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Since two weeks later there will be a final exam for my students, I’ve decided to look for revision activities/games they can enjoy and recall the subjects that were taught before. Here are three of them that I found useful and fun:

The Millionaire Game: It’s an effective game in which I can insert any types of questions. If you wish you can also play the game with groups. The rules are:

• Write the amount of money for each question on the board: $100, $500, $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $5,000, $7,000, $10,000, $15,000.

• Remind the students they have five lifelines which are mentioned below. (These lifelines are really great to incorporate the other students into the activity)

•  The value of each question answered correctly is added to the student’s bank.

• The student who gives an incorrect answer at any point in the round leaves without any award.

• Don’t forget to set a time-limit depending on the level of the students.

VocabBingo: Although this activity needs a short preparation beforehand, it is a useful recycling activity for students.  

• Prepare a wordlist including the definitions and parts of speech of words (e.g. a preposition or a verb) as a teacher’s resource

• Hand in the list of the words and the blank Bingo Cards to the students.

• They are supposed to choose 10 words from the list and place them on the card.

• The teacher starts to read the definitions randomly.

• Students try to guess the word and its parts of speech. If they have that word on their card, they put a cross on it.

• The first one who finishes first calls out “Bingo”.

Jenga: I’m pretty sure most of you play this game when you come together somewhere with your friends. If you have one at home, why don’t you use it in your class?  You can revise everything with these magic blocks.

• Write your questions on cards. My suggestion is specify the difficulty of the questions in an order.

• Divide the class into groups or play it as a whole class.

• Each time a student comes to the board and pulls out a block. If he/she succeeds pulling out the block, he/she hears the question.

The aim of the game is to balance the tower on top and answer the questions correctly. For each correct answer students get a point.