Language Camp C : Scream the Message!

SCREAM THE MESSAGE

Objectives:

1.      To encourage students to speak louder

2.      To challenge the students’ memory

3.      To promote teamwork among the students

Language Skills:

1.      Speaking skills

2.      Listening skills

3.      Reading skills

Level: Intermediate

Duration: 20 minutes

Materials: Paper strips

Procedures:

Briefing (3 minutes)

1.      Students are divided into groups of 4 or 5 (if bigger, not more than 10 per group)

2.      The teacher introduces the game “Scream the Message” to the students.

3.      Students are needed to sit in rows according to groups and number themselves in their own group. The person sitting in front is number one.

4.      The teacher explain the rules to the students:

a.       Student number one will have to take 20 steps forward.

b.      Student number two will take 10 steps forward.

c.       The rest of the group mates will take 5 steps backwards.

d.      Teacher gives student number one a strip of paper. Students are not allowed to look into it unless told so.

e.       Student number one will be given 15 seconds to memorise the message in the strip paper given.

f.       After the 15 second end, the students will have to throw the paper away.

g.      The teacher will blow the whistle and student number one will start shouting the message to student number two in 20 seconds.

h.      When the 20 seconds end, the teacher will blow the whistle and student number one will have to stop shouting and take 10 steps backwards and sit facing the other way.

i.        Student number two will then take the place of student number one. Student number three will take the place of student number two.

j.        This time, student number two will shout the message he/she has gotten from student number one.

k.      Once the whistle is blown, student number two will shout the message to student number three.

l.        This continues until the last student gets the message.

Demonstrate (1 minute)

1.      The teacher demonstrates the game by demonstrating the positions and shouting the message.

Playing the Game (15 minutes)

1.      The students will start the game in groups.

2.      At the end of the game, the last student will shout the message he/she has gotten.  

Debriefing (5 minutes)

1.      The teacher asks the students on what they have learnt from the game.

Variations:

1.      The students can have more than one go on shouting the message.

2.      The message can be song lyrics.

Prepared by, 

Amira Syafiqah Ameruddin

‘Alyaa Razali

Nur Ashikin Abdul Gani