Teaching can be a rush with tightly packed lesson plans, and sometimes lessons wrap up quicker than planned due to “fast finishers”. At the VUS Vo Thi Sau – Dong Nai campus, Mr. Nguyen Minh Quang handles this by starting his classes with a game.

“Besides using VUS ready-made lessons, I like to kick off my classes with a fun review using the Word Chain game. It’s a great way to mix things up, reinforce vocabulary, and get students to think creatively and strategically.”

Mr. Nguyen Minh Quang
Here’s how it works:
– Divide the class into 2 teams.
– Each team chooses one representative to play “rock, paper, scissors” to see which team goes first.
– The winning team writes any word on the board.
– The other team writes a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word.
– Each team member must take turns writing on the board. Members of the same team cannot give hints or spell out the words.
– The team with the highest score wins
(Source: Internet)
Scoring is as follows:
– Each valid word earns the team +1 point.
– A word that starts and ends with the same letter earns +2 points.
– A word that fits into the same category as the previous word earns +3 points.
– A word meeting both conditions (a) and (b) earns +5 points

Teachers here have the freedom to get creative and bring their own ideas into teaching, instead of just sticking to the script.

“What I love about my job is getting to use games in my lessons. It’s a fun and dynamic way to reinforce learning while keeping students motivated and engaged. I hope this will help teachers create a classroom atmosphere filled with moments of fun like this.”

Mr. Nguyen Minh Quang

With nearly 30 years of experience in English education in Vietnam, VUS has grown its network to 73 campuses and more than 2,700 qualified teaching staff nationwide.

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