For anyone thinking about teaching abroad: Apples to Apples was a huge hit. I ended up playing it several times this week at the American Corner because the students didn't want to do anything else. I didn't know if the game would make a lot of sense to some people--there are so many pop culture references, not to mention that the vocabulary (though very helpful in building new vocab) is much more elevated than they're used to. None of my concerns were justified. I don't think I'll be able to introduce any other games this year because Apples to Apples has revolutionized their idea of a fun English game. Wow, this should be a paid advertisement.
As a child, one of my favorite games during sleepovers was Would You Rather...? Mostly, we would just make up the questions based on who we had crushes on. For example, "Would you rather kiss Kyle or Ryan?" But, it can also go into the realm of Fear Factor, which was also very fun, albeit pretty gross--especially if you're playing with boys. Because this game was so fun to me when I was younger (and can still be pretty fun--who doesn't like extreme hypotheticals that you have to answer as if your life was depending on it?), I decided to give it a try at the American Corner this week. I brought the actual game with me to Kosovo, and although we had too many people to play the board game, we still had a lot of fun asking each other the questions. If you can see from the pictures, I had to have Google Translate up on the board because there were some pretty intense words the students had never heard of. About halfway through the activity, we decided to create out own questions. Some of them were were funny (and/or inappropriate): Some of them were definitely in the style of Fear Factor: Some of them were real head scratchers: But this one was my favorite:
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AuthorCassie Ganzak is a current Fulbright ETA teaching in Prizren, Kosovo during the 2014-2015 academic year.
DisclaimerThis site is not an official Fulbright Program site. The views expressed on this site are entirely those of its author, Cassandra Ganzak, and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the United States' Department of State, or any of its partner organizations.
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