Sunday 24 January 2010

Beer Pong (Fast Version)

Here's a quick variation on the ESL Beer Pong game I adapted last week.  I found the game was great for small classes but took too much time for big ones, so I've made it faster.

  1. Set up the Beer Pong cups on the floor down the length of the classroom.
  2. Mark a line at the other end from which kids throw and give each kid (team) three ping pong balls.  I only use three as that restricts the number of balls that get thrown around and lost.
  3. The rest of the class should be sitting in a horse-shoe shape around the classroom.  They should should help the team member who's throwing the balls by passing them down the line and back to them.  I give each team a plastic bowl to deposit collected balls at the throwing end of each team.
  4. The first team to get a ball in their cup is the round winner and the next two students replace them.  Each student answers a grammar question before playing but you could just as easily play for fun (or use vocabulary etc...) instead.
  5. Typically a game of fast Beer Pong took 30 mins with each kid answering questions.  You could limit each round time to 60 seconds if you wanted, to keep the game moving quickly. 

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