Each team starts with $1000. They must answer a series of simple comparative questions. Each team must write their answer and amount they wish to bet on the blackboard in their team's box, before the time runs out on the stopwatch. If the team answers correctly, they receive double the stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $400, answered correctly, new total is $1800). If the team answers incorrectly, they lose their stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $500, answered incorrectly, new total is $500). The team with the highest total at the end wins.
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| - Each team starts with $1000. They must answer a series of simple comparative questions. Each team must write their answer and amount they wish to bet on the blackboard in their team's box, before the time runs out on the stopwatch. If the team answers correctly, they receive double the stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $400, answered correctly, new total is $1800). If the team answers incorrectly, they lose their stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $500, answered incorrectly, new total is $500). The team with the highest total at the end wins.
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*For Halloween: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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| - The Gambling game is a great activity for reviewing comparatives for Junior High school classes, though the questions can be changed to focus on a different grammar point. It's an exciting group game that gets them thinking about comparitive adjectives and also introduces a bit of vice into the classroom - which can only be a good thing!
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| - Each team starts with $1000. They must answer a series of simple comparative questions. Each team must write their answer and amount they wish to bet on the blackboard in their team's box, before the time runs out on the stopwatch. If the team answers correctly, they receive double the stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $400, answered correctly, new total is $1800). If the team answers incorrectly, they lose their stake (eg. started with $1000, bet $500, answered incorrectly, new total is $500). The team with the highest total at the end wins.
* Demonstrate how the game works with the JTE. Ask the JTE a demonstration question (eg. Who is taller Ichiro Suzuki or Hideki Matsui?). Have the JTE write their answer and bet amount in a box on the board. (Note: To stop teams blowing all their money in Round 1, the maximum bet amount is half their remaining total.)
* Reveal the answer (eg. Ichiro = 180cm, Matsui = 186cm - Matsui is taller than Ichiro) and write the JTE's new total on the board. Explain what would have happened if they'd answered the opposite way.
* Once the students understand the rules, start the game with Question 1. Make a time limit for answering each question. Maybe 2 minutes for the first question but only 1 minute thereafter.
* Repeat until you run out of questions or time.
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