Charade Game: Movie Guessing

Charade Game: Movie Guessing

 Prepared by: Alison Chin Vui Tze (A11PP0109) & Akmal Arif bin Narodin (A11PP0017)

Game Title:

Movie Guessing

Game Type:

Charade Game

Objectives:

1)      To enable students to apply their demonstration of idea (movie’s name) by their gestures.

2)      To enable students to have fast response with the correct guessing of the movie’s name by the gestures of their group member performed.

Rules:

1)      Students should be aware about what their group member (Performer) performed.

2)      The students need to guess the correct movie’s name by the gesture of their group member (Performer).

3)    The performer only able to give message to his/her group members by using gesture as spoken tips are strictly prohibited. 

4)    Tips of the Game:

a.       Number of words in the title: Hold up the number of fingers.

b.      Which word you're working on: Hold up the number of fingers again.

c.       Number of syllables in the word: Lay the number of fingers on your arm.

d.      Which syllable you're working on: Lay the number of fingers on your arm again.

e.       Length of word: Make a "little" or "big" sign as if you were measuring a fish.

f.       A letter of the alphabet: Move your hand in a chopping motion toward your arm (near the top of your forearm if the letter is near the beginning of the alphabet, and near the bottom of your arm if the letter is near the end of the alphabet).

g.      "Sounds like": Cup one hand behind an ear.

h.      "On the nose" (i.e., someone has made a correct guess): Point at your nose with one hand, while pointing at the person with your other hand.

Group Size:

 46 students divided into 3 groups (15/16 members each)

Language Skills:

a)      Vocabulary (Movie’s names)

Preparation:

There is not much preparation needed. Teacher must be clear with students’ level of proficiency and motives in learning.

Level:

Intermediate

Procedure:

1.         The students are divided into 3 groups (15 or16 members each).

2.         Each person are required to write down 3 of their favourite movies in small pieces of paper sheet (1 movie on 1 paper) and they are required to fold their papers into smaller size without expose the name of the movie.

3.         The teacher collects the paper sheets from the students.

4.         Each group of the students chooses one of their members as the “Performer” of their group for a Round.

5.         The “Performer” of Group 1 has to select sheets of paper with movie names and deliver out the movie’s name by only gesture with the tips given by the teacher (from the paper sheet with rules of game).

6.         The remaining group members have to guess the Movie’s names with the clues given by the “Performer” of their group respectively.

7.         Teacher writes down the marks of the group on whiteboard (Marks are given according to the numbers of Movie’s name guessed correctly for each group).

8.         Steps 5 to 7 are repeated by Group 2.

9.         Steps 5 to 7 are repeated by Group 3.

10.     The game requires 2 complete Round and the total marks of both Rounds are the final result for each group (Steps 5 to 9 are repeated).

11.  Teacher totals up the marks of three groups and announces the winner.

Duration:

20 minutes

Variation:

The choices of words are limited in which it only focuses on movies’ name.

Materials:

1.          Paper sheet with Tips of the Game

2.          Papers

3.          Pencil

4.          Whiteboard

5.          Marker Pen

Comments:

            This is a simple game that can help in hyping up the students’ learning. It is more suitable to be used to enhance students’ interest in learning English in order to give the concept of learning English is fun. As mentioned, the choices of words are limited in which it only focuses on movies’ name. Therefore, to make it can be used for reviewing, revision or testing students’ knowledge in Vocabulary, the teacher can alters and varieties the theme of the games such as themes like Stationary, Country, Animals etc. However, there is less new input for the students throughout this game as it is too simple.