic 00:07:51
cable as in there's infinite uh channels and so as you're scrolling through there's infinite 00:08:00
possibilities of what could come on things that seem totally random except there's like one aspect 00:08:06
of that reality that makes things weird like people have people walk on their hands or something 00:08:11
ridiculous and there's one that's like okay this is a commercial on international or intergalactic 00:08:16
cable a trailer for a new movie coming out and it is the most ridiculous uh improvisational 00:08:23
uh movie trailer and when she's like and then this happens but not before this happens but then 00:08:31
17 monsters show up and what do you do then because the moon is crashing into the earth 00:08:37
and zombies are there and it's two minutes of this nonsensical um improv movie trailer chaos 00:08:44
and i'm like was that funny you guys they're like haha i'm like well you need to make one now 00:08:53
and i tell them that they all have to compete to make the most creative nonsense i like trailer 00:08:59
they can't and they have to include a title in this trailer i wish i could show it to you yeah 00:09:05
i want to see later um yeah and the trailer the title is um because it's so improvised it's like 00:09:13
18 words of like two brothers on a mission going to the moon but with a mexican alien invasion 00:09:20
armada of tomatoes but then grandma's arrived the movie and like something totally ridiculous that 00:09:27
just describes the whole plot um and i make them do that and make like a poster for it too 00:09:34
and it ends up being like one of my most fun classes even though all you have to do is put 00:09:39
a youtube video on for two minutes and call it a day they actually make the videos and stuff in 00:09:43
class as well they don't make the video they they just have to narrate it as if they were 00:09:49
got you that's so fun and i've done it with fourth so down to first so oh wow everyone 00:09:53
could be fun they all like it like i've never had a group that's like 00:10:01
disanimated by it that's okay that's quiet and chill they always come up with something 00:10:08
at least one group in every class comes up with something that makes me laugh out loud 00:10:13
lol i think anything that they can be like creative and silly with even if it's like 00:10:18
absolute nonsense what they're coming up with as long as you're speaking english i don't care 00:10:24
i don't mind yeah as long as that grammar is okay they came up with with fart tanks 00:10:29
the last time i did this activity it was like a war where some monster invaded or some alien 00:10:36
invaded and they had to fight them off with like take tanks that shot farts okay and they're like 00:10:41
14 I'm like you know what could come in handy soon good vocab perfect no I did I remember doing 00:10:47
one when they were learning my second SO students were doing about like modal verbs or something so 00:10:55
like would could must should etc um and I made this like scenario where like something had gone 00:11:00
missing like the school trophy or something I don't even know if they have a school trophy here 00:11:10
but anyway made it up and um there was like a set of clues of things that had happened and they had 00:11:14
to like come up with scenarios about what could have happened and then some of the kids like 00:11:20
thinking very practically like oh it could have been this person at the school like the caretaker 00:11:26
because he has access to all the keys like etc other kids were like aliens came and they broke 00:11:30
into the school and they could have done this or they should have done this and I was like well 00:11:38
as long as you're using a modal verb said this is great for me guys that's awesome i just did one 00:11:43
with um marina where we put up we said that marina one of the teachers here after work goes home to 00:11:49
the city center and runs like a phone shop like selling like phone cases and whatever right because 00:11:57
i had found a video i just looked up like criminal robber failures and you thought marina no and it 00:12:04
was a video of this guy breaking into like a phone shop to try to rob it but he gets stuck 00:12:12
and it's like a minute and a half of him trying to get back out but he's stuck 00:12:17
and so i announced the class i'm like guys marina has been robbed and we know it was one of you 00:12:22
we have it on video and i show the video i'm like clearly it's someone from this class 00:12:30
and i like pulled out like some stupid piece of paper from class i'm like because they dropped 00:12:34
this and i know only you guys had that and so then it's a debate i'm like someone here is guilty 00:12:39
all of you are suspects and i make them use their past tense to explain to create their alibis for 00:12:45
we were with and they can totally invent it but other people are allowed to ask questions and at 00:12:51
the end we give a verdict of who we thought it was kind of like murder mystery i love that totally 00:12:57
improvised they got so into it like they were fighting in like the best way they were mad class 00:13:02
ended they stayed late to keep talking about it oh stop um and all i had to do was look up a video of 00:13:09
failed robberies perfect do you see the trend with mine it's like a quick youtube video 00:13:16
and then the creativity just comes in any any closing thoughts um i don't want to draw 00:13:23
our chat out too long but any words of advice we were talking about quizzes before 00:13:28
oh you use cahoots i do use cahoots sometimes i make my own but honestly there are millions 00:13:33
out there for anything you could possibly want and i've asked some of my classes for feedback 00:13:43
before of like what classes they've liked the most and they all say more cahoots teacher 00:13:48
so always go down a treat so if you're a bit stuck for what to do that's a that's a good one 00:13:53
and how do you organize the kahoot in like a setting when you can't use phones or do you go 00:14:01
for the computers do you click what do you do it depends on the class to be honest often i'll get 00:14:07
different students to come up and be the clicker and they'll have access to often it's my phone or 00:14:13
my laptop or something like they're the only person and everybody else has to like shout and 00:14:20
but you know in a respectful way so that they can hear it and click um or sometimes I like take off 00:14:26
the timer and they do it more like a quiz so they write down their answers and then I don't show 00:14:34
them until the end so it depends on the class but there are a few different ways you can do it 00:14:39
options yeah nice awesome any closing thoughts from you colette i don't think so i mean i use 00:14:45
kahoot as well but i kind of did it you know on um halloween when we did like group teams and we 00:14:51
were like nominate one person fastest hand like to go up you get to answer the question that's what 00:14:58
i do with my team so they're in like teams of four and i'm like you'll have to do it but it 00:15:04
depends on the size of the class when it's a big class it's really difficult that can get tricky 00:15:09
yeah absolutely wow and maybe that's what our next episode will be is perhaps something like 00:15:13
classroom management any skills we've gotten as untrained professionals 00:15:19
awesome well nice chatting with you guys stay well see you on the next episode and um 00:15:23
thanks for listening thank you 00:15:33
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Autor/es:
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Fecha:
27 de marzo de 2026 - 16:39
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