are you a teacher who's frustrated when you get the looks of students that look
like this whenever you're trying to implement an activity that involves
asking and answering a question with a partner look no further and just know
that you're not alone because I have had this happen to me many many times one of
the things that I like my students to do is to learn how to ask a question and
then have their partner answer a question and vice-versa particularly
using academic vocabulary that they have learned in class well I started using
this activity to teach them to do that and they love it and they beg to do it
time and time again because all it involves is a pack of uno flashcards and
a board where they can see centum stems stays tuned so that you can learn how to
incorporate this game in your classroom tomorrow
thank you so much for tuning in and I want to welcome you if you're new to the
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in this video will be included in the description below so the name of this
really fun game only using a pack of uno cards is called who wants and I'm
actually going to link it below in the description so that you can see what
materials that you need which like I said it's just the cards and you're
going to need a board to post certain items that I will go into in a minute
and that's it and your students will be able to play I recommend that this be
played in a small group no more than 6 maybe up to 7 students but probably no
more than that and we played this last week so I'll go ahead and without
further ado show you how this game is played so as I mentioned the name of
this game is called who wants and the simple goal is to teach students how to
speak in a question using want and also answering I do or I don't the cars are
going to be user all the number cards excluding 0 so you'll have about a total
of 72 cards you can include the wild special card and the wild draw four
special card to set up the game you want to have on the board write the numbers
one through nine in list form next to the numbers you're going to write common
nouns for example one will be a car two is piano in this case but you can also
use more sophisticated academic vocabulary words and even content
specific vocabulary words next you're going to write the four colors that
correspond to the uno cards and next to them you're going to write the
adjectives in this case blue was big green long red hot & yellow expensive
after you have ensured that you do not have the number 0 in that deck of cards
you're going to shuffle them and then you're going to deal 7 cards to each
student and after you have dealt those cars the rest of the cards will go
facedown in the middle of the table students will look at the cards and lay
down exact pairs the pair's need to be a number and color students will choose
one of their cars and ask the other students in general if someone wants the
card for example student a will choose a green too and ask who wants a long piano
if a student wants the card to complete a pair they will respond by saying I do
and the asking student will give them the card students cannot take a card if
it doesn't complete a pair if no student wants the card in question the asking
student draws a card from the pile the student with the most pairs at the end
of the activity is the winner I would make sure that you practice along with
your students ahead of time to make sure that they can pronounce all the words
and they know what the words mean within context so that the game will be played
fluidly and will be a lot more fun for them to play and that's how the uno game
is played I really hope you enjoyed it my students really enjoyed having me
record them so that you can implement this game in your classroom please let
us know in the comments section below how it went and also if you use uno for
other activities to get your students listening speaking reading and writing
as always tune in next week and I'll be posting a new video tips and strategies
for to use in your classroom thank you and see you next week bye bye