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Help Spiderman save Mary Jane from the Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus and the
Sandman!
This game is basically a scoring game which you can mix and match with
other games, but the way I present it here is great for question and answer
practice.
First of all you need A4 print outs of various Spiderman characters. You
can easily get these by doing a google image search. You'll need one Mary
Jane Watson, and then one Spiderman and villain for each group. One group
can be up to around 8 kids. The best grouping is one group as Spiderman
1 vs. the Green Goblin, the next group as Spiderman 2 vs. Doctor Octopus
and the final group as Spiderman 3 vs. the Sandman.
Like in the Banana Tree Game you then prepare the board, this takes about 2 minutes ( or one if you've had practice), so is good to do whilst the kids are doing a warm up game where the teacher isn't involved ( e.g. Harry Potter, Gokiburi etc. )
On the board you need to draw a tall building with several floors ( around
7 or 8 ) and wide enough so that your characters fit. Each teams' Spiderman
and villain starts at the ground floor. On top of the building you put
the picture of Mary Jane. The idea is the Spidermans will race to the top
to save the girl! ( And yeah, I know it's not politically correct but don't
blame me, write to Stan Lee!)
Then you need to split the kids into groups. Either use groups they normally make or use mingle and shout out a number, they have to get into groups of that number. .
All the groups have to have the same number of people.
1. Each group forms a circle.
2. Each group decides which person in the group will go first.
3. The teacher says "Go!"
4. Simultaneously the first kid in each group asks the person next to them
( clockwise) today's target question. ( e.g. When's your birthday? Where are you going? What's your favourite colour? etc. etc. )
5. This person answers and asks the next person.
6. Keep going round the group until the first person answers the question.
7. Everyone stands up and shouts "Yeah!"
8. The quickest team is the winner.
Readers' Comments
Hi Richard,
First of all, thanks! You saved my class. I'm in hamburg, Germany just
helping out in my son's 6th grade english class because I'm a native speaker
(USA). I was so relieved after reading about the "brick wall"
6th graders. It wasn't just my fault after all that they were bored! But
the last 3 lessons I did in genki style and I got em hooked. They love
it! I have their attention, they respect me and we are all having fun.
Two other teachers saw (and heard, thin walls) and told me how great they
thought it was. And I'm not even a teacher! I'm just a dad who goes to
work afterwards. We played Spiderman last week. I just had a chalkboard,
so I drew a building, put Maryjane on top, and one Spiderman on each side.
the kids saw them as the good and the bad Spiderman from SP3. So one group
was evil and the other good. They thought that was cool. then it was a
race to the top. It was so intense for them. they were asking questions
in a circle and really cheering. Next time I want to make it a bit different.
The 1st round will be any questions. The second will be future questions
(Will you...?) and the 3rd will be past tense questions.
Your reference to epals was also great. We have communication with 2 classes. One in the US and one in Brazil. Now there is a reason for them to speak and write english. It's quite exciting form me and them.
Keep up the good
work!
Kevin