Fun activities to use during online classes

 

There is no better way to keep your students engaged during online classes than by having fun activities a few times a week. It is difficult to create fun activities and it is even more difficult talking about virtual classes, but in my opinion, the best activities that can be done to activate them a between topics and make the classes a little more fun, are those in which the students can participate and express themselves in a creative way.

So thinking on that I did a little research on the internet to find some fun activities to use in your online classes, and that can be free topic or adapt them to a specific topic avoiding to much teacher talk and let them produce more language. 

Twenty Questions 

Players take turns asking only  “yes” or “no” questions about a character or scientific facts, and try to figure out the answer by asking as many as 20 questions. It is a fun way to close a specific topic or to take some minutes out of learning.

Movie and Netflix Reviews 

This would be a good way to let your students produce the language using something interesting for them. A day per week you could start the session with a movie review. You could relate a specific movie on the topic of the week or of the day and discuss the movie that day.

Virtual Talk Shows

Students take the place of characters, concepts, or even a time period in a virtual talk show. Each student takes the “hot-seat” to answer questions showing their comprehension of an idea from the viewpoint of a person or idea being studied in class. Fun and interactive.

These three activities will add an extra to the class, completely changing the routine and making it more interesting and fun. Don't let distance condition your classes to something that your students can't enjoy.

REFERENCES

Clark, H.  & Miller, M. (N.D.). 8 Fun Activities for Virtual Learning Meetings. Retrieved from: https://www.hollyclark.org/2020/04/21/virtual-learning-ideas/

StartupStockPhotos. (Jan. 8, 2015). Children [Online picture]. Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/children-win-success-video-game-593313/