Jeopardy of Food

For this activity, I used a very versatile program called QuizBreak! from the platform Smile Clear. Among other things, this program allows the users to create appealing games for the ESL classes. 

I created a Jeopardy game and I added different hints that help our students such as images, sentences, and audio files. It is very simple to use! When creating this game, my goal was to reinforce my students’ listening skills as well as their speaking and pronunciation proficiency. This Jeopardy is a student-centered game and it can be played in pairs or in groups.

Let’s play!

· Divide the class into teams (groups of 4-5 students). Allow them to create teams’ names.

· Choose a team to pick the first money box or point’s amount.

· Listen to the audio: First click on the “play audio” button, then students listen to the definition of the food being asked. In this first audio students will listen to any of the two native speakers saying a sentence and asking for a certain food word (thank you to my neighbors Tarah and Chris!). If you click on the second “play audio” button, you will listen to the correct answer. To see the correct word and sentence being said, click on "Show answer".

· Every team has an opportunity to answer each question and earn the point’s amount.

· After a designated amount of time ask the spokesperson of the group to write an answer.

· You will record the team names on the board and keep track of their score, if you have more than two teams. · Continue to play Jeopardy until all boxes have been asked.

Acknowledgements: Thanks to the great voices of Chris Natale and Tarah Brubaker!!

TO PLAY CLICK ON: http://clear.msu.edu/quizbreak/play.php?board=48824-1337632359